Guido Günther
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I am happy to announce the release of Portfolio 1.0.0!
@amadeus @opensourceseeds And you can put the bee breeding for the pollination of those plants under an open source license too: https://www.apimondia.org/latest/open-source-license-to-enable-the-conservation-and-sustainable-use-of-bee-genetic-resources
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@MissBehave If I had a 2nd chance with mine I'd have practiced gluing on the panel with hot glue before actually doing it. (E.g. using the old panel and glueing it to a flat surface multiple times).
Also for remving: I'm usually too cautious when it comes to applying heat but only if the glue is really hot you can peel of the old display "easily".
Guido Günther
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The #bananui toolkit for #FeaturePhones now has some documentation: https://obp.abscue.de/bananui/bananui
This is just the very beginning so it's still incomplete. Feel free to report problems and suggest improvements! And if you're interested, try writing an application that uses bananui and tell me how far you get...
Guido Günther
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Some exciting news:
With the help of a tester (thanks kyeh!), #mobilelinux though vvmd/vvmplayer ( https://gitlab.com/kop316/vvmplayer ) finally supports Visual Voicemail on all major US carriers!
If you have an MVNO on any of the major carrier, you should be able to easily check if the parent settings work for you. If they do, *please* make an MR in https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mobile-broadband-provider-info so we can officially support more carriers!
Guido Günther
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People think that "It's OK for people to just want technology to work" (which it is) is like saying "It's OK for people to not know things" (which it is). But to the extent that they're saying it to argue against technologists advocating for open technology, it's humanity-defeating and just a fucking strawman.
The technologists are complaining about abusive designs that manipulate people by making the path of least resistance the one that, for example, destroys the concept of privacy.
When you respond to that with "well not everybody needs to understand everything," What you're actually saying is "It's OK for people to be MANIPULATED into maintaining their ignorance."
These companies have worked very hard to create a culture where computers are magic boxes to most people, so the vast majority of users remain vulnerable. You're not countercultural for thinking that's a good thing. You're a fucking mark.
Guido Günther
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Quoting Greg Kroah-Hartman:
"After Android, Debian is by far the largest Linux user, and the Debian
kernel developers do an awesome job of tracking the stable kernel
releases which have been documented to fix 99% of known security issues _BEFORE_ they are known (data produced by Google security team for 2 years straight)."
99% is probably a little over optimistic (there's certainly some fixes which land in stable trees after they are publicly known), but his core argument is spot-on.
@MissBehave Did you do that with another device before? I replaced on once and getting it off with a "heat pistol" was o.k. but I didn't get the glue thin enough so there was a slight gap at the edge of the display after placing the new display.
@admin If it's pmOS stable then I think 0.27.0 is correct.
The tweak setting uses custom CSS (which can break between different phosh versions but did it's job in pmOS well for many releases). As of 0.29.0 it happens out of the box.
There is a long standing issue in #phoc (the #wayland compositor used with #phosh (but as I recently learned also other projects like #bananui) that makes windows flip their size when crossing a screen edge (as tiling is (incorrectly) kicking in). This makes dragging windows around in docked mode harder than necessary.
This is about to improve and (thanks to the ground work over the past months) we can also add some visual feedback:
@admin phosh >= 0.29.0 should handle the notch automatically and move the clock to the side.
@devrtz @kuleszdl I found the student project very interesting as it showed on one hand nicely what gaps there are in the development workflow and documentation and on the other hand how far #libadwaita got us already to make apps easy.
Guido Günther
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Afterwards @agx talked about "Logs and Backtraces". He explains how meaningful issue reports look like, what tools you have at your disposal on #MobileLinux and more!
Slides are available at
https://programm.froscon.org/2023/events/2991.html
I was inspired by this talk so much that I freestyled a "Debugging part two" presentation about "debuginfod", a nice tool that you can use to grab debugging symbols over HTTP using the `DEBUGINFOD_URLS` environment variable.
Followed by an small demo of running #phosh nested.
7/N
Guido Günther
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I'm really excited for the next release of geoclue: I have worked with the devs to make it functional with #mobilelinux:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/159
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/155
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/160
and GPS works really well with Pure Maps. This was honestly one of the few things that I have really missed when I left Android.
Guido Günther
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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#108 Sandboxed Images
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/08/twig-108/
@nieral @tzafrir @postmarketOS @signalapp signal-cli isn't packaged for Debian yet: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=926807
@francois I like it too and I even know the artist: https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-wallpapers/-/blob/main/debian/copyright#L6
Looking forward to your wallpaper for PureOS crimson !
@devrtz @jayreding @mobian You can't claim to be a universal OS without phone support nowadays, see https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2022-2797-is_there_hope_for_linux_on_smartphones - so running it on your phone is the new normal.
@purism Digitial media is a mess by my record collection is top notch!
Guido Günther
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@agx That's a nice wallpaper you have there! 😉
