Guido Günther @agx@librem.one

Weekly GNU-like#MobileLinux Update (13/2024): Bugfixes and Improvements

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-13-2024/

#LinuxMobile #LinuxPhones #PinePhonePro #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Phosh #postmarketOS #DanctNIX

Heads up for distro maintainers:

gnome-session 46 dropped support for the `--systemd` option.
(https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-session/-/merge_requests/93)

So if you want to use #phosh with gnome-session >= 46 make sure to drop that option from `/usr/bin/phosh-session`. A point release fixing this is in preparation: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1387 . Until then the safest thing is to stick with gnome-session << 46.

Although no Debian stable versions are known to be affected by CVE-2024-3094 the next point release for 12.6 has been postponed while we investigate the effects of this CVE on the Archive. https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2024/msg00057.html https://micronews.debian.org/2024/1711844961.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #debian

Small thing that I have found missing in the current discussion around the xz debacle:

If a project that you have an interest in has already a problem with maintainer capacity, probably the worst solution is to just add a maintainer (and even worse doing it in a rush).

You don't need to arm-twist the overworked maintainer in sharing power, you can just start doing non-binding reviews, answering questions and offloading other work from the maintainer(s).

Do you have an old #PinePhone lying in the cupboard?

Dev versions of #ModemManager now support #GPS without a SIM card. Consumers of the MM API need some changes for this, so I submitted pull requests to #Geoclue (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/geoclue/geoclue/-/merge_requests/173), gnss-share (https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/gnss-share/-/merge_requests/15), and my own simple #GNSS app Satellite (https://codeberg.org/tpikonen/satellite/releases) (all 3 in different languages).

Soon it will be possible to use SIMless mobile phones for things like navigation and fitness tracking.

#MobileLinux

Obvious Firefox is the answer, but if you need a different engine at times, at least use a Debian-based Chromium...

From the latest upload to sid:
"disable/screen-ai-blob.patch: add patch to not register the ScreenAI component. Previously, if you opened a PDF and clicked "open in reader mode", it would download a binary blob to ~/.config/chromium/screen_ai/, and do OCR stuff (and who knows what else) in that opaque blob without warning you. We, uh, don't want that."

https://tracker.debian.org/news/1514077/accepted-chromium-1230631258-1-source-into-unstable/

The first stable release of the new 1.18 series is now available containing the collective fixes and improvements put into all the previous 1.17 releases by the many people who have contributed to Wesnoth over the last two and a half years! For more details see https://r.wesnoth.org/t57843 as usual, or take a look through https://www.wesnoth.org/start/1.18/

There is a need for more contact points (doctors, clinics, etc.) for those affected - and not fewer. Post-viral diseases should also be firmly anchored in medical training. It's good that there are at least initiatives such as Long Covid Austria or the Long Covid Support Group (UK/international), because without exchange with other sufferers you quickly feel left alone by the system. (2)

#LongCovidAwarenessDay
#LongCovid #PostCovid #Awareness

Ability to easily build custom keyboard layouts is really awesome.

Thanks you @agx

#linux #Phosh #squeekboard

shellcheck

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/shellcheck/

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (10/2024): #postmarketOS adds #systemd and #Phosh 0.37.0

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-10-2024/

#PinePhone #PinePhonePro #Librem5 #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS

phosh 0.37.0 is out 🚀📱:

- Wi-Fi selection via quick settings
- Build custom quick settings via plugins
- Caffeine quick settings
- Support fractional-scale-v1 protocol
- Updated #squeekboard layouts
- Improved Sound file and favorites selection
- Hardware specific pages in Tour
- Support notches of 16 more phones
- Support trie predictor in p-o-s
- Support more emojis in p-o-s

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.37.0/

#phosh #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #GNOMEMobile

Excellent technical note on dark-skies-friendly approaches to outside lighting here: https://www.friendsofthelakedistrict.org.uk/lighting-policy

Important because light pollution really messes up insects and birds, wastes energy, and pisses off your neighbours.

Hoping to do something about this locally

We now provide nightly builds for Phosh and some related 📦 targeting #Debian Trixie thus making the current development
versions easier to test on Debian and Debian based distributions like @mobian (and hopefully in the future #PureOS):

More details at
https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-nightly/

New #umockdev release which records and restores SELinux context for mocked /dev nodes, fixes musl compatibility, build with meson 1.4, and some test fixes.

https://github.com/martinpitt/umockdev/releases/tag/0.18.0