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Steam has refused to issue me a refund for Rocket League, after the developers announced they'd be dropping Linux support.

A recent article on a big tech news site included this phrase:

"[...] Linux phones like the PinePhone, [...]are full of closed-source firmware from non-open components"

We'd like to clear the record: The #PinePhone has two blobs -- neither runs on the main SoC: One loaded to WiFi/BT module, other enclosed within the cell modem. In the modern world of tech, both blobs are unavoidable.

For an overview from someone with deep knowledge of both the PinePhone and Librem 5: tuxphones.com/yet-another-libr

More worrying for me: what happens to the data if one of these DNA companies fold? It's a valuable asset they will be tempted (if not required) to sell. Think of the well-funded companies who would line up to buy it...

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Ever wanted to develop apps for you phone using your favorite desktop tools and frameworks? This is how easy it is puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-ap

Just posting from a Librem 5 Birch and grabbing a screen shot.

The devkit driving it's internal panel via DSI and an external screen via HDMI at the same time.

I'm planning a homebrew 🍺 computer build. The first part has arrived, manufactured in October 1983, the increasingly rare MOS 6581🎶 #WimpysWorld wimpysworld.io/30bLERL

It's been a busy weekend! The first part of "Building responsive apps for #Linux smartphones with #GTK and #libhandy" has just been published, covering:

- setting up a Gtk+libhandy dev environment
- creating your first *responsive* GTK app
- bundling as #Flatpak for deployment
and more

You can find the tutorial here: tuxphones.com/tutorial-develop

Nexus 7 merge request for mainline kernel is ready for @postmarketOS . Originally shipped Bluetooth 3.0 in #Nexus7 is real BT4.0 chip and works well with 4.0 and 5.0 headphones. Today was a good day.

's based compositor phoc now implements the necessary bits of the gtk-shell protocol to raise applications from the background when activated.

The video shows how the shell activates Settings multiple times while another application (the terminal) is in the foreground. The slight delay is caused by Settings taking a moment to figure out it's already running (source.puri.sm/Librem5/gnome-c)

This is part of phoc 0.1.5 (0.1.5 (source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/-/).

This is amazing! We want to thank to @PINE64 for providing us with a #PinePhone dev. Kit. We will begin working on putting #Nitrux on the device 🤩🤩🤩

Update: I just received my first inbound spam call! I can't wait until I get one of those scam calls from "Apple support"...

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Attention new #PinebookPro owners: if you have not already, we heavily recommend flashing the updated keyboard/trackpad firmware.

forum.pine64.org/announcements

Had a chance to work a bit more on @pine64's #PinePhone. Its coming along nicely if I say so myself.

#PlasmaMobile
#ManjaroARM

Overheard someone at the Target return counter returning a gift because they thought it was creepy that it listened to them. There's hope.

Can you code in #python? Maybe even know #pyqt5?
If so, we would really like your help converting our Manjaro ARM Installer #bash script into a working GUI installer using pyqt5.

It should be able to do what the bash script does, just with a nice GUI, so it would be even easier to install #ManjaroARM.

Interested?
Please DM us.

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