DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

Finally! I got @postmarketOS with #Phosh running on the BQ Aquaris X5.

Things learned on the way: Don't use pmbootstrap install (without the --sdcard option) on a ZFS system, it may fail inexplicably. Flash with pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs with the --partition-userdata option on this device. Never give up!

Also, the standard kernel does lack touchscreen support, but there is an image on the issue tracker that can be booted with fastboot.

Impressions:
Keyboard tiny, but really fast!

Just made my first mobile payment with my bank app straight from the Librem 5 - via Anbox. The last reason to occasionally boot an Android phone just went poof! :) #librem5 #pureos #mobile #gnu #linux #anbox

Dialect is a cool new translation app available on Flathub and running on the Librem 5. 😄️

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.github.gi_lom.dialect

Set copyright to 10 years

Not safe for meetings

RT @herr_montag_@twitter.com

Wer immer diese Untertitel gemacht hat, I salute you.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/herr_montag_/status/1318548890715643907

A story fuelled by lies, falsehoods and factbending - but even the extraordinary adventures of Baron Trumphausen will eventually come to an end.
#Trump #USA

oh god oh fuck

Ah yes, eNgLiSh

@pernia @GNUxeava @Meeper @Moon @Paradox @PussySlayer @caskd @icedquinn @kumicota @lanodan @matrix @moth @r @sjw @tdemin @tn5421 @tuxcrafting @verita84 @wowaname

> i guess the challenge would be getting normies to try unfamliar things then

That's easy, I think. People sitting there and there's an unobtrusive box in Excel. Most people only do things like "=SUM(C3:C4)". They know other people can do cool stuff. A lot of offices keep a stash of "power-user" books around. Maybe 1% of the people using it will branch out into more complicated scripts, 10% will use cheat sheets for easy tasks. That little box in Excel is a great way to unobtrusively give people a programmable interface, and enough people get curious about the little box that everyone benefits. Same thing with game mods, stuff like that. It's not a coincidence that webshit took off, you have a JS environment everywhere you go. You just give people a little place to type commands or expressions and suddenly the whole thing blows up.

Everything should be like this.

@purism Built a simple virtual mouse for #phosh using #wlroots virtual-pointer protocol so i can navigate the pointer on the external screen attached to the #librem5 without having a physical mouse attached. Useful for e.g. presentations when you only connect a beamer.

RT @KiwiEV@twitter.com

Now, if this isn't the coolest thing you've seen today then you need to close the refrigerator. It's an animation of how bridges were built in Central Europe in the middle-ages.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/KiwiEV/status/1316493212605911040

To ensure your app appears in the Librem 5 PureOS Store, specify the form factors it supports in its Appstream metainfo and desktop entry: http://adrienplazas.com/blog/2020/10/15/specify-form-factors-in-your-librem-5-apps.html

https://spacegooose.artstation.com/projects/mqwWZy

Just found this artist who makes cool spaceship designs out of random household objects, and I love it.

Sci-fi spaceships really can be shaped like anything, can't they.

Thanks for the 1,673 app votes so far! Already at 16% of our 10,000 vote goal!

Help fund the apps you desire with "Fund Your App":

https://puri.sm/fund-your-app/

#librem5 #privacy #freedom #security

@purism And here's the #librem5 connected to a usb-c hub that has a keyboard/mouse connected via usb and driving the external screen via dp-alt-mode. Needs some hacks still but we're getting there:

libhandy 1.0.0 released. 🎉

We released it a bit in advance to let application maintainers update their submodules in time for the GNOME 3.38.0 release. 😀 That being said, we expect distros to ship libhandy as any other regular stable library. 😉

https://download.gnome.org/sources/libhandy/1.0/

RT @GrueneLtRLP@twitter.com

„Wenn der Verbrauch von Tomaten aus dem eigenen Garten versteuert würde, wäre das absurd“. Was das mit #Klimaschutz und unserer Anfrage zum Ausbau der #erneuerbareenergien in #RLP zu tun hat: https://www.rhein-zeitung.de/ar.2158952

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GrueneLtRLP/status/1301423953404219392

By demanding encryption backdoors, Politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security. Here's why: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk
We must fight encryption backdoors around the world. 💪 #privacy #HumanRight

If you need some #debconf20 entertainment around #phosh and #libhandy, watch this talk by @agx: https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2020/DebConf20/13-my-phone-runs-debian-and-it-does-phone-calls.webm

If you think that Linux can move to GitHub or GitLab and still be productive at scale, I want you to read through the MAINTAINERS file in the root of the Linux source tree.

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/linux/tree/master/MAINTAINERS

Every one of those entries has a dedicated maintainer in charge of it, applying to a subset of the source tree. All 3,000 of them. Many of these have dedicated external trees, mailing lists, and policies. Almost all of this development happens away from the LKML. Each of those trees has a path upwards towards Linus's tree, often via other trees and other maintainers, or towards the -lts trees. These trees are not necessarily authoritative either, and the kernel you're running might be its own upstream maintained by your Linux distro, unique from any of the releases on kernel.org.

All of it is based on email. And it *works* to drive the most efficient and largest-scale open-source project in history.