DanielTux @danielst@librem.one

LXQt 1.0.0 Desktop Environment Released After 8 Years of Development, This Is What’s New

https://9to5linux.com/lxqt-1-0-0-desktop-environment-released-after-8-years-of-development-this-is-whats-new

#LXQt #desktopenvironment

...and here's the same thing using #phosh. Needs more work and polishing but just to give an idea. It works pretty well with thumb only too but that's hard to record.

Amazing, @ManjaroARM with #phosh runs @threemaapp Threema Desktop perfectly fine. It currently still needs a phone running the real app but soon ™ it will be transformed into a **standalone** Threema Desktop version, finally bringing Threema to the #pinephone ! 🎉
Also, really cool to now have a GUI for VPNs!

Me: Oh, @penpot sounds good, let me see what it’s like…

*goes on site*

“Login with Google”

*alarm bells*

Hmm, who funded this?

*searches*

Venture capital firm (Kaleidos Ventures SL)… how interesting that their site never once mentions an exit even though that’s how venture capitalists make their money…

So, yeah…

Don’t you just love “open source?”

(And how it doesn’t mean “free as in freedom?”)

#design #openSource #freeAsInFreedom #ventureCapital

To carry a smartphone from big tech is now to carry a passive surveillance device on your person. You are paying a thousand dollars to have your privacy violated. its why you should choose a device from @purism as you dont have to trust purism at all you can trust the code as it should be (i do trust purism by the way but just saying). so stay away from all things google and the all seeing i. https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i

Wow, sehr gute Werbung von der UN zur #Klimakrise 👌
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RT @JonnyGeller
As ads go, this is pretty punchy. Oh, it’s by the United Nations.
#COP26
https://twitter.com/JonnyGeller/status/1454568962516267011

Instead of #phosh I'm using a test client to hack on #phoc's gesture support. The red bar basically maps to phosh's top-panel. Red meaning `folded`, green `moving` and blue `unfolded`. The first prereqs for this are already merged and I hope to submit more over the next weeks. Animations need more work as does cancelation, etc but it's moving forward. The way it's implemented works for other kinds of gestures too and also for mouse and laptop touchpad gestures.

"Some AI things..."

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In Baden-Württemberg (@KM_BW) wird eine gesamte Schule zur Apple Distinguished School und so Bestandteil des Bildungsmarketing des US-Konzerns & auf Anfrage erklärt das zuständige Schulamt: „Uns liegen keine Informationen vor.“

Und genau das ist das Problem
#Lobbyismus_in_Schule

Jetzt sind auch die Anhänge der Prüfung von Microsoft365 durch den @lfdi in Baden-Württemberg öffentlich.

Die klare Empfehlung zur Nicht-Nutzung wird somit noch besser nachvollziehbar.

https://fragdenstaat.de/anfrage/bewertungen-und-empfehlungen-des-lfdi-zu-office-365-an-schulen/

38% of my bug reports come from the Linux community
My game - ΔV: Rings of Saturn (shameless plug) - is out in Early Access for two years now, and as you can expect, there are bugs. But I did find that a disproportionally big amount of these bugs was reported by players using Linux to play. I started to investigate, and my findings did surprise me.

Let’s talk numbers.
Percentages are easy to talk about, but when I read just them, I always wonder - what is the sample size? Is it small enough for the percentage to be just noise? As of today, I sold a little over 12,000 units of ΔV in total. 700 of these units were bought by Linux players. That’s 5.8%. I got 1040 bug reports in total, out of which roughly 400 are made by Linux players. That’s one report per 11.5 users on average, and one report per 1.75 Linux players. That’s right, an average Linux player will get you 650% more bug reports.

A lot of extra work for just 5.8% of extra units, right?

Wrong. Bugs exist whenever you know about them, or not.
Do you know how many of these 400 bug reports were actually platform-specific? 3. Literally only 3 things were problems that came out just on Linux. The rest of them were affecting everyone - the thing is, the Linux community is exceptionally well trained in reporting bugs. That is just the open-source way. This 5.8% of players found 38% of all the bugs that affected everyone. Just like having your own 700-person strong QA team. That was not 38% extra work for me, that was just free QA!

But that’s not all. The report quality is stellar.
I mean we have all seen bug reports like: “it crashes for me after a few hours”. Do you know what a developer can do with such a report? Feel sorry at best. You can’t really fix any bug unless you can replicate it, see it with your own eyes, peek inside and finally see that it’s fixed.

And with bug reports from Linux players is just something else. You get all the software/os versions, all the logs, you get core dumps and you get replication steps. Sometimes I got with the player over discord and we quickly iterated a few versions with progressive fixes to isolate the problem. You just don’t get that kind of engagement from anyone else.

Worth it?
Oh, yes - at least for me. Not for the extra sales - although it’s nice. It’s worth it to get the massive feedback boost and free, hundred-people strong QA team on your side. An invaluable asset for an independent game studio.

phoc 0.9.0 has been released ➡️ https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/releases#v0.9.0 #gnomeonmobile #librem5 #phosh #gnome #mobile #gnu #linux

I remember the first 8bit trip on YouTube, it was the first video that I saw that was full HD, 1080p - it was amazing

But after 12 years, actually two month ago - Rymdreglage released 8Bit Trip 2!!!!

https://youtu.be/pCm1fKZGvl4

Holy shit, that is all I can say.

It was worth the weight ;)))))))

I just sent and received calls between my SIP account and landline phone using my #Librem5 and the native Calls application, and it was pretty exciting.

"<.*>/gm"

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RT @element_hq@twitter.com

🎉 Element One is here; One chat app to bring your WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram chats into Element.

Don’t burn any more bridges with your friends 🌉 because they're not on Element or Matrix! 😎🪄

https://element.io/blog/element-one-all-of-matrix-whatsapp-signal-and-telegram-in-one-place/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/element_hq/status/1452916182747688963

Sometimes I think about joining every Foundation of things I like and just ask:

"Considering what Google is doing to the world, do we want it in our board?"

(Looking hard at you, Rust Foundation.)