Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (34/2024): Setup Tours and other fun stuff
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-34-2024/
#LinuxMobile #Phosh #postmarketOS #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #NemoMobile #PinePhone #Librem5
@linmob Cool, thanks! Fascinating to see #postmarketOS continuing to make inroads towards fully mainlining hardware not specifically designed to run Linux (eg the Pixel3A) as well as what's happening with PlasmaMobile and Phosh! Glowup also looks really cool, although it would be nice to actually have it potentially do it's thing directly from one of the camera apps.
Thanks for putting together this smorgasboard of #LinuxMobile news!
@Blort Thanks!
Regarding Glowup and other post-processing things - I've been thinking about (but not communicating to the people who do camera stuff -- cc @dos, @martijnbraam ) coming up with a "postprocess nicely while idle and connected to a charger" - much like an iPhone does for stuff like generating highlight albums or person recognition.
This combined with a low-res, fast preview image generated when taking a picture could be a way to do this on slower hardware.
@linmob @Blort @martijnbraam Martijn also mentioned remote postprocessing some time ago, which makes sense too - my laptop does in 4 seconds what my phone does in 30.
The hard parts are there, what's left is some simple glue. I'm trying to encourage people to do this kind of nice entry-level tasks. Writing glowup.py took me just a few hours of fiddling with libadwaita in total, which would be better done by someone who'd like to learn this stuff and actually take it somewhere further.
@linmob @Blort @martijnbraam BTW. Doing what Glowup does directly from Millipixels/Megapixels is literally a one-liner which you can put there without even recompiling anything. You'll just have to deal with >30 seconds of 100% CPU usage and plenty of RAM being eaten each time you shoot a photo, which personally I don't find to be a very appealing idea 😂
