@williamtries If only I knew myself yet 😭 I do have an idea for a talk that I could submit, but not yet sure whether I'll manage to prepare it and travel there, we'll see.
@lxskllr @kolombiken You absolutely can incrementally update, it's just Android that isn't made in a way that would support it. It's a property of the software.
Excited to announce that the FOSS on Mobile devroom returns for #fosdem 2026! 🥳
Communities from multiple Linux Mobile projects come together there and hold talks about what was achieved, what challenges lie ahead, how we can collaborate to solve them, as well as random interesting things happening when replacing Google's Android on our phones.
If you have been doing cool stuff in this ecosystem, we want to hear from you - consider submitting a talk!
https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2025q4/003687.html
Thanks to @flypig from the Sailfish OS community for organizing the CfP and thanks to @fosdem for having us again!
#linuxmobile #postmarketos #mobian #sailfish #ubports #DanctNIX #phosh #sxmo #plasmamobile #gnomemobile #lomiri
@alextecplayz As if that mattered. If a midrange phone could provide me a better value than my 5yo Librem 5, I'd be happy to switch. As it is right now it still allows me to painlessly browse the Web, or buy train tickets, or get on with my daily life. I do miss some stuff in its specs, but upgrading its RAM or GPU are rather low priority entries on my wishlist.
It's not going to get younger and the world around it keeps changing. It will require an upgrade some day. Not today though, not yet.
@c-elegans.bsky.social Jeden z trzech kawałków nagranych w Nowym Jorku - obok "Golly Gee The Ball is Rolling" i "What For?".
@maryjane That's interesting, thanks for posting! Is the blue one the longer one? Were both set to the same reporting frequency? (1Hz on L5 by default). BTW. Can OP6 use all of GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou at once?
@rysiek @mebbie I believe that some people who are capable of moving away from Android haven't done so yet, for whatever reason. Sometimes they may be capable, but unwilling to give some convenience away - and using Android in a society that expects you to use it is surely more convenient. It's up to them to take action to make things better, not "manufacturers".
There are also many people who aren't, but you can't expect those to move yet. Obviously. We still need to pave them the way there.
@rysiek @mebbie You're attributing things to me that I've never said. That's pretty damn un-excellent.
Would I prefer it to be an open platform? Of course I would, but it never really was, otherwise we wouldn't have this discussion right now. It was made to make this possible. We can't rely on Google keeping it "open enough" and we can't rely on the society not making it mandatory to use without active resistance, which includes (but isn't limited to) moving away from Android whenever possible.
@mebbie @rysiek The phones already exist; now it's up to users to adopt them and, if necessary, improve them to match their needs.
I don't see Google closing Android down as a threat to me. If anything, it may make more people actually interested in the alternatives. What is an actual threat to me are institutions and companies assuming that I'm running either Android or iOS. As things are right now, I can manage to live without them just fine, but things keep moving in the wrong direction.
@rail Yeah, before LK3 modernization I used to frequently ride between Poznań and Warsaw and I quickly realized that ICs are a better deal than EICs despite the price suggesting otherwise.
@opensourceopenmind @Sxan Sound in videos must be some pmOS quirk, as it has always worked and still works on PureOS.
Have you tried https://source.puri.sm/-/snippets/1223, btw?
Lens corrections are all wrong when zoomed in, which makes it much noisier than it should be at the edges - would have looked better if I had started hacking it up an hour earlier 🤪
@quentin @bart Hey! Thanks for replying and sorry about my ranty tone 😅 I'm just surprised that this got deployed as-is, it doesn't seem ready for prime time.
It's not just about lack of scheme handlers. In my case, Element was being successfully launched... on the wrong profile, giving this nonsensical error message. Same thing could happen with "portable" installations, sandboxed browsers etc. on any platform.
Also, the "device" shows up on the list even when the token never reached the app.
Just an random FYI: some streaming services like dropout.tv don't require any kind of #DRM to play. As a matter of fact, you can watch episodes from Dropout on a #Librem5 using #PlasmaMobile 's #angelfish browser.
(Not officially endorsement of Dropout, just stating that not all streaming services require proprietary apps / DRM)
Seems like for the first time in 11 years, I may be asleep during the Time Warp today. Good night! 🛏️💤
(in case you wonder what else could I be doing: https://itch.io/c/1205039/0h-game-jam )
Tonight I’ve been digging into making dEQP-GLES3.functional.depth_stencil_clear.depth_stencil_scissored_masked smaller command-stream-wise - and hopefully faster too.
Turns out GPUs with BLT can handle scissored and masked depth/stencil clears without firing up the full 3D pipeline. I finally figured out which clear bits to set.
The coolest part? etnaviv will be the first Mesa driver to support scissored and masked clears! 🎉
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