@Satiah Being able to have a Linux phone is a goal that had been achieved many years ago already. Now it's all about making it even better 😉

@claudi I don't remember what the state of the images marked as "alpha" was, but I don't expect any upgradability issues in images generated from the current repos. Also, I performed an upgrade from Byzantium - the last time I flashed this phone was in early 2021, I'm not a fan of reinstalling from scratch 😜

So PureOS 11 (crimson) on Librem 5 has become daily driveable, as evidenced by me upgrading the system of my daily driver to it and not having much to complain about. From oldoldstable to oldstable - heading towards modernity one step at a time 😂

@LukaszD Nie, kolor nie. Ale które fotele zostały wolne już tak 😜

@LukaszD Zależy w której klasie, czy jadę sam czy z kimś, jaki tabor obsługuje skład...

My work on mainlining the #Unisoc UMS9230 SoC has reached a point where the usability of most features is limited by proprietary firmware blobs running on other processors (the camera being a notable exception). I am wondering whether it makes sense to write kernel drivers for them at all or if it is better to work on an open-source reimplementation of the firmware.

Thankfully, the #Jolla C2 provides the freedom to replace most of the coprocessor firmware. 1/4

Kind of frustrating that serval gaming outlets are calling the Oct 28 release of Death by Scrolling a "Windows PC" release while totally ignoring (forgetting) it also includes the native Mac and Linux. We worked hard to fully support all three platforms.

To even build your own Android image you need to jump through a bunch of hoops, download hundreds of GB of source code and take >1 hour on even a beefy build machine with ~100GB of binary artifacts. There ARE benefits to having the entire OS source code locally IF you're building an OS the way Google do with many separate teams who work independently.

But this is never how healthy FOSS projects work, they rely on individuals showing up and working in harmony together, something which is just plain annoying to do with AOSP.
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A little more than 2 months after Debian, we’re finally releasing Mobian Trixie as our new stable release! We’re also taking this opportunity to start rotating the PGP/GPG keys we’re using for signing both our images and package archive.

You can read more on our blog: blog.mobian.org/posts/2025/10/

@qcoolka Epiphany, ewentualnie Firefox gdy coś nie działa.

phosh 0.50.0 is out 🚀📱:

We have some new features, quality of life improvements, (a bit more than usual) under the hood work and 🐛 fixes, check out the full release notes at
https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.50.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵

🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #Librem5 #PinePhone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

@pecet Też nie umiałem, ale nie zraziło mnie to gdy potrzebowałem i już coś tam nawet umim.

@PabloveSky Odnoszę wrażenie, że ostatnimi czasy "komedią" określa się wszystko, co ma w sobie choć jedną scenę z potencjałem na podniesienie kącików ust.

@alaraajavamma @mrakmm Neither Stevia nor Squeekboard work on GNOME Shell - it doesn't implement the required interfaces.

@gryzor @bart @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg Weird, somehow I've been successfully making and receiving phone calls with GNU/Linux on various devices for the last 17 years... 🤔

@zak There's no such requirement. What you probably mean is that plymouth requires a keyboard, but you don't have to use plymouth for decryption passphrase and there are several on-screen keyboard implementations out there that can be used instead.

@agowa338 > It is quite reasonable to expect it to "not be that simple" especially when it existed for 5 years by now.

There are so many things I have worked on in mobile GNU/Linux (cameras included) that weren't done for several years that turned out to be just a case of "nobody has looked deep enough at it yet" that it's generally safe to assume you'll be able to do *something*, and even if not then figuring out why it's not the case is still a valuable outcome 😛

@agowa338 That's why I'm talking about hacking on existing ports so much. It gives tangible results right away while operating in the same knowledge space.

@agowa338 But there's no equation there yet. Your job is to come up with one 😜

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