Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

@mcc Also, such adapters are pretty much never bi-directional. They're used to connect a USB-C source to HDMI/DP sink, not the other way around. You can't easily connect a screen with USB-C socket to a device with DP or HDMI socket.

@mcc As a rule of thumb, if a USB-C adapter doesn't explicitly mention Thunderbolt or USB4, it's doing DP alt-mode. If it does, it usually can work both ways.

(some cheap no-name chinesium may mention it anyway despite not having anything in common with it, but that's another story...)

@protman @mcc HDMI alt-mode doesn't support multiple screens with a single port. DisplayPort alt-mode does (with recent enough DP version underneath).

But that doesn't matter, because HDMI alt-mode never existed in practice 😜

@mcc @protman Pretty much nothing supports or ever supported HDMI alt-mode, it was dead on arrival. Video over USB-C is either DisplayPort alt-mode (DP over USB-C cable, can be converted passively) or DP over Thunderbolt/USB4 (encapsulated in their respective data protocol).

@djlink Waaay too fast!

@becomethewaifu Makes sense, thanks! It wasn't clear that it's only needed with SB enabled.

@mcc Why does installing non-free drivers require Secure Boot to be configured in the first place? 😬

@Luigi311 Note that the default L5 pipeline is quite limited when it comes to image quality (it prioritizes usability), you can get much further with longer processing or some manual touches - see https://social.librem.one/@dos/111115692731898723 and https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-photo-processing-tutorial/

@razem Mają profile na fedi?

@thcrt The more you look at it the worse it gets.

@KinmenRisingProject @awai @gecko @tootbrute @purism The only way to have people follow your governance is either:
a) to pay them; or
b) to find someone already aligned with what you want to do, and with ability to do so.

Everything that happens for free comes from b). It can lead to strong structures based on volunteer work and mutual trust, but it's *inherently* chaotic, especially when the community is still relatively small.

@KinmenRisingProject @cas @mobian Once we get to the size and level of organizational maturity of Debian, Linux or similar hugely successful FLOSS projects, then things will mostly work on their own: if there's something that needs to be done in Linux, eventually someone pops up and does it, paid or not (though more likely to be paid, in fact!). We're nowhere close to that yet, I still regularly stumble upon issues that turn out to be trivial to fix but that simply nobody looked close at so far.

@KinmenRisingProject @cas @mobian Both Pi and Arduino employ developers that act as stewards for software support for their platforms. Even Openmoko did.
I did my fair share of unpaid development work in the mobile GNU/Linux world across the last two decades; I also had an opportunity to get paid for such work, so I know both sides well:) I wouldn't be able to do half the things I did if had to earn for living with something else as well, and the community is still small enough for it to matter.

@mcc > improved driver support

I'm not sure if you have actually ever looked at your typical Android drivers close enough...