Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

We are happy to announce the next firmware update 'sn00w' v1.3!
The team has been hard at work since #cccamp23 and it comes with a huge amount of improvements to your #flow3r!

You can install the firmware with our web firmware flasher. No installs required: https://flow3r.garden/flasher/

You can read the full changelog at: https://git.flow3r.garden/flow3r/flow3r-firmware/-/blob/release/1.3.0/CHANGELOG.md

Checkout the video below to see some of the many highlights of this release:

Itch are doing a Creator Day event again. I'm very happy for people to buy my works before/after this so that Itch receive their cut, but I think that this event's framing of supporting creators as worthwhile is very, very important.

https://itch.io/blog/275359/the-second-itchio-creator-day-is-friday-723

A key lesson in 2023 has been that corporate governance models don't matter. The investors always win.

This isn't just from the lesson of OpenAI and it's board versus Microsoft. It's also the lesson of all of the public tech companies whose founders have super voting shares but did layoffs anyway because they had to move the stock price.

Capitalism always finds a way.

There's a whole thread I need to write about reckoning with whether, as a progressive, advocating for more secure software is consistent with my political ideals. Far too often, users must act under a threat model where both malicious third parties and the producers of their software are hostile threats. Secure software helps against one of those but makes the other worse.

Interestingly, a significant chunk of https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/so-you-want-make-raspberry-pi-killer applies to the #LinuxMobile "market", especially the section about software support.
Actually, you could replace #RaspberryPi with #Librem5 in this section and it would still make a lot of sense! Kudos to @purism engineers for that 😉️

Our shared stand together with #PureOS, @mobian, #SailfishOS and @ubports for #FOSDEM2024 got accepted!

https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-accepted-stands-fosdem-2024/

We hope to see you all there! We'll show of some devices running all our awesome software and will gladly answer all your questions and show you all the new cool stuff that happened since last year!

My talk about making an ultra-portable game engine from scratch has been voted the best talk of the GiC conference!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cOqAHzIfQE

I am talking about McPixel 3 Engine that I wrote from scratch in C.

It has been ported to Windows, Max, Linux, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series, PS4, PS5, iOS, Android, Windows 95, Raspberry Pi, FreeBSD, Haiku OS, RISC-V, Windows 3.51, MS-DOS and Linux Terminal.

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #programming #gameprogramming #cprogramming

Be a Petal Hero! My game for #cccamp23 badge is finally starting to become playable 😁 #flow3r #flow3rbadge #gamedev #fretsonfire

Remember @fsfe 's open letter from 1 year ago?

* Users should have the right to freely choose OS & software on their devices,
* which service providers to use
* Devices should be interoperable/compatible with open standards
* Drivers/tools/interfaces source code should be published under a free license

> 3k people signed it. Today it was given to the German parliament with plans to deliver it to decision-makers at EU level too. Thanks FSFE and everybody who signed!

https://fsfe.org/news/2023/news-20231115-01.html

@fosdem developer rooms have been announced!
After a crammed half day of talks on #LinuxOnMobile last time, we are very happy that there will be a full Sunday dedicated to mobile topics around true Linux OSes at #fosdem2024.
We will announce a Call for Participation as soon as it is published. We will coordinate with our Friends at @postmarketOS, sailfish OS, etc to put together something interesting.
https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-08-devrooms-announced/

DOS Subsystem for Linux integrates a real Linux environment into MS-DOS systems, allowing users to make use of both DOS and Linux applications from the DOS command prompt.
https://github.com/haileys/doslinux