Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

Looking at my profiles, it's funny how dead Bluesky feels compared to Mastodon and the Fediverse. There's barely any interaction on my posts - and most of what's there comes from accounts bridged from Mastodon anyway. Hashtags don't seem to do anything.

It still does better than Twitter though 😂

@valpackett @postmarketOS I lucked out, as USD exchange rate was extremely convenient at the time and I had just finished a summer project and received money that almost exactly covered the Freerunner's price 😁

@camelCaseNick @postmarketOS I think it's just a matter of pmOS gaining some wider recognition these days, I don't think it's intentional. The only past project in this space that was similarly well-known was perhaps Openmoko, but its nature was a bit different.

SHR also targeted some Android phones, but it never really went far with them. Today's hardware ages much slower and is much more similar across brands than it used to 15 years ago, so it's easier for community efforts to progress.

@postmarketOS Actually, which project could be considered the first one? 🤔 Let's ignore PDAs as their history is longer.

The earliest one I'm personally aware of is @LaF0rge's OpenEZX from 2005, targeting Motorola's Linux phones.

https://web.archive.org/web/20051029042914/http://www.openezx.org/

@pabloyoyoista @postmarketOS I myself have started at 16yo - and holy cow, this stuff is now older than I was back then 😅

@eloy @postmarketOS I'll be actually doing something like that next week at the local ILFS Day meetup 😁

@deedend @postmarketOS @anjan I'm not aware of anything still maintained that would run on GTA02, but it you want to play with archeology then SHR 2012.07 images are actually preserved by the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20210417044718/http://build.shr-project.org/

@AubreyDeLosDestinos Rok 2002 zadzwonił i kazał przekazać http://www.lesbian.mine.nu/ 😉

@ptrc @postmarketOS It's just because you'll either get "but Android is Linux" or "but Alpine isn't GNU" smartasses if you don't tiptoe enough with your words there 😂

Seems @postmarketOS is now successful enough for some people to think it was the first community-run GNU-like/Linux distro for phones.

Let me remind you that SHR would turn 17yo this year, and it wasn't even the first one. I bet some #postmarketOS contributors are younger than that 😄

#mobilelinux

@marmarta Yeah... Last year I wanted to get behind the Linux Mobile stand to help, lasted about 3 minutes and noped hard 😂 I did plenty of expo booths in my life, but that one was wild. Some FOSDEM buildings seem friendlier for stands, but in some you just end up with this crowded street market energy.

I remember when the first #Blender Open Movie Project was coming along almost 20 years ago - and today I just came back from the cinema having watched a movie that I only incidentally learned was completely made in Blender 🐈‍⬛

"Flow" was so intense though, I wasn't prepared for that 😭