Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

@Blort Which one do you want to see?

It's still using a very basic debayering method of 2x2 superpixels, so it has its dimensions halved and produces false colors at contrasting edges. I'm going to put a better demosaicing algorithm in there, but will have to see how much higher output resolution will influence performance before making it the default.

I think he's enjoying his win.

#cats #cat #caturday #catsofmastodon #shotonlibrem5

Yup, and we have a winner it seems! Congrats, Mostly White Guest!

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I think it may be slowly turning into a napping contest

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BREAKING: We have a guest who appears to be into staring contests. Awaiting results
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@mariusor @mkljczk I think we would know it by now if that was how they approach it. It would be quite an undertaking and something to brag about loud.

@mariusor @mkljczk Ah okay. The emoticon made me suspicious but the fact that you linked to it convinced me otherwise. I think there's enough people out there who could genuinely mean it unaware of differences, so better to be cautious ;)

@mariusor @mkljczk I believe there's not a single well-supported phone in this family of SoCs (MediaTek Dimensity) so I don't know what makes you think this one will be an exception.

@mkljczk Librem 5? Though I'd rather recommend PureOS on it, pmOS isn't as focused and may lag with some hardware quirks handling (but then making it catch up is rather trivial compared to most other hardware).

PinePhone for a cebula option, but you'll feel that you had cebula'd with it.

From what I heard OnePlus 6/6T may be a sensible choice too if you're willing to give it some leeway, but I have no first-hand experience. A handful of others is apparently slowly catching up too.

@AAMfP @janvlug (to not be misleading, it was actually 18 years and I did carry an additional second-hand Android phone around 2017-19 when N900 got too old to act as a proper smartphone, so under ideal market conditions it would probably be 4 phones over that time actually)

@AAMfP @janvlug Out of curiosity, how often do you replace your phone?

I wonder if that's something where that "don't want to spend more than 200 €" comes from. Over the last 20 years I have only used GNU/Linux phones and they have all cost significantly more than that, but there were only three of them (plus some spare parts) so they may have actually been cheaper than the average overall.

@janvlug @codo BTW. I do have a plan to make it be dealt with automatically on stock PureOS with minimal negative impact, just bear with me for a while still as unfortunately I only have two hands and one head and need to sleep at times 😁

@janvlug @codo It's a modem firmware bug that we have no control over. There are workarounds with various tradeoffs, you could put a watchdog for it too. In practice, for me it's only a minor annoyance since flipping the switch is so fast, but I can see it being disruptive for certain use cases.

Fortunately the modem is easily replaceable so we won't be stuck with this forever.

@jajo @janvlug Here in Poland there is one kind of instant payments that can't be done without my bank's mobile app (Blik) - but their Android app works fine in Waydroid.

Some banks around the world require platform attestation which is extremely user hostile though. If your bank is among those, you should complain to them and maybe look for alternatives.

@lazarus @janvlug "using GNU/Linux" on my phone of course, dropped a bit too much to squeeze into the character limit ;)

@lazarus @janvlug You realize that you could have said the exact same thing 10 years ago? It did not begin with the Librem 5.

Back when I started using GNU/Linux, it was at its infancy as a platform. You could develop against gsmd, or FSO, or Qtopia, or Maemo, or... It was a wild west of things that came and went. Now most of the stuff happens under GNOME, KDE and FDO umbrellas, and these absolutely aren't going anywhere within the next 5 years.

(and people use Thunderbird on their phones too)

@lazarus @janvlug Well, that's where we differ in our judgement. Your stance may have made sense 20 years ago, but now the answer is "very likely, yes", especially that these days there's no real separation between desktop and mobile platform anymore.

@lazarus @janvlug Maybe it's just that I see a bigger picture. I've been using GNU/Linux phones as my main devices for nearly two decades now, it sometimes took a while but a successor always eventually came and significantly improved on what was there before.

Sure, having more available options would be good, but if we all just wait until they're plentiful it's just never going to happen.