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

would anyone be interested in remote access to any of the following devices for the purposes of #Linux mainline development and testing? You'd be able to power cycle the device and boot an Android boot.img (kernel + dtb + ramdisk), I'm also open to using these devices in CI

* OnePlus 6/6T - #Qualcomm Snapdragon 845
* OnePlus 7 and/or 7 pro - #Qualcomm #Snapdragon 855 / sm8150
* Google Pixel 2 XL, 3, or 3 XL - Snapdragon 835 (msm8998) or Snapdragon 845 (sdm845). (Only have one usb-cereal adapter so only one of these is viable right now)
* #Fairphone 2 - MSM8974
* #Fairphone 5 - QCM6490
* #LG G6 - msm8996 (if someone can find UART and find a workaround for the "charger wet" detection being stuck on)
* #Samsung j3 (j3xnlte) - some spreadtrum SoC - Only if you can find UART for me

I don't have things fully set up here but I'm trying to figure out what i should prioritise.

If any of these sounds useful to you then please get in touch with me! I'm especially interested in folks from the #LinuxMobile community, #Kernel maintainers, or anyone else with an interest in upstream Linux support on phones. Please have some kind of public presence in a related field and tell me what your usecase is.

* DM me on matrix - @ caleb:postmarketos.org
* Email me - caleb@connolly.tech

Please boost for reach!

#FOSSMobile #postmarketOS #Android #Embedded #BoardFarm #Testing #CI

@catsalad @emojipedia
You can use the #️⃣Unicode #️⃣ as a hashtag?

How labor intensive! 😹

Yes the 🪗 is certainly my most widely available work 🥰 and it makes me laugh

Currently preparing to collaborate on a #PhonographEmoji that I’d really like to succeed

PHONOGRAPH RECORD PLAYER Emoji Proposal:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DaNNYA1qnSCVZpwrgLx_HAlzq0Sn8UlINbmUeLkUwVw/edit?usp=share_link

🎙️ Had a great time talking to a-wai, @devrtz and @kop316 from @mobian in episode 35 of the postmarketOS podcast.

* Taking a written test to become a Debian Developer
* How to best contribute to Mobian (it does not involve taking a written test)
* Using Librem 5 while traveling around the world
* Planning for FOSDEM 2024

Now available in gPodder adaptive, KDE's Kasts, GNOME Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts 😉

https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/35-Interview-a-wai-devrtz-kop316-Mobian/

#linuxmobile #debian #fosdem

Probably the smallest hard disk drive ever commercially produced, the 0.85-inch 2GB drive was introduced by Toshiba in 2004 and used in the Nokia N91 mobile phone and the Cowon iAudio 6.

There were 4GB and 8GB versions but by 2007 it fell out of use, replaced by flash memory.

https://obsoletemedia.org/0-85-inch-hard-disk/

if you are a bandcamp user, you should make sure you have a local download of all your albums in high quality, because they're in a situation where they may stop existing As Such on short notice

Finally got all 3 native #linuxmobile devices #pinephone #pinephonepro #librem5. Going to have to see how the camera compares on all 3

I scrolled down in phosh today to fast-launch the settings app and change my audio output device, when I noticed a little button next to the volume slider. I pressed it and what do you know, phosh added a handy little input/output audio device selector when I wasn't looking!

#phosh