Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

After being kneecapped by a #patents troll years ago, #Mozilla Location Services, the only somewhat trusted (non-Google/Apple) "Wi-Fi positioning system" (geolocation based on triangulating collected #WiFi SSIDs), is now shutting down: https://github.com/mozilla/ichnaea/issues/2065

MLS was how #GeoClue could get a meters-accurate location without a #GPS receiver / sky line-of-sight.

It was used by many #GNOME / #KDE apps to get instantaneous neighborhood-level location (for maps, local weather…) on #Linux laptops.

phosh 0.37.0 is out 🚀📱:

- Wi-Fi selection via quick settings
- Build custom quick settings via plugins
- Caffeine quick settings
- Support fractional-scale-v1 protocol
- Updated #squeekboard layouts
- Improved Sound file and favorites selection
- Hardware specific pages in Tour
- Support notches of 16 more phones
- Support trie predictor in p-o-s
- Support more emojis in p-o-s

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.37.0/

#phosh #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #GNOMEMobile

#Librem5 and notebook sharing the same keyboard and mouse.

Moving the mouse over the edge of the screen into the direction of the other device brings the mouse focus to the other device - just like moving the mouse between displays in a dual screen setup.

The keyboard focus follows. It is like a kvm that is controlled by the mouse position.

Let's #deskhop!

Holy Pangolin Studio make small indie games, animations, illustrations and handmade art. You can follow at:

➡️ @holypangolin

They have an Itch page at https://holypangolin.itch.io

#HolyPangolinStudio #HolyPangolin #GameDev #Art #Artists #Animation #Animations #IndieGames #Gaming #VideoGames #Surreal #Surrealism #Fruit

We now provide nightly builds for Phosh and some related 📦 targeting #Debian Trixie thus making the current development
versions easier to test on Debian and Debian based distributions like @mobian (and hopefully in the future #PureOS):

More details at
https://phosh.mobi/posts/phosh-nightly/

The #KiCad user survey is live! We welcome inputs from everyone doing PCB design:
https://app.formbricks.com/s/clt62soc802ap12xtbfroodc6

The survey should take less than 10 minutes to complete

so it turns out that DisplayPort is "open-source" because VESA (a consortium of multinational corporations) does not, as of present day, have a history of impeding some of the other multinational corporations from releasing some of the related code under an open-source license

that's a pretty weak definition of "open-source", folks

also if you call your HDMI port a "XXMI" port or whatever, the HDMI Forum can't go after you any more VESA can, go wild, everyone does this

Hey if you’re young, pace yourself or you’ll be spending your 30s+ never actually recovering from burnout completely.

Best case scenario you’ll take frequent breaks to try and top-up your energy but you’ll never actually get it back.

Maybe you think “I’m not going to live that long anyway” but you should try to live like you will keep living.

Or maybe you think “if I go at 500% now I’ll be able to afford the rest I need later.” but omfg no you won’t. You won’t make enough for that. You won’t.

Look, I'm famous! Mentioned in this great #FOSDEM talk by @dos https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-3200-universal-serial-bug-a-tale-of-spontaneous-modem-resets/ (at 15:40 into that) where he mentions me and says "...one vital observation... " - I made a vital observation! 🎉 Proudly adding this to my list of things to brag about.

Much of my life may have been pointless but not all of it: let it be known that I did spend a significant amount of time with trial-and-error to find the exact time delay needed for the USB connection to the #Librem5 modem to break down. 😄

I've read a lot online about how "Y2K was overblown". As an engineer who worked like crazy in 1999 to correct our systems this drives me crazy.

Today I read about games going offline, watches getting frozen and airline tickets showing the wrong date.

Because of a leap year. Which happens every FOUR years (give or take).

Yeah Y2K was a once every 1000 year issue.

Isn't 2038 going to be fun.

I kept unlocking the 📱 a lot to check a cars charging status. Using #phosh's launcher-box lockscreen-plugin and the LauncherEntry DBus protocol we can simplify that and have the information easily accessible:

#gtk #EV #gnome #LinuxMobile

KDE releases today Plasma Mobile 6. Check out its renewed base system and apps.

This version comes with a new and improved shell, a new home screen with heaps of new features, enhancements of the base system, improvements in apps like Clock, Kasts and Photos, and much more.

https://plasma-mobile.org/blog/

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#Plasma6 #PlasmaMobile

Just found out that it's possible to donate to Phosh here: https://liberapay.com/Phosh/

Donations there go to the developers @agx and @devrtz

If, like me, you appreciate that awesome #FreeSoftware project and rely on it everyday for your #MobileLinux device, you know what to do! 😉

#phosh @phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #foss #floss #SoftwareFreedom

For those of you interested in our recent video offloading / zero-copy playback work: I quickly put together some #livi #flatpak s to make it easy to test stuff already. Compositor offloading should work on all semi-recent Intel/AMD and a variety of ARM64 devices.

If you trust the sandbox you can get them here:
https://cloud.silentundo.org/s/r8733siTjP4yRJp

I expect quite a few people hitting driver bugs, so please help tracking those down :)

#LinuxMobile #gtk #GStreamer #Wayland #GNOME

It should be 100% required by law that anytime a piece of media gets "tax deleted", the corporation is required to first upload a copy to the Internet Archive.

Are you forced by your #bank to use proprietary #apps? Have a look at background shared on the @fsfe 's discussion list by @floriansnow from a #FreeSoftware angle:

https://lists.fsfe.org/pipermail/discussion/2024-February/013383.html

Florian's questions:

* What's your experience with your bank?
* How do you do your #banking?
* Is there an important angle that I missed?

🏛️ If it’s public money, make it public code!

✍️ 231 organisations and 36517 individuals already support this call for action by signing our open letter!

ℹ️ Learn more about this initiative: https://publiccode.eu

#EUelections #PMPC #SoftwareFreedom