Many years ago I spent some time playing with running a graphical interface from chrooted Debian userspace on a jailbroken 1st gen Kindle Paperwhite. I posted a video that showed it and called it "Debian on Kindle Paperwhite". Some tech media had then picked it up and reported on Debian running on Kindle.
I'm sorry, it's all my fault. All those people calling Halium devices "real Linux phones" are just my karma coming back 😭 #mobilelinux
phosh 0.45.0 is out 🚀📱:
There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.45.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵
🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release.
#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile
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How to speed up your phone for free - tested guide, it works!
1. Enable KASAN and other kinds of instrumentation while debugging your phone's kernel.
2. Notice how it makes things slower, but not slow enough to be unusable.
3. Keep using the phone this way.
4. Get used to it and forget that these things are enabled.
5. Many months later, get back to stock kernel config while doing something unrelated and enjoy your newly unlocked extra performance! 😝
#mobilelinux #linux #librem5 #shotonlibrem5
Hi! Help me start my business and expand my shop by buying my first little diy book:) Only until Sunday you can use code QUIRKY15 to get 15% off the book or any purchase above 55 EUR.
Or just use this link:
https://funkypangolin.etsy.com?coupon=QUIRKY15
If you buy a book, I will also add 3 random postcards.
I have only 5 books of this design, next ones will be different!
Thank you <3
I always wanted a simple way to put the phone to silent mode when e.g. placing it on the table next to the 🛏️ . Since Biemster got NFC to work on the Oneplus 6/6T (https://github.com/biemster/pmos-openbox-conky/blob/main/nxp_nci_i2c.py) we can leverage that and have feedbackd's profile adjusted when certain RFIDs are seen (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd/-/merge_requests/154). For this to land we want to move the NFC support from a python script to s.th. like nfcd (https://github.com/biemster/pmos-openbox-conky/pull/18#issuecomment-2653920089). Help on this would be appreciated.
I think some of the replies to this poll are missing the historical importance of wobbly windows and the technological advancements in the open source ecosystem that they represented. I feel privileged and grateful to have been present at the dawning of the wobbly window era.
After a very busy January (for me) I'm back with Indiepocalypse #61!
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@tallywinkle
-Cover by Victoria Clough (https://ladyvictori.art/)
Games by
@dos
and more!
Z przyjemnością ogłaszamy, iż objęliśmy patronatem medialnym tegoroczną serię eventów ❤️ I Love Free Software Day organizowaną przez @fsfe. Z tej okazji zapraszamy na luźne spotkania w Warszawie, Poznaniu i Wrocławiu. 😊
📍 Warszawa
12/02/2025 - 19:00
@hswaw ul. Żelazna 103A
📍 Poznań
13/02/2025 18:00
Politechnika Poznańska, ul. Polanka 3
@hspoz
📍 Wrocław
14/02/2025 18:00
Politechnika Wrocławska, budynek C-3, sala 20
@ASI @hswro
Więcej informacji: https://ilovefs.org/
My Etsy shop is now available! And there is a very limited offer of the original book from the Quirky Owl animation, as well as pages of the book in form of cute postcards. By buying you are supporting the making of the short movie <3
Shop:
https://funkypangolin.etsy.com
Animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6qJWVZb4Qs
Other ways of supporting me:
https://linktr.ee/agata.nawrot
If your country is not available on Etsy, you can contact me directly.
I will be updating the assortment gradually <3
#mastoart
Been recording some profiles to try to explain _why_ my Rust translations of C programs tend to default to being faster.
Here's an unexpected culprit: strlen/strcmp.
The "natural" string representation in C is a char* pointing to a buffer that ends in a NUL (ASCII 0). To determine its length you have to crawl along it to find the NUL. To compare two strings, you need to do the same. In particular, because strcmp's return value isn't just a flag, but an integer giving the lexicographic relationship between the two strings ... it can't early exit if the lengths differ.
The "natural" string representation in Rust is a &str, which combines a pointer and a length. Finding the length is a constant-time near-no-op; comparing two strings for equality can trivially early-exit.
This might sound trivial, but profiles suggest it's a significant factor in wartcl being 4x faster than partcl across the board. In part, I suspect a lot of C programs do a lot of redundant strlen-computation unintentionally.
The recording of "postmarketOS - what is it and what's new?" has been released!
Not in the video: three very nice people in the front immediately holding up their laptops as somebody in the audience asks about postmarketOS on other devices than phones 😀
Check out the other talks from the FOSS on Mobile Devices room too. I saw most of them and they were quite interesting!
@dos @postmarketOS yes I presume OpenEZX might have been the first attempt at open source software for the application processor of a smartphone. At least I didnt know any other such project back then. It sadly never went very far, as several key contributors including I got "distracted" with doing #openmoko - but that was also a good thing, of course
@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/
Coming up next for #fluConf we have another article, this time by @agx
"Phosh 2024 in Retrospect"
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 😄
Hi, I'm dos. Silly FLOSS games, open smartphones, terrible music and more. 50% of @holypangolin; 100% of dosowisko.net. he/him/any. I don't receive DMs.