Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

I finally got the official #funding confirmation from @PrototypeFund .

Time to gather the needed contacts before I begin with #libobscura next month!

#libobscura is going to be a proof of concept #linux #camera library which doesn't make the same mistakes as #libcamera . I'll base it on @martijnbraam 's work with #libmegapixels .

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#160 Web Happenings
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/08/twig-160/

#GNOME #TWIG

In 2024 Another Attempt To Get The Apple Touch Bar In Good Shape For Linux On x86 Macs

A set of nine patches were posted for review on Tuesday in aiming to get the Apple Touch Bar working well under Linux for the x86 T2-based Macs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Apple-Touch-Bar-Linux-2024

This is my first week attempting to use @postmarketOS on OnePlus 6T as my daily driver. Yesterday was my first full day with the device and it's fantastic! I was running errands, taking meetings out, and using the phone as my primary communicator.

For context, (and this is going to sound brutal, but it's the truth) I've been using a Librem 5 on PureOS as my daily driver since February, so my expectations are pretty low at this point.

In no particular order, here are my main observations so far.

This thing is fast! So responsive and slick. Again, I am comparing it to Librem 5, not iPhone. That said, @phosh performs so well on this device, it really feels like THIS is how it is supposed to work. (This is an aside, but it's a real shame how stuck and abandoned Phosh is on Librem 5, when that was the device it was originally made for.)
Cellular phone calls on my carrier (AT&T) require VoLTE, so I am using this hack (a) (b) to enable voice calls. Some people have reported issues with call audio; I've only noticed call audio loss very occasionally, and they are resolved for me by toggling the modem on and off.
Battery life is good, but not great. I was using the phone pretty heavily yesterday and I needed to top up the battery once in the afternoon. I'm interested to see how it fares on a day when it spends most of the time in my pocket.
Do not allow the device to suspend! Unlike the Librem 5, it won't automatically wake up for calls or SMS messages. And very much like the Librem 5, you won't receive any other notifications while it's asleep.
I'm using Fractal / Matrix / iMessage bridging (c) for the majority of my instant messaging needs. This works great, but the notification integration kind of sucks.

Core notification support appears to be handled by feedbackd (d) - thanks @agx! - which works really well. However, there's no obvious way to link general Freedesktop/libnotify notifications (e) to a feedbackd event.

The practical effect of this is that messages coming in over Fractal are received immediately BUT with no visual, audible, or haptic cues to indicate that they've arrived.

I'm solving this problem right now with a horrible little Python script that watches for Fractal notifications on dbus, and triggers a message-new-instant event when it sees them.

This is working for me right now, and I'm happy to share the code if anyone wants to see it. But I'm sure it's not how things are supposed to work. I would love to hear from the developers on what the "right" solution is supposed to be here.

I'll have more thoughts to share over time, but I'll wrap it up for now. At this point I'm really pushing the limits of what a "microblog" entry should look like.

References:
(a) https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/1878
(b) https://gitlab.com/flamingradian/81voltd
(c) https://github.com/mautrix/imessage
(d) https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/feedbackd
(e) https://specifications.freedesktop.org/notification-spec/latest/

#postmarketos #mobilelinux #phosh #oneplus6t #linux #librem5

📷 New Post From Cliff's Pixelfed 📷

More street art in downtown Winston Salem.

This is on the side of a building and it has supposedly been there for a lot of years.

View on Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/p/CliffWade/726032636067685806

Chess hasn’t been updated in almost 200 years and it’s obvious the devs have abandoned it. The greedy creators took your money and laughed all the way to the bank.

I remember back in 705 AD when chess was fun. Then they started adding stupid features no one wanted like “castling” and “en passant” instead of listening to player feedback and fixing game-breaking bugs. I’ve been complaining for years about the collision-detection glitch with the horsey. The ‘clipping-through-pieces’ bug has been abused to death and the lazy devs refuse to fix it.

Don’t support this awful behaviour and boycott this company.

Google prioritizes profits over privacy by keeping third-party cookies in Chrome. It's time for privacy legislation to put you in control of your data. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/08/google-breaks-promise-block-third-party-cookies

I'm now part of the @droidian project.

Worked on this for properly working auto brightness on phones. But if merged, should be a progress on laptops too.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-settings-daemon/-/merge_requests/374

Good morning

It is 94 days to the election

Kamala Harris for President!

The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12

Linux updates for wife's machine. She converted many years ago from Windows and just loves it and will not go back.

1. It just works.
2. It adapts to how she works.
3. Laptop runs so much faster vs Windows.

My support work is minimal now. It usually consists of the rare 'how do I do this?' question.

New Poll: About 8 in 10 Democrats Satisfied With Harris as Nominee -- Fewer Than 4 in 10 Were Satisfied With Biden

#democratic #democrats

https://www.mediaite.com/news/new-poll-about-8-in-10-democrats-satisfied-with-harris-as-nominee-fewer-than-4-in-10-were-satisfied-with-biden/

Nice work. No notes.

#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #fossilfuels

Starship 30 this afternoon being prepared for possible static fire testing tomorrow.

7/22/24

Washington Is Giving #Tax Breaks to #Data Centers That Threaten the State’s Green #Energy Push
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In 2019, #Washington adopted legislation requiring electric utilities to go carbon-neutral in a decade.

Yet lawmakers continued to promote the growth of energy-guzzling data centers with generous tax incentives.

#News #Taxes #PNW #Environment #Electricity #Power #Government #Regulation

https://www.propublica.org/article/data-centers-clean-energy-washington-state

EVERY TIME YOU TACK-WELD A BATTERY INTO AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE, THE GOD OF REPAIRABILITY AND HARDWARE MAINTAINABILITY COMES INTO YOUR HOUSE AND PISSES IN YOUR SOCK DRAWER

My experiment with non-centered new window placement on Plasma was concluded after a week.

My conclusion: My eyes are naturally resting on the currently opened stuff. Having a window open voluntarily in a place where I don’t currently have anything is hard to predict, and invariably resulted in me having to wait for the window to appear, and then drag it to a sensible place to use it.

A bit annoying on a laptop, absolutely horrible on my ultra wide monitor. Back to centered windows I go!