Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast @goatwildernesscollective@librem.one

Have been playing with #Droidian this evening on an old Google #Pixel 3aXL. Overall very impressive. Initially I tried #UbuntuTouch but found it too locked down for my particular use case.

There are still a number of wee bugs with the OS, but overall it is very impressive - and far better than Ubuntu Touch.

Have any of you experimented with it?

apple shouldve branded their VR headset as a kind of headphones, but for your eyes. call em the apple eyephones

When splitting phosh-osk-stub out of #phosh one of my goals was "use it from day one". This required to hack in a virtual-keyboard driver so Electron apps (and other apps that can't deal with text-input-unstable-v3) can fall back to "emulated key presses" instead of using an input-method.

Prompted by input from Kai Lüke who (rightly) pointed out that the German layout was missing symbols in virtual-keyboard mode I revisited the situation and we can now handle more languages:

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Dear @junocomputers if you sell computers and use Free Software Operating systems it is not o.k. to assume you can free ride on community support.

It makes me sad to have mails from users in my inbox that are stuck with an unusable device on a Sunday and are seeking help to get it going again. This is your job.

Please listen to your customer's issue. If it's a software issue in the latest upstream version forward it with a good description.

Screenshot is from https://junocomputers.com/product/juno-tablet/

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@droidian Congratulations! I noticed you didn't update phoc. Is there an issue with switching to newer wlroots or just: we didn't get around to it? For the moment this shouldn't be a problem on phones.

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#nothoughts #catsofmastodon

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A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#113 Numerous Updates
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2023/09/twig-113/

#GNOME #TWIG

Progress in supporting Indic languages in phosh-osk-stub:

- merged initial completer support for Indic languages based on libvarnam earlier this week
- have an MR to switch from libvarnam to more modern govarnam (thx @subins2000
- @arunmani is looking into making all the possible completions available
- have an MR to allow to switch between different completion engines automatically (e.g. use #hunspell for Us & De and #varnam for #Malayalam (see video below)

#phosh #LinuxMobile #gtk

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I don't really share my tattoos on social media, but this one seems fitting for mastodon :-) done by my fiancé (as are most). Nice way to play around with colour transitions and lack of outline. Really happy with the result! #Debian #tattoo #colours

it's called a man page because it won't shut up about stuff you already know and doesn't actually have the answer to your question

phosh 0.31.0 is out 🚀📱:

Lots of fixes in #phoc ➕ better xdg-activation ➕ less CPU usage ➕ animations on tiling/max

#phosh now supports the tablet-mode of convertibles (based on work by Jonathan Hall)

p-m-s allows to configure the notification priority for waking up the screen (thanks to Suraj Kumar Mahto).

libcall-ui switched to GTK4 thanks to @antonok.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.31.0/

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

I have been enjoying @somafm so much, that I picked up the iOS app. It has very nice UI and a lot of neat built in features. It is totally worth downloading.

There is a long standing issue in #phoc (the #wayland compositor used with #phosh (but as I recently learned also other projects like #bananui) that makes windows flip their size when crossing a screen edge (as tiling is (incorrectly) kicking in). This makes dragging windows around in docked mode harder than necessary.

This is about to improve and (thanks to the ground work over the past months) we can also add some visual feedback:

Turns out love was a zero interest rate phenomenon

it's cute when websites think I would turn off my ad blocker rather than just leaving the page

Whenever you see the words “ads”, “cryptocurrency”, “blockchain”, “web 3”, or “AI”, just replace them with “farts” and you’ll know whether you want them or not.

“Can the fediverse survive without farts?”

Yes, perfectly well.

“Will farts replace people?”

I hope not.

“The European Commission embraces farts.”

That’s unfortunate.

“This new startup wants to improve your life with farts.”

I’m good, thanks.

#SiliconValley #BigTech #farts #buzzword #bullshit #ads #adtech #blockchain #ai #web3

A new #GTK stable release is out! Lots of changes for 4.12:

- list views can have sections
- accessibility improvements
- multiple fixes for the Vulkan renderer
- better support for GLES2 in the GL renderer
- fixes for Windows and macOS
- new support for various texture formats

and tons of bug fixes.

Ever wondered why the websites in browser demos always look so good? Spoiler alert: It's because they're all fake!

Try going to https://hchs.school, https://mmmhome.io, or any of the other domains in the screenshots below, none of them exist.

Feels emblematic for the state of the web in general. Real websites are so full of popups, toolbars, and other cruft that people create their own to make their browsers look presentable.