#vulkan coming to a #halium phone near you! Looks like the #FuriLabs and #UbuntuTouch folks have been hard at work getting vulkan to a usable state.
This opens up all the #wayland vulkan applications that seem to have problems related to GLES.
Should be enabled soon:tm: to the general audience, do note it only works with wayland and not x11.
Here's a short video of the #FLX1 running vkcube and godot benchmarks all running in vulkan!

California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions
While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/California-AB-1856
In the meantime in the land of "free speech" that accuses the EU of censorship:
"Texas woman arrested for Facebook post about town water quality"
https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality
https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-woman-arrested-for-facebook-post-about-town-water-quality
Better late than never: PureOS 11 (crimson) is finally out, catching up with Debian 12 (bookworm) just in time for when bullseye/byzantium lose their extended security support next month. If you're still on byzantium, update ASAP! It's a solid improvement over both byzantium and plain bookworm. 🧵
#pureos #librem5 #purism #gnu #linux #mobilelinux #linuxmobile #linuxsmartphone #shotonlibrem5
❗️The Dutch government wants emergency legislation to crack down on Russia’s shadow fleet in the North Sea, De Telegraaf reported. The plan would allow inspections, escorts to anchorages and, in extreme cases, seizure of falsely flagged ships carrying sanctioned Russian oil. #Netherlands
The new version of Millipixels, now in crimson-updates-proposed, significantly improves the way photos are developed by default. No need to develop the RAWs on your own to get rid of that greenish retro look anymore. Time to update and show off your cats on the fedi 😺
#shotonlibrem5 #librem5 #shotonmainline #pureos #gnu #linux #linuxmobile #linuxphone #linuxsmartphone #mobilelinux #catsofmastodon #cats #camera
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