João Azevedo @joao@librem.one

Just wrote a quick blog post with a few photos of my #Librem5 being upgraded to Mobian / Debian 12: https://jonathancarter.org/2023/06/09/phone-upgraded-to-debian-12/

First day with my new #Librem5:
I am impressed how much already works out of the box. Maybe I will write a short overview about my experience in the next few weeks.
I will try to use it as my main device as soon as possible.

#Purism #Linux #Gnome

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

As far as GNOME Shell on mobile goes, there are some paper cuts.

Please don't report bugs yet, Jonas is aware of them but is working on polishing the fundamentals including touch and gesture APIs.

"Everything you don't like is fascism" - FALSE! Fascism is just a subset of all the things I don't like.

As inscrições para o Freedom Not Fear estão abertas. Bruxelas, 1 a 4 de Setembro, há apoios para a viagem e estadia.

Freedom not Fear (fnf) is an annual self-organised conference on privacy and digital rights. People from all across Europe meet and work towards more freedom in the digitalised world, plan actions against increasing surveillance and other attacks on civil rights. As part of the conference we are visiting the European Parliament in Brussels and talk to decision-makers on EU-level.

Freedom not Fear is being supported by a broad alliance including political parties, professional associations, trade unions and freedom activists and more than 150 organisations that share a common goal.

We want freedom of speech in a digitalised world and a free and uncensored internet to express ourselves.

We want privacy in the knowledge society, not surveillance.

We want to live in freedom, not in fear.

https://freedomnotfear.org/

At the GNOME Mobile hackfest:
GNOME OS image for the Purism Librem 5 booting 🥳

@z3ntu just demoed #postmarketOS on a smart watch :-o

#LinuxMobile

Apparently someone somewhere on the internet has been advising people that they can get "safe" speaker output on their 14" MacBook Pros by cloning the speaker safety daemon and Pipewire DSP and installing both manually.

This is false, and a cursory glance at either repo would tell you that they are absolutely 1000% NOT ready for production, or even alpha testing to be quite honest. There is still a very high chance that you destroy your machine if you don't know EXACTLY what you are doing.

Yes, the daemon is able to twiddle a volume knob. Yes, the DSP repo has impulse responses for the 14" MacBook. Neither of these facts mean that you're getting a safe or reliable experience from the speakers on that machine, or any other machine.

Not all the work we do in this space is public. The daemon in its current state relies on yet to be published patches to the ASoC driver, and the Pipewire DSP relies on patches that have not even been merged upstream, let alone tagged out in a release by the Pipewire devs. Even if you managed to clone and run the daemon and copy the DSP files to the correct locations, neither would work and all you'd end up doing is permanently damaging your machine.

Please, please, please, PLEASE do not follow guides which instruct you to install unreleased/alpha software, not just for Asahi Linux stuff but in general. Best case scenario you end up with an unstable system. Worst case, like what is very possible with this software, you literally melt your computer.

And this is how it looks on a device with notch. Also enabled PHOC_DEBUG=cutouts so phoc renders the bounding box of these.

Finally got to look at this again and instead of just pushing down #phosh's top panel we now place the clock to the left or right based on the available space. The logic is still pretty simple but it covers the cases where we have data for in #gmobile. Will try to land this in 0.29.0.

10 years ago Edward Snowden, working with journalists at The Guardian and Washington Post, exposed shockingly widespread mass surveillance by the NSA. Despite some progress, alarming violations of Americans’ privacy rights and prosecutions of whistleblowers continue. https://freedom.press/news/snowden-anniversary-a-reminder-of-the-need-to-protect-whistleblowers-and-journalists/

just chilling at Praça do Comércio

#lisbon #photography

Guardian: "More than 1,500 arrested at Extinction Rebellion protest in The Hague. Several Dutch celebrities among protesters, including Game of Thrones actor Carice van #Houten."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/27/more-than-1500-arrested-at-extinction-rebellion-protest-in-the-hague

#ExtinctionRebellion
#XR
#Klimaaktivisten
#Klimaaktivistinnen
#Klimakatastrophe
#Niederlande

/Xumut

*drops post* https://blog.brixit.nl/developers-are-lazy-thus-flatpak/

"The only dangerous minority is the rich"
Pasteups in NYC

phosh 0.28.0 is out 🚀📱:

There's quality of life and visual improvements both in phone and docked mode.

Check the release notes for details: https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.28.0/

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

“Until a drag queen walks into a school and beats eight kids to death with a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, I think you’re focusing on the wrong shit.”

- Wanda Sykes

I’m done cross-posting @elementary to Twitter. I really hoped it would get better, but with the latest news of Elon promoting Ron DeSantis’ presidential run, I’m done. It’s become a far-right social network no different from Parlor or Truth Social and I won’t be a part of it.