leimon @leimon@librem.one

MNT Reform (open hardware laptop) campaign is live: https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform

And here's the Launch Announcement:
https://crowdsupply.com/mnt/reform/updates/the-campaign-is-live

Thanks to everyone who helped and supported us to make this happen.

Reform campaign video shoot is a wrap!

@mntmn hotness

#PinePhone gains FCC and CE approvals, massive strides in PinePhone software, new product ideas, and more: all in our April News Update.

https://www.pine64.org/2020/04/15/april-update-ce-fcc-software-update-and-diy-router/

Your Librem 5 is Calling

Default and pixel perfect. A snapshot of the preinstalled applications on the Librem 5.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhrnMVJDpfs

#librem5 #privacy #security #linux

cool, MNT Reform is now certified as OSHWA DE000017 https://certification.oshwa.org/de000017.html

Thanks to work of @purism kernel team and ongoing upstreaming efforts, getting new kernels to run on the Librem 5 is a breeze! This is #Librem5 running the freshly released #Linux 5.7-rc1 with ~100 patches on top; some of which are already queued for 5.8. #mainline #kernel

We've received our internal Dogwood batch 🎉 and will be sharing news of the hardware changes and improvements to performance, battery life and thermals soon! #Librem5

after intensively dealing with linux kernel internals for 3 days i have to say it is a remarkable piece of software, clearly one of the most important pieces of software that exists.

i could see that there could be a “next level” post-unix but it would have to be a totally different paradigm in terms of programming languages used. linux pretty much maxes out the “age of C” IMHO

Large #MaemoLeste update brings camera and TV output to 11-year old Nokia N900, PowerVR GPU support for Motorola Droid 4

https://tuxphones.com/maemo-leste-linux-nokia-n900-droid-4-powervr-gpu-acceleration-support/ #linux

If you made it this far, thank you! Live posting this felt kind of like having you here with me in while I brewed during lockdown. Also thanks to Grainfather for making my brew day so much simpler and about 2 hours faster!

MNT Reform 2.0 revs 1-3

LPT : forget about the bad news and work on a fun project like @PINE64 #pinetime.

Here's my latest achievement : time synchronization and BLE notification from a Linux computer to the Pinetime.

This is the beginning of a Linux companion app for the Pinetime, yay!

did a first test running Reform 2 from batteries with display on, medium brightness, all cores on, GPU in use by the compositor, low load, mPCIe WiFi active, NVMe SSD active (logging), keyboard backlight enabled, no powersave features in use: 292 minutes until safety switchoff.

so almost 5 hours. i believe this can be optimized with powersave strategies but i think it's quite ok already.

currently turns off if a cell reaches 2.6V. it could go a bit lower, but i don't think for much gain.

I really wanted to skip through songs easily on my #librem5 when carrying it around, so i hacked up a simplistic media player widget for #phosh using the #mpris protocol (wip code, don't try this at home yet)

Wow, that was quick: Thanks to Lucas Stach our #etnaviv runtime power managemt fix already landed in linux-next: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/log/?qt=range&q=ea4ed4a55f7363ad8db1863bd536548fb7e5c6aa..78f2bfa3181cd7ee134274aa17177dd933c69dc1

The fix hits the #librem5 with the next kernel update.

ok it finally works. wifi via ath5k mPCIe card. backlight keyboard. LiFePO4 battery charging. speakers.