"Purism is a company dedicated to offering us devices with a focus on software freedom, #security, and #privacy, and it just announced a new desktop PC that delivers on all those fronts in a tiny package."
PCMag https://uk.pcmag.com/mobile-operating-system-2/125313/purism-unveils-librem-mini-privacy-focused-pc
Pre-Order the Librem Mini: https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini
Our partner HKN offers a 3 month free #Nextcloud setup for businesses in the German (speaking) area including video calls, office document collaboration and more! #homeoffice
https://www.hkn.de/homeoffice
Shortwave is a client to listen to internet radios, with a database over 25k radios. It is about to ship its first stable version!
How does it look like on mobile? Gorgeous already. Thanks a lot for the app @haeckerfelix!
It looks like the latest #Librem5 kernel update reduced active power consumption by another 100-140mA based on my own measurements. I hear there are a lot more improvements in the pipeline once we switch from 5.3 to the 5.6 kernel.
My patches for iio-sensor-proxy to support proximity sensors just got merged upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/merge_requests/300 - thanks hadess !
The (mostly identical) code is already live on the #librem5 with #phosh 0.2.0 making use of it.
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.
Apparently when you move a registered Google Fi SIM to a new phone w/o re-registering it w/ the Fi app, incoming SMS have 16 random chars appended to the end. I assume registration causes local apps to hide the text. I wonder what Google is using those strings for?
https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5k3h9t/texts_ending_with_tilde_and_random_letters/
wlr-output-power-management finally made it into wlr-protocols: https://github.com/swaywm/wlr-protocols/pull/61 🚀
Thanks @emersion
for finishing up the wlroots side.
This will allow #phosh to notice screen blanks and trigger them. Compositor part side already done: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phoc/merge_requests/101
Based on @merge 's accelerometer work (https://lore.kernel.org/linux-iio/cover.1569143551.git.lorenzo@kernel.org/) and yesterday's work to hook iio-sensor-proxy into #phosh, enabling rotation is just a couple of more lines of code.
The video shows the #librem5 devkit but it is the same for the phone. Please excuse the low video quality.
Did you know that Plasma Mobile apps from KDE are working well on PureOS too? :) This is Kaidan, a Kirigami XMPP client, working smoothly on a Librem 5 @kaidan @kde@mastodon.technology
Did you know that you can update the firmware of a USB-C cable?
Yes. Cable.
https://usb.org/sites/default/files/documents/pd_fw_update_specification_rev_1_0_20160915b.pdf
I've really been enjoying how easy it is to write simple, useful GUI applications for the #Librem5 and I wrote two posts this week that describe how I wrote a simple screenshot and flashlight app:
https://puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-development-take-a-screenshot/
https://puri.sm/posts/easy-librem-5-app-development-flashlight/
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