Purism @purism@librem.one

Educational institutions of all levels should use and teach #FreeSoftware because it is the only software that allows them to accomplish their essential missions: to disseminate human knowledge and to prepare students to be good members of their community. https://u.fsf.org/1dz

I finally have a break from work to demo the Librem 11 again. I was impressed with the quality of the decryption screen and haven't seen pics online anywhere so I thought I would share that here. There are many things to love so far.

#purism #librem11 #linuxtablet #linuxmobile #linuxphone

WTF Google Play?
You're drunk, #PlayProtect. Go home!

"Harmful app removed. #KDEConnect. The app is fake. It can steal your personal data, such as banking info and passwords."

@kde ftw
#DeleteGoogle #KDE

A new blog post:
A Picture Book of some of the Apps on Mobile Linux.

https://kosmosghost.github.io/posts/a-picture-book-of-some-of-the-apps-on-mobile-linux/

#mobilelinux #linuxmobile #mobilelinuxapps.

To give you a sense of what we talk about: all patches in these folders are those we carry in Mobian.
https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/devices/kernels/sunxi64-linux/-/tree/mobian-6.1/debian/patches

Mobian started as a hobby project, triggered by the excitement of finally being able to hack one’s mobile phone at will. It is fair to say that the device that made it possible back then was the original PinePhone. However, after running once again into the same difficulties we experienced over and over, we’re wondering whether maintaining support for this device is still worth the effort…

https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/09/30/paperweight-dilemma/

@eickot @purism @mobian

No, please read: https://blog.mobian.org/posts/2023/03/07/porting-to-new-devices/

@gecko @tootbrute @KinmenRisingProject The real difference there comes from @purism having kernel devs on their payroll: in terms of hardware parts, IMHO they didn't make obviously better choices when looking only at the "software support" aspect (heck, even they ended up with a downstream driver for the wifi cards they initially shipped)

I never get tired of posting my phone running on the latest stable kernel. Props to @purism for doing all the hard work to maintain the #librem5 kernel and making it easy for @mobian to use it!

@eliasr I don't think anybody is doing the backporting to byzantium atm. Crimson has recent packages (but I wouldn't recommend Crimson for every day phone usage yet). For experiments `l5-fetch-next phosh` gives you current phosh (+next patches) on byzantium (that's what I'm using to run recent phosh on my daily device).

@cassidy @mort When running #phosh just add the notch info to #gmobile and you're done.

For fullscreen apps this needs Wayland protocol support. This is work in progress (but the compositor already uses the same info).

A gnome-shell extension could just pick up the same info.

See https://phosh.mobi/posts/notch-support/

@kosmosghost @purism Phosh is using a lot of GNOME technologies and we consider us part of the GNOME community/ecosystem but phosh doesn't use gnome-shell so its extensions won't work. There's extension points for e.g. lockscreen plugins though (and more planned for e.g. quick settings).

Good news everyone! The gPodder media RSS reader / podcast client / podcatcher had a bugfix release (3.11.3) last week (subscriptions to youtube user ID URLs now work, yay!).

I also made a release of the adaptive UI version for all your portable podcast needs on #mobileLinux. Get it from #flathub: https://flathub.org/apps/org.gpodder.gpodder-adaptive

#RSS #podcatcher #LinuxMobile #gPodder #podcast

phosh 0.32.0 is out 🚀📱:

More fixes in #phosh and #phoc ➕ allows to reorder lock screen plugins (thanks gauthamx@mastodon.world) ➕ improvements in phosh-osk-stub's virtual-keyboard mode in non US layouts (e.g. for electron apps) and initial #varnam support for Malayalam.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.32.0/

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

That's a concept of funny ads I have been working on lately for the #Librem5 by #Purism

Here are some photos of the Librem 11 that just arrived today. I ordered on day 1, hopefully this helps people understand the scale of the device -- see #steamdeck comparison.

My initial impressions are extremely impressed but I am pretty easy going considering I really like the pioneering in the #linux space by Purism. I'll write upore on my other account soon.

#purism #librem11 #librem5 #linuxtablet #linuxmobile #linuxphone