William @williamtries@librem.one

#Groupgets is great and I love their #FLIR products but the PureThermal OpenMV really takes the cake. I’ve dabbled in FLIR with a 2.5 #lepton lens and a small breakout board but a full handheld open source camera is next level. No need for iOS or Android apps. Includes a larger battery than the mobile FLIR One. If only it weren’t so expensive! I’d rather upgrade my current lens to a 3.5 and double my resolution. Still very cool. https://groupgets.com/manufacturers/getlab/products/purethermal-openmv

Coming to you from my #OP6 running #droidian. Beautiful display for #Phosh and a smooth and snappy experience all around. I was going to drive this over the long weekend but I can't seem to get data over cellular. APN is setup and all but Internet is only available over Wi-Fi. Sounds like a somewhat common issue. May be an Android 9 issue or a me issue. I'll keep at it and post more on this soon. #linuxmobile

Thanks to @lukehod and his Pi-Off code I can now turn my Pi running on solar on and off over Wi-Fi using a tethered #ESP8266. This saves a whole 110mA (minus a few mA for the ESP8266). This should help during those cloudy 🌥️ periods. https://github.com/lukehod/Pi-Off

@LovePoison @droidian Hey! I flashed #droidian to my OP6. It took a while to get it back to OOS 9.1.9 but eventually I got it working. It booted nicely, and I tested the new camera app, web browsing, YouTube, and installing flatpaks. I still have to test the calling and SMS but I’m thinking that will be the best part. A few menus lagged or crashed which leads me to think it may not be as stable as pmOS or the L5 yet, but it will probably get there in time. They’ve had a few years head start.

Exciting times! After mounting my off-grid solar panel last week, I finally deployed the charge controller, pi zero, and bucket of sensors in the weatherproof box today. Thanks to #SerialRenogy, I’m watching all my data come in live on a pretty #grafana dashboard but now that the sun has set, I don’t know if the 12V battery will make it until sunrise…. 😬 https://github.com/MaffooClock/SerialRenogy

@justsoup That is a very long list of dependencies from 2015! Yikes!😬

@justsoup That makes sense. I suspect that some of the best apps are the oldest/original apps. At this point, I wonder if Dekko could run on pmOS. After trying Geary several times, I just can’t trust it with my primary email. It’s too unstable. I know Thunderbird can work well, but Dekko was solid and I really enjoyed it. The GitHub dates from 2015?!? https://github.com/ubuntu-touch-apps/dekko

@justsoup I remember using podbird on my first Linux phone, Ubuntu Touch on a Nexus 5. It was a solid app and easily one of my favourite apps in the ecosystem. A valiant effort on your part to port it over to Alpine but I’m not too surprised it proved more difficult than expected. Ubuntu Touch has been developed for years in a sort of bubble. There are several apps in there that could benefit the overall #linuxmobile ecosystem but I don’t know an easy way to get them out. Best of luck!🤞

Getting an early start on #FOSDEM 2024. Installed #Confy from the #PureOS store. It's an older version sir, but it checks out. Just import the URL of the 2024 schedule from https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/xml #FOSDEM2024 #librem5

Certainly old news for some, but a pleasant surprise for me... #Purism has made reflashing #PureOS on the #Librem5 with LUKS encryption ridiculously easy. Just put the phone in flash mode and run these 4 commands in Terminal:
sudo apt install git python3-jenkins python3-tqdm uuu
git clone https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/librem5-flash-image.git
cd librem5-flash-image
sudo ./scripts/librem5-flash-image
Set the LUKS passphrase on first boot, change the user password, and you're off!

@droidian The pace of progress on the droidian project is incredible by #linuxmobile standards. What’s the secret? Is it a mix of lessons learned from UBports using Halium with vendor kernels, lessons from Mobian running mainline, and then just combining the two together? I’ll be testing droidian on my OP6 shortly and I’m very excited! Congrats on all the success!

I’ve booked my flight and hotel to attend #fosdem2024 in Brussels! Woot! Even better, they released the schedule for the FOSS on Mobile track and it’s on Saturday, meaning I can also attend the Software Defined Radio track on Sunday. I can’t wait to geek out all things Linux mobile. If you’re heading in the same direction and want to connect, by all means message me! #fosdem #linuxmobile #sdr https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/track/foss-on-mobile-devices/

@dos This is great news! Congrats! I’ll be at FOSDEM this year as well and the highlight for me will easily be the FOSS on Mobile track. I’m excited to meet you and all the other mobile devs. I’m also glad that Purism will be well represented on the ground. L5 development has done so much to advance the ecosystem. It probably wouldn’t exist, certainly not in this form, without you. Cheers!

The #DiscoveryDish by the makers of the #KrakenSDR reached its funding goal! If all goes well, a few hundred supporters including myself will be getting our dishes by summer 2024. I can’t wait to watch our planet #Earth live from space! https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish

@kelbot I love Linux handhelds and this one is a classic. Is it also a pencil sharpener? 😀