Show threadFossman13h ago

@jwcph @itsfoss You can use Warehouse by @Heliguy (thanks) to create snapshots and restore them on the other device - no terminal required! I used this to restore my #flatpaks with their data on a #Librem5 Linux phone after reflashing #postmarketOS.

https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.flattool.Warehouse

Install Warehouse on Linux | Flathub

Manage all things Flatpak

Brad Linder1d ago

Lilbits: Updates on Pebble, Rebble, and Aluminium (Android + ChromeOS for PCs)

Google’s upcoming PC operating system that merges elements of Android and ChromeOS has a new name… or at least a code name. And there are updates on both sides of the dispute between Core Devices (the company brining Pebble watches back from the dead) and Rebble (the developers who made sure that old Pebble watches were only mostly dead).

Last week the Rebble team made accusations that […]

#aluminium #androidPc #chromeos #danctnix #droidian #duranium #foss #furios #immutable #librem5 #lilbits #linuxmobile #marathonos #mobian #mobileLinux #mobilelinux #openSource #pebble #phosh #pinephone #postmarketos #rebble #sailfishos #smartwatch #ubuntutouch #waydroid

Read more: https://liliputing.com/lilbits-updates-on-pebble-rebble-and-aluminium-android-chromeos-for-pcs/

LINux on MOBile2d ago
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (47/2025): Duranium enters the chat

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-47-2025/

#Duranium #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Mobian #DanctNIX #Phosh #MarathonOS #FuriOS #Droidian #PinePhone #Librem5 #Waydroid #immutable #LinuxMobile
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (47/2025): Duranium enters the chat

This past week: Waydroid 1.6.0 adds native Android notification forwarding to the host, FEX makes running x86 Steam games on ARM phones remarkably easy, the farphone project shows how to repurpose smartphones as tiny web servers, postmarketOS calls for immutable Duranium testers, Fairphone 4 camera produces

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Show threadWilliam2d ago
For anyone with experience using convergence on Linux phones like the #Librem5, the main difference is that while the programs on Android Desktop are consistent between the phone and external display (ie. Your tabs in Vanadium remain no matter on which display you access them), you cannot use the phone as an integrated secondary display.
Show threadFossman2d ago

@NebulaTide @jkn Unfortunately, switching to alternatives is simply not enough; we also need to be unavailable on SMS, Whatsapp and other proprietary platforms.

Using a data SIM on #LinuxMobile, I have managed to onboard many people, over a hundred, to #FOSS messengers. Before when I preached freedom and #privacy, there'd always be resistance. Now people just accept that WA, SMS, etc are simply not an option and they readily hop on to alternatives if they need to reach me.

#DeltaChat #Matrix #XMPP #SignalMessenger #MobileLinux #Librem5 #digitalprivacy #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #e2ee

srinicame4d ago
#librem5 #postmarketos The librem5 is booting into debug shell. I have tried all versions of pmos including edge. I am booting pmos off the sdcard by holding the volume key down during boot. Any help is appreciated
Christian Gmeiner5d ago

This is what happens when you just want to fix a NIR validation in a gles3 CTS 😅

- hack on the NIR pass → give up
- wonder why it even exists
- check the blob cmdstream
- “why are we doing it this way?”
- rip the whole path out: 7 files, +11/-74
- fix an st/mesa bug
- glmark2-es2-wayland --off-screen jumps ~835 → ~874 🚀

→ fewer shader variants + fewer instructions.

#etnaviv #mesa3d #librem5 #mntreform

LINux on MOBileNov 17
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (46/2025): Plasma Mobile 6.5 and new Jolla hardware

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-46-2025/

#LinuxMobile #Jolla #SailfishOS #PlasmaMobile #Phosh #UbuntuTouch #postmarketOS #LinuxPhoneApps #FOSDEM #MarathonOS #Megapixels #PureOS #FuriLabsFLX1 #PinePhone #Librem5
Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (47/2025): Duranium enters the chat

This past week: Waydroid 1.6.0 adds native Android notification forwarding to the host, FEX makes running x86 Steam games on ARM phones remarkably easy, the farphone project shows how to repurpose smartphones as tiny web servers, postmarketOS calls for immutable Duranium testers, Fairphone 4 camera produces

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Show threadphoshNov 16

Warning to #Librem5 users. Due to a downstream kernel
patch automatic brightness can go to too low values resulting in a black screen. You can work around that by setting the PHOSH_DEBUG=backlight-non-linear in your environment until this is revolved. A
possible solution is a one line kernel change.

10/10

That's it, let's see what 0.52.0 brings 🥳

Backlight led uses exponential brightness but doesn't advertise it (#514) · Issues · Librem5 / linux · GitLab

Purism's downstream kernels (and thus likely everyone else) use an exponential mode for the backlight's LED brightness via the ti,brightness-mapping-exponential property (https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux/-/blob/pureos/latest/arch/arm64/boot/dts/freescale/imx8mq-librem5.dtsi#L1450). However the sysfs...

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Show threadphoshNov 16

Automatic brightness can now be toggled from the top panel and when enabled the brightness slider acts as an offset to the current brightness value. We also reworked how it is handled internally taking e.g. the brightness scale exported
by the kernel into account. There will be more fine tuning to this in upcoming releases. #Librem5 users, please check the end of this 🧵for a possible regression:

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