JanaMe: I should try to focus on one project, so I actually make project.
Also me: I want to try postmarketOS and oooh, I even have a device here, which could work 
This device has been tested with postmarketOS, but its device package has not yet been added to the postmarketOS repositories.
This means that it cannot be selected in pmbootstrap.
Uh, maybe that would be more work than I'd be willing to invest into that idea right now 
So I just re-realized that I have a postmarketOS-cabable phone here. It's still in the testing category, but according to the wiki most things should be supported.
Well, let's figure out how to pmbootstrap that puppy :3
Or rather: It gives me an error regarding an acer-swing, which is the wrong device, and nothing else.
Internal Storage: Broken
Uuuuuh, oopsie, I might have overlooked that critical part of the wiki 
The cameras work, which is cool. They look absolute ass though, but in a funny almost artistic way.
Otherwise, so far, I hate the Plasma Mobile UI less than Android
The primary issue I have with pmOS on this device so far is that the WiFi keeps disconnecting and I have yet to figure out a pattern to it. And when it‘s disconnected it‘s a gamble whether it will successfully reconnect or not.
Seems a bit more happy with a 2.4G wifi (currently tethering from my iPhone).
And I'm posting this from the device :3
And I'm posting this from the device :3
This is what I'm looking at. The plasma keyboard isn't bad, but I have no idea why the Shift key acts as Caps lock.
Uhm, so I think I have tracked down the source of my WiFi issue. But it's confusing.
If I try to disable Auto Rotate, it doesn't work and just goes back to On.
But after I touched the toggle once, WiFi will freak out.
If I reboot and don't touch the Auto Rotate toggle, everything behaves fine. Been stable and fast for half an hour now. 
Another issue I'll have to figure out is seemingly either a better keyboard or how to setup a custom keyboard layout.
Because currently I have the choice between using QWERTY or QWERTZ but with äöü keys on the board. But I want QWERTZ without those keys added on
Because currently I have the choice between using QWERTY or QWERTZ but with äöü keys on the board. But I want QWERTZ without those keys added on
Oh yeah and a working auto rotate button would also be good, because the rotation is incredibly trigger happy
I revert my statement on WiFi and auto rotate.
It seems to rather depend on the current moon phase or something.
Switched to iwd WiFi backend. Let's see if that helps.
Also, for some reason, had to set EnableIPv6 in the iwd config, even though it should be the default since 2.0 (this is 3.12).
I am currently re-compiling Plasma Keyboard.
I think that describes the Linux phone experience pretty well :D
Yay, I created myself a reasonable german keyboard layout.
Now the reasonable thing would be to upstream that to Qt Keyboard, but AFAIK they currently have no concept of alternative keyboard layouts for a certain language 
(Which is why I now just forked Plasma Keyboard, copied fallback to de_DE and swapped Y and Z)
I tried looking into the contribution guide for Qt and had no idea where I would even go to ask about alternative layouts for a language.
So for now I just threw my little patch into a repo and apply it with a custom apk build.
Gotta say, the abuild system for Alpine is quite nice 
In comparison: KDE seems pretty easy. I made an account, immediately had access to their Gitlab and could theoretically propose a MR immediately.
dmi 💽