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im Casey, 🏳️‍🌈 queer hacker in Berlin!

#LinuxMobile and @postmarketOS is my jam

I maintain U-Boot for Qualcomm devices and do other cool embedded stuff @ Linaro

#GoVegan 🌱

personal account: @casey

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Websitehttps://connolly.tech

@dalias @fossdd @womble @eigen @mhoye

leftist infighting 🤝 foss infighting

@dalias @womble @eigen @mhoye but it will be essential for legal compliance in some areas? iirc?

@dalias @womble @eigen @mhoye the people you're referring to haven't worked at microsoft in months, since well before this happened

in any case why would microsoft demand this? the PR clearly refers to new laws that plenty of distro maintainers will have to follow , microsoft don't sell Linux for consumers where this would even be relevant anyway??

you're the maintainer of a widely used libc and one that systemd now supports... you can (and imo should) at least try and give them a chance to earn your trust.

@webbeef nm i seee, cool! well this would be one place to start https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Adding_a_new_UI
Adding a new UI - postmarketOS Wiki

@dalias @womble @eigen @mhoye never expected this level of conspiracy posting from you

@webbeef not sure exactly what ur trying to do tbh? i think we already have a cage ui package someone made (could also be generalised)

but yeah new UIs are added by making a ui package and adding it to our repos, pmbootstrap is the best way to test that but you can also just use the alpine process of you want

but yah would need to know more about what you're planning to do

@webbeef @mobian pmb kinda sucks in unprivileged docker for dumb tech debt reasons, but it can still be used in CI pretty easily, there's a CI common repo on our gitlab with some scripts. probably the easier option is just to target Alpine and maintain the package there since it will then also work in pmOS (same way debian packages can be installed in mobian)

Heads up for edge users:

We've switched to Plymouth for displaying the boot splash! This allows screen rotation to work, and to toggle between splash and boot logs by pressing ESC on devices with a keyboard, or the power button 🔌 on phones and tablets.

More information:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/04/30/Switching-from-pbsplash-to-Plymouth/

#postmarketos #linuxmobile

Switching from pbsplash to Plymouth

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

postmarketOS
@teohhanhui truly gross :/
@teohhanhui i think so? they make it harder and more obfuscated with every dang update