Lucie / minuteafter another too-long evening of poking at a hanging, complex SoC i'm thinking that maybe i should learn some more useful skills like growing food or making furniture, while it's not too late
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RyanWhat are the real blockers to Linux/Alt Android phone adoption? I'm asking out of a sense of curiosity, not of criticism. If you are someone doing the work, and have insight I'd love to hear it!
It seems the existential challenges are:
1. access to hardware and the rate at which hardware changes
2. Access challenges exist on the telecomm side
3. The Android rug-pull by Google
Current state seems to be:
- Motorola and GrapheneOS are partnering which is exciting but Graphene still has some existential risks on the back of Android
- PostmarketOS seems like a great org but a fair way off from non-technical user adoption / a single fully functioning phone
- Ubuntu Mobile only works on a handful of devices (though the Volla phone is interesting)
- Pine phone struggles in specs
Jan VlugThe Crimson beta version of #PureOS has been released. PureOS is the #Linux operating system that runs on the @purism devices, like the #Librem5 Linux #phone.
Thanks to all who contributed to this, whether as developer, issue reporter, subscriber or otherwise.
"For that purpose, we created PureOS Upgrade. This application walks you through the upgrade process, and in a few clicks or taps, you will have #Crimson!"
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-development-report-january-and-february-2026-beta-released/
Luigi311Thank you @furilabs team for making a phone with good battery life. Just did a 75 minute workout on my indoor bike and logged it all with the #FLX1 Only lost just shy of 20% while connected via bluetooth to my earbuds, heart rate strap, indoor bike. Playing music in gapless, browsing the web in firefox and jotting down notes, processing the hr/bike ble packets and displaying them in my workout app. Great not having "range anxiety" on #mobilelinux hope more devices follow
Guido GüntherSpeech input is one of the missing features in #Phosh's stevia. I had looked at several possible solutions but didn't want to pull in a ton more dependencies into stevia itself.
While looking for something completely different I stumbled onto #vosk-server which runs fully locally but can be talked to via websocket and so I could punch that into the prototype I had already alying around (video has audio):
PieterA YouTuber attempts to use #postmarketos on their Pixel 3a: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePBSXi_nvdM
Looks like there are still lots of little problems. But considering the limited resources the project has, I hope they can get proper EU government funding. It might be our escape from the Google/Apple duopoly.
Installing postmarketOS on the Pixel 3a (Linux)
Felicitas Pojtinger 🌅Alrighty, everything set up for the #GNOME showcase at the hardware bazaar meetup later. A GNOME OS laptop, a #phosh tablet and phone, all connected with each other via #p2panda (via Reflection as a demo), #Nextcloud (calendar, contacts, files) and #Valent/KDE Connect (notifications, clipboard etc.) :)
had another fun hacking session with @cas today, we worked mainly on MNT Quasar/Pocket Reform power saving/sleep/resume stuff. That pushed me to implement a first draft of automatic powersave in the RP2040 system controller firmware: https://source.mnt.re/reform/pocket-reform/-/merge_requests/84
Draft: sysctl-fw: add automatic powersave mode when on battery power and som is off (!84) · Merge requests · Reform / MNT Pocket Reform · GitLab
sysctl-fw: add automatic powersave mode on battery+som off; get current measurements from max monitor chip make sure startup is always fast (by replacing sleep_us()s...
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Luca WeissFront camera enablement for Fairphone 5: sent upstream ✅
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-arm-msm/[email protected]/
Vladimir Zapolskiy developed and submitted the actual S5KJN1 driver upstream (for a different device), so just some dts additions were left for me :)