Weekend project: trying to see if I can make my Rabbit R1 more useful.

#ubuntu #ubuntutouch #linux cc/ @ubports

I have some news about upgrading Ubuntu Touch's display stack from Mir 1.x to Mir 2.x. We will, according to current plans, ship a mixed environment where the system compositor (the thing that handles the screen) will run with Mir 1 where as the user's shell would run Mir 2, both connected over a nested Wayland session.

One major roadblock has been tackled and that is "Trust Prompts" permission dialogs, allowing to host the same permission UX as with Mir 1. Watch it in action here!

New podcast episode: Put some privacy in your smartphone! 📣 🎧

How can you use an Android smartphone while protecting your privacy? Who should you turn to for more privacy-friendly Android alternatives?
Can you install Linux on your phone?

With @fla from @Framasoft , we answer these questions!

👉 https://www.projets-libres.org/en/podcast/smartphone-put-privacy-in-your-smartphone/

#podcast #opensource #privacy #eos #iodeOS #calyxos #postmarketos #fairphone #commown #murena #ubuntutouch #grapheneos

RE: https://chaos.social/@delta/116325659705076322

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RE: https://mastodon.social/@fredldotme/116302148279096575

Status update: We've had our first successful call over VoLTE tonight! It's still rough around the edges and not every constellation (inbound vs outbound, UI glitches) works as we want but it's a great start, further than the Halium 9 port ever came in terms of VoLTE support.

If you like what you read here, please consider a donation (https://fredl.me) so that I can try finding a carrier which supports the P3a with VoLTE.

Due to various barriers I've changed my mind and I'm in the process of porting the trusty Pixel 3a to Halium 12. Not only am I working towards a larger system partition size, I also will help folks with VoLTE enablement, which I can't test with my carrier.

This is a little side gig but if you want to vote for higher priorization, I'll happily accept donations to let me know that you *really* want this. Further links at https://fredl.me