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bart

@bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com

FOSS enthusiast, postmarketOS developer

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bart, to linuxphones
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It's been almost 5 years but I've written a new blog post again! This time describing my setup for daily driving on after a bit more than a week of using it.

https://fam-ribbers.com/blog/2024-05-05-daily-driving-plasma-mobile/

bart,
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@thejackimonster But there has been "a lot of time and effort to support them properly" done on devices like the OnePlus 6 as well. Difference is that they're good performing hardware and fairly cheap to get second hand.

Also the PPP is lacking from the same software support as the original PP is. Pine64 has imo screwed it up by relying on the community to provide hardware support, they're not worth the money.

bart,
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@thejackimonster Yes they've screwed up. If it had to be more expensive to fund software development, then they just should've made it more expensive. Now they sold a device which was outdated on release with no software support, basically generating e-waste (except for the few that dare to actually use it).

The Librem 5 price (the original) was totally justified, it was just a shame to see no money go to KDE and they instead developed Phosh.

bart, to linuxphones
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I finally decided to get a proper second device to run on, so I bought a Pixel 3A! Fully mainline and is very fluent on it, it's great!

I'll keep my sim-card in my Android phone for now but I'll use it to browse the fediverse (), watch YouTube (), browse the web (), chat on Matrix (), etc. I'll probably find a ton of bugs, so let's get these reported and fixed!

tuxdevices, (edited ) to apple German
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I just received my new work laptop ( Pro M3, ~€2000) just to discover that it does not support dual-monitor output despite having multiple video ports.

For a feature that even the cheapest laptops (and older MacBooks) have had for years, Apple now asks you to buy the MacBook Pro M3 Pro (€2500) or M3 Max (€4000).

This is essentially €2000 . Not so "pro" after all.

bart,
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@tuxdevices I literally found out the same thing last week with my work laptop! Also a Pro M3, it's ridiculous.

I could choose my own laptop configuration as long as it was a Macbook (need to build iOS apps) and I've specifically chosen the Pro to get a proper HDMI port, only to realize this issue way later.

I'm going to replace my personal laptop and am probably going to get a , they show that it is possible to do it right!

peja, to linuxphones Serbian
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I’ll show you mine, you show me yours...
#postmarketos #gnomemobile

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bart,
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@craftyguy @peja I can not imagine that keyboard and mouse in anyway being comfortable to use 😱

bart,
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@craftyguy @peja Definitely true 😄 Do you also actually use that mouse in that location? Basically in the middle of the keyboard?

fdroidorg, (edited ) to fdroid
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We have a new This week in (TWIF) post.

Thanks to the EU's DMA, 3rd party stores will get more love and treated more equally than before.

Tailscale is doing a redesign, until that's done we've released the crash fix update.

Conversations and Quicksy have their 10th anniversary and celebrate with a design update.

Last but not least, we had 10 new and 160 updated apps this week.

https://f-droid.org/2024/04/18/twif.html

bart,
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@fdroidorg Great changes! I do wonder, with the DMA now forcing Apple to open up and allow more stores, is there any interest at all in making an F-Droid version for iOS?

It would be so much easier to develop iOS apps for internal testing if we can just ship them as a F-Droid repository. I was thinking of setting that up for Android but right now having the same distribution method for both platforms (Firebase) is more convenient.

fell, to KDE
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I gave KDE Plasma Mobile another go. It improved a LOT over the past few months. No crashes yet! It's a lot more stable now. Although not as stable as Phosh.

I like their whole "just copy Android" philosophy. Everything feels familiar and intuitive. I might keep it like this.

Photo of a OnePlus 6T running KDE Plasma Mobile 6.0.3 showing the system information.
Photo of a OnePlus 6T running KDE Plasma Mobile 6.0.3 showing the quick settings pulldown.

bart,
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@penguingeek @fell Snap is not really supported outside of Ubuntu and most definitely not on Alpine Linux/postmarketOS. Flatpak works fine though, and yes there is integration into Discover.

bart,
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@fliegerjohn @fell What? Tokodon works just fine for me, using 24.02.1 on Alpine Linux edge (which is the exact same package as on postmarketOS edge). No freezing to be found. This report is new to me 🤔

Mehrad, (edited ) to KDE
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I finally budged and used pmbootstrap to make my own customization of @postmarketOS . The experience was not so smooth as the documentation was not specific enough and scattered, but I finally did it 🎉 with PmOS edge channel (rolling release) and .

I should give props to both @postmarketOS and @kde mobile folks for such gorgeous view and clean experience. It is astonishingly beautiful, and many Plasma5 issues are fully solved!

You got yourself a big fat new fan right here 🙋

bart,
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@Mehrad @sohrabbehdani Hey since you find our (postmarketOS) documentation lacking, please consider helping to improve it! It's a wiki after all, anyone can just edit it.

Mehrad, (edited ) to kde
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Tbh, I'm still super impressed with smoothness of :kdenew: KDE Plasma5 on :postmarketos: PostMarketOS on such an old phone (Samsung Galaxy A300FU). Truly an achievement. Of course it is far from optimal (e.g notifications can clutter the screen and their close button are out of bound of the display).

Well done @kde , @kde and @postmarketOS 👏🏼

bart,
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@Mehrad @kde @kde @postmarketOS postmarketOS stable I assume? Just wait till you get (either in next stable or current edge)

bart, to KDE
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And of course, also runs great with on ! Just got this running a few minutes ago.

postmarketOS, (edited ) to random

It's big announcement day! :postmarketos:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/05/adding-systemd/

#systemd #postmarketos #linuxmobile #musl #alpinelinux #kde #gnome #sxmo #mosstodon

bart,
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@cnx @mid_kid @postmarketOS That's ridiculous, KDE explicitly supports FreeBSD and I recall seeing OpenBSD packaging being worked on as well

bart, to linuxphones
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Yesterday I finally clicked the merge button and since it's now fully built: edge now ships !

Please give it a shot and report any problems, initial testing shows everything works fine but I'm sure I missed something somewhere.

kde, (edited ) to linuxphones
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KDE releases today Plasma Mobile 6. Check out its renewed base system and apps.

This version comes with a new and improved shell, a new home screen with heaps of new features, enhancements of the base system, improvements in apps like Clock, Kasts and Photos, and much more.

https://plasma-mobile.org/2024/02/21/plasma-6/

@kde

bart,
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@be @kde @kde @postmarketOS When I've finished the PR upgrading it all. Currently I'm building everything locally and if that's done I'll push it to Alpine. Hopefully end of weekend update will be available

bart,
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@Shatur @owen
> Ubuntu Touch

They don't ship Plasma Mobile, or any other mobile UI that is not Lomiri for that matter.

bart, to linuxphones
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Did you know has been shipping nightly built packages for a while now? It has been useful so far for developers to develop and make Qt6 ready, but it's also a great way for more experienced users to help test out KDE and catch bugs early!

Details to enable it for yourself can be found at https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Nightly

WARNING: only for experienced users, things can break any day!

cassidy, to GNOME
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PostmarketOS blew up on my secondhand OnePlus 6T (it boots to TTY after an update, yay!), so I'm looking for the best way to test GNOME stuff on it again.

Does anyone have a recommendation for the “best” way from an upstream GNOME perspective—like, do we have GNOME OS images for it? 😅

I threw Droidian on it because someone suggested I check it out and it’s working alright but it defaults to Phosh, and I’m not going to package the mobile GNOME Shell stuff myself.

#GNOME #GNOMEmobile #Linux

bart,
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@cassidy Sad to see that you want to leave . But could you help figure out what went wrong so we can help prevent others from the same faith?

It would be great to get some logs, I think for GNOME they should be in ~/.local/state/tinydm.log.

kde, to linuxphones
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Plasma and apps for mobile also getting overhauled for 6.

It's not only Plasma on the desktop that is getting a new version, as Devin Lin explains in his blog post,

https://espi.dev/posts/2023/12/plasma-mobile-towards-6/

developers are working hard on getting 6 ready for the scheduled for February.

@kde

bart,
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@mlekar @kde @kde No, Ubuntu Touch isn't a classic Linux desktop. Check https://plasma-mobile.org/get/

bart,
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@itsoulos @kde @kde It works of course, but it's interface isn't mobile friendly at all. Merkuro will be a better fit, it uses the same backend as KMail (Akonadi) anyway.

EU_Commission, to Bulgaria
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We want to make sustainable and circular products the norm in the .

We adopted new recommendations to facilitate the return of phones, tablets, and laptops. They include:

  • Financial incentives
  • Tools to estimate their value for buy-back
  • Easy ways to return and collect them
  • Better convenience and visibility of collection points

We can all benefit from giving devices new life or reusing their precious materials.

A circular economy for us, our Planet.

→ https://europa.eu/!nYJhJf

bart,
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@fell @vandenberglegs @EU_Commission @postmarketOS Haven't had any luck with Apple devices? What?
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone_7/7%2B_(apple-iphone7)
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone_6s/6s%2B_(apple-iphone6s) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPhone_6_(apple-iphone6) https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Apple_iPad_1G_(apple-ipad1g)

Bro666, to kde
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Cool KDE Plasma trick: [Meta] + [v]

You know how you can use [Ctrl] + [v] to paste in place the last thing you copied to the clipboard, right?

A cool and productive-enhancing variant of that available in 's desktop is that, when copying and pasting a lot of different things, you can hold down the [Meta] ("Windows") key and hit [v], and a list of all the elements available on the clipboard will pop up so you can choose what to paste next.

@kde

A screencast showing how [Meta] + [v] works vs [Ctrl] + [v].

bart,
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@Bro666 @kde Eh, that shortcut does nothing for me and I don't see any relevant (unassigned) shortcut in system settings. With Plasma 5.27.8, what am I missing?

bart,
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@Bro666 @kde Ah there you go, it was unassigned. I've set it to the default now and it works great, that makes the clipboard so much more useful! Previously I was manually moving my mouse to click on the tray icon, it was quite inefficient.

Thanks!

bart,
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@Bro666 @kde Definitely. In this case I expected it in the shortcuts KCM in system settings but it's just not there. It probably should be though.

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