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.
Decided to try to setup a blog for my development. For my first piece I decided to recount the development history of #Lomiri as a frame for my future posts.
From 7 March, the designated gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft – must comply with all obligations in the Digital Markets Act.
These changes give you control of your:
📱 data: decide freely how your data is used
📱 phone: choose your default apps, browsers and search engines
📱 apps: install the apps you want and remove pre-installed apps
This one definetively is in the right directiion, it only came 'a bit late' and is way too short.
There is no choice, if soneone wants me to use WhatsApp, AirDrop or AirPlay.
In my private environment I can say 'no, thanks' (and socially isolate myself), but when it comes to companys (e.g. discounts), communities (e.g. soccer for kids) or public services (e.g. schools), I have no choice. I simply have to use a device that supports it.
Still no chance for other manufacturers or data sensible devices.
You know what. If I am going to try helping to maintain the Lomiri UI in postmarketOS, why not do the ultimate dogfooding and install it on my main laptop? If I am going to distrohop anyways, why not at least try it?
Making progress with #BitRitter. Slow, but steady.
Today i implemented a password input to unlock the #BitWarden / #VaultWarden vault, so we can soon remove a part of the credentials.toml (which was just a workaround for faster testing) and make the app safer. #Relm4 feels nicer the more i get to work with it.
Sadly my ARM CI did not work as nicely as the x86, so i can't package for my phone easily.
so cool to have offline speech recognition on #linuxmobile thanks to ideasman42 github repo.
next step is to create #sxmo gestures or even better a microphone key on the virtual keyboard to enable/disable spokenlanguage input. #postmarketos
Kennt jemand eine Custom Rom für ein Galaxy Tab A SM-T595 / gta2xllte?
Ich möchte ungern Elektroschrott nur wegen Software produzieren. #boostme#boost#android#samsung#customrom
Wrote a blog post about the first two months of my #pinephone Pro usage as a PDA and how I got around solving some initial hardware problems (spoiler: read the manual, then asked the support team).
Someone over on GitLab did some really impressive work into reverse engineering the Qualcomm IMS bringup for VoLTE service on Linux phones. I tested his proof of concept IMS data service tool and was successfully able to place and receive calls on my #postmarketOS#oneplus 6T from LTE/4G mode! Audio worked in both directions! IMPRESSIVE!
So I've spent several hours trying to debug a problem with booting #postmarketOS on x86_64 systems that use 32-bit EFI...
I tried to document the issue and current debug here[1], just in case any bootloader, firmware, or kernel people would like to have a look and offer ideas 🙏
For those wanting to give #Lomiri a try on #postmarketOS based on my last post, I wrote a quick shell script to set up the pmaports environment for you. All you have to do is run the shell script and then run pmbootstrap init and make sure to select "y" when prompted "Build outdated packages during 'pmbootstrap install'?".
All parts of #Lomiri have been upstreamed from #postmarketOS to #AlpineLinux!!! Now it is super easy to test Lomiri yourself! Only the pmOS UI package needs to be built manually. I might write a quick post explaining how to do it if people are interested.