Meet the main folks behind #postmarketOS on our shiny new Team webpage!
So thanks to @rmader@mastodon.social we managed to get the front camera in the Pixel 3a working with a libcamera/pipewire stack 🥳 Thanks to @flamingradian for the work on the whole port!
EDIT: The driver does not properly release the camera when closing the app, so it only works once per boot. It would be lovely if anybody with the skills would like to contribute to improve it!
https://gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/linux/-/merge_requests/1
#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC
Just got GNOME Mobile 46 built and running in @postmarketOS on my OP6, here at #GUADEC2024 in Denver, so the folks in Berlin aren't the only ones that can try it out!
Come find me at the BoFs tomorrow if you want to play with it!
Thanks @cas for the help getting it building!
postmarketOS in 2024-07
* New homepage design + content
* pmbootstrap feature freeze is over, lots of changes for v3
* New approval requirements for merging patches
* 8 new device ports
* Major initramfs improvements
* Sensor support for Xiaomi Poco F1, Fairphone 4, Fairphone 5
* Lenovo ThinkPad X13s is now in community
* Libcamera patches
* Several amlogic ports for TVs were integrated into a generic amlogic-tvbox port
* and a lot more!
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/21/pmOS-update-2024-07/
@EC_NGI and @nlnet make a dramatic impact to improve our sustainable, privacy and attention respecting #linuxmobile ecosystem. One of the very few answers we have to the duopoly of Android and iOS from Silicon Valley!
Because of that we are saddened about the @EUCommission not mentioning NGI programmes anymore in their draft of funding programmes for 2025. 😢
We signed the open letter, consider doing the same if your project received funding in the past.
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/07/17/news-on-grant-applications/
Is there anyone who is interested in taking over maintenance of this lovely chess timer app for #GNOME written in #Python? It's pretty cool (and a member of GNOME Circle!), but its maintainer, the wonderful Clara Hobbs, is stepping away from the project. If this sounds interesting to you, reach out to them!
What is the current state of NFC on linux?
I want to write an HCE application for Asteroid and potentially other mobile linux targets but am having trouble finding information on where to start.
What toolkits should I use? Should I make my APDU handler a little library? Should provisioning be in that library or somewhere else? How do I register an AID with the system? How do I shove APDUs back at the reader? Is any of this even possible yet?
If anyone knows anything about this please reach out.
#postmarketOS #linuxMobile #AsteroidOS #wearables #linux #mobileLinux #nfc #hce
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#156 Happy Hacking
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/07/twig-156/
That's all you need to know about "standardization" IRL
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