@sonny @vixalientoots Congrats to both on this release!! :DDD

Interested in sustainability and #permaculture? Consciousness about how you engage with tech?

If you're in or around #Berlin this Sunday then come along to a #permacomputing workshop at /rosa (treptow).

We'll be taking a more technical look at smartphones and how they can be prolonged and/or repurposed with #postmarketOS

For details and sign up info please check https://berlin.permacomputing.net

bring along your old phone and we'll see what we can do! check out wiki.postmarketos.org for a list of devices

Here it is; my write up of about a week's worth of work to better understand Godot Engine, Flatpak, and—in a way—game developers. :D

https://cassidyjames.com/blog/publish-godot-engine-game-flathub-flatpak/

It looks like a long post (and I could probably use an editor for concision!), but I hope it’s an easy read, and useful reference material.

Boost widely! Let’s get more indie games to Flathub!

Oh, and reply publicly here to comment on the post. :)

#Godot #OpenSource #Flatpak #Flathub #GodotEngine #GameDev #LinuxGaming

First photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S III on #postmarketOS, probably! Credits to Jack Kekzoz, @martijnbraam, and whoever else helped him with getting #Megapixels working on the Midas (Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II) devices — I'm just posting about this, I didn't work on it myself. Hopefully we'll have it available in Edge over the coming months.

The testing phase for the upcoming postmarketOS release v24.12 has started! 🧪

If you want to give it a spin and help with making it more stable, head over to...

✏️ Testing issue:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/issues/3359

💬 Testing chat:
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Matrix_and_IRC

#postmarketOS 24.12 is coming out, and we just can't pick a wallpaper....

can you guys help us? Poll in the replies.

@AmyIsCoolz if you happen to look at the page linked on the wiki, you will see a lot of XDA usernames and links XD (before, the only dev info and conversations were on XDA)

@AmyIsCoolz i should really update the wiki, not because i am developing for nabu now, but also because that was never true, other distros had the same support as pmos since the original mantainer's tablet died (none), it was very frustating (they even imported xiaomi code to those distros)

interested in helping with with #postmarketOS ? Have an interest in Freedesktop, #GNOME, or app development?

Check out the help wanted section at the bottom of our November status update

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/09/pmOS-update-2024-11/

@eris Everyone knows it's gnu/linux/freedesktop/systemd/dbus/xdg_desktop_portals/wayland/FHS/curl

@eris its only gnu/linux because rms was too busy being a creep to actually write a kernel

For some last-minute, end-of year #permacomputing joy, please join us in Berlin for a workshop:

## POST:COM:POST
** Regenerating rotting devices.**

* A Permacomputing Berlin Workshop *

15.12.2024 from 12-17:00h

kindly hosted by:
/rosa
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin

In this workshop, we will attempt to install the Linux-based PostmarketOS on "obsolete" Android devices and find convivial new uses for them. This event will be more of a collective hacking and experimentation session than a traditional pedagogical instruction format. We can't promise to make every old device work again but we can offer a fun, informative and supportive environment.

For sign-up and more info: https://berlin.permacomputing.net/

2 more features for overlays:

• analog stick control type (WIP, I may want to tweak the hitbox)
• decorations (stick base octagon and the C buttons label)

The layout will need to be tweaked a lot (I mean I had a design for N64 which was completely different) but I wanted to try this one first just to check how it would work (answer - badly, the stick and A/B buttons are too low)

🚀 Join the GNOME Foundation Team! 🌱

We’re excited to announce two contractor opportunities funded by Endless:

1️⃣ Digital Wellbeing / Parental Controls
2️⃣ Flathub Payments

We’re looking for passionate individuals to help with GNOME Desktop-wide web/network filtering and Flathub program management.

🔍 For full details & to apply:
Visit the GNOME project Discourse forum links:

1. https://discourse.gnome.org/t/request-for-proposals-gnome-desktop-wide-web-network-filtering-solution/25483

2. https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276

Have experience in open source program management, especially within the US legislative landscape? We’re seeking a contractor to help bootstrap Flathub into a self-sustaining entity. Help us:

• Launch payment & donation systems
• Establish operational governance
• Coordinate financial & legal operations
• Ensure community engagement & transparency
https://discourse.flathub.org/t/request-for-proposals-flathub-program-management/8276

#Flathub #FediHire #GetFediHired #Flatpak #job #JobAlert #OpenSource #Flatpak #Linux

At last, the USB portal originally authored by @refi64 in 2021, later continued by Georges Stavracas in 2023, and finalized by @hub and @swick, has been merged!

The USB portal allows sandboxed formats like Flatpak to access USB devices without poking holes in the sandbox. This is great for security, as accessing USB devices will now need to be explicitly granted by the user.

Now we just need to wait for implementers to implement them in their respective portal implementations, starting with GNOME: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/xdg-desktop-portal-gnome/-/merge_requests/159

The documentation for the USB portal is available on the xdg-desktop-portal website: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Usb.html

#Flatpak #Security #GNOME

@AdrianVovk @cassidy even something about metadata could work, most cases of apps escaping the sandbox are apps that could use portals but they are not doing it (there are extreme cases like sunshine, even if i like the app, and they are working on adding pipewire support so the workaround is not needed, the current release on flathub is awful dangerous)

@AdrianVovk even if i get what you mean, there are a lot of apps that a lot of users recommend, but they are always escaping the sandbox (heroic games launcher, im looking at you), or other apps that don't work properly without changing permissions on flatseal, flathub should be more restrictive on those cases u.u

@alice on newer versions hold the pill button and it wil bring osk