#libobscura grand opening!

Libobscura is a friendly library to use cameras on Linux.

At least that's the goal.

The objectives are:

- hard to use it wrong
- get a RGB buffer in ten lines of code
- easy to add support for new devices
- no mailing list :P

I want #linuxmobile and other #photo and #video workflows to become easy, and manufacturers to spend less time adding support (hi me 2 years ago).

More info on my #blog: https://dorotac.eu/posts/libobscura/

#freesoftware #rustlang @libcamera

Who's into #LinuxMobile and plans to attend #38c3?

Want to form an assembly?
https://events.ccc.de/en/2024/11/03/38c3-call-for-assemblies/ - Nov 24 is the deadline.

I (Peter) think it would be nice to have one, but after my failing to make it happen last year (https://linmob.net/37c3) I don't want to try again - the failure was in part due to a stressful end of year at $dayjob and it's going to be similar this year.

This does not have to be a stand, and could just be a home base to connect and hack on things!

mobile-config-firefox 4.4.0 is out!

* More space in the urlbar (no ➡️, trimHttps, etc.)
* More space for tabs
* Touch screen fixes
* Tab counter!
* xdg-desktop-portal file-picker
* Moving the navigation to the bottom / showing multiple tabs / tab counter is now optional via about:config options
* PPA is disabled

Big thanks to @linmob, @user0 from #FriendlyFox (counter is based on her amazing work!), @gnumdk from @droidian, @DrRac27, @sethi !

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/mobile-config-firefox/-/tags/4.4.0

#linuxmobile

In other news, im working on bring the Xiaomi Pad 5 to postmarketOS since a while now, i was waiting for the suspend working again, and with 6.12 it is now working!!, it has almost everything you expect for a tablet (even pen support!), im still struggling with sensors bringup, but we are getting there!!!

#postmarketOS #xiaomipad5

Well, my pixel 3a just died, the touch screen stopped working and i couldn't fix it, that's sad (i'll use it as a server, so it's not lost), i want to buy a phone, if you are in Colombia, and you happen to have a pixel 3a or a pixel 3 laying around and you want to get rid of those, please tell me :DD

#postmarketos

really happy to finally have pmbootstrap 3.0.0 tagged! no doubt there will be even more bug fixes in the near future xD

The pmbootstrap refactoring is still far from over. if you're interested in things like cross compiling and tooling/workflows, we could definitely use more contributors!

@ollieparanoid https://fosstodon.org/@ollieparanoid/113460107335767176

After ~ half a year of massive refactorings and improvements to make pmbootstrap easier to maintain and to bring more performance and better usability, we are happy to announce the 3.0.0 release of pmbootstrap!

Personally my favorite new feature is that packages to build are now calculated and shown ahead of time, but it features so many more improvements.

Coming soon to a distro near you - if you want to use it now, grab it from the git repo!

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/tags/3.0.0

Caleb Connolly (@cas) & Pablo Correa Gómez (@pabloyoyoista) dive into postmarketOS (https://postmarketos.org/), an OS for off-market phones, and how they're making it into a sustainable community.

Listen at 🎙️ https://podcast.sustainoss.org/255

wip but functional #postmarketOS installer for use on laptops

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/installer

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5759

in 2024-10

* 2 Linux Mobile grants we applied for at the amazing @nlnet @NGIZero fund have been accepted: OpenIMSd and Enhanching Firefox for Linux on Mobile! 🎉
* Libcamera progress
* Trailblazer now supports the PinePhone
* A generic (!!) qcom-msm8953 port
* Progress for pmb v3
* systemd progress, new timeline
* Many mobile-config-firefox improvements, some features now optional via about:config
* and much more!

Thanks to everybody who contributed!!

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/11/04/pmOS-update-2024-10/

maybe maybe i get this working in time... need to do some checksum stuff and then figure out the pmbootstrap side of things....

literally all this does it run `dd`, it's exclusively meant for laptops where you expect to boot some "installer" image. Whatever customisation stuff we plan to do will have to be handled at first boot because we also support installing to phones where you expect to flash the image directly (thus, this stupid installer app isn't needed)

Techbros: We pushed AI everywhere to increase your productivity and wellbeing!

Meanwhile techbros to investors:

If you’re using AppImage to ship your app on desktop Linux you’re doing a huge disservice to your users by perpetuating the use of a broken by design format that doesn’t even work on the most popular Linux distros without jumping into a terminal. Please stop shipping this format. Don’t use it. Don’t let your friends use it. Package any other way than this please

pmbootstrap got some big refactoring today to it's "apk" handling.

It will now always run apk on the host (no more slow apk through QEMU!) and should do a slightly better job at caching packages.

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2463

This should make some things like building packages go faster!

If you're already running pmbootstrap 3.0 alpha you can "git pull" and give it a whirl.

Hello from Android! #soon #loops

The new "someone left their phone sitting there, take a funny selfie!" is the "open their ChatCPT app and mess with their 'Custom Instructions'."

lololol

I sometime still think about that cover of Sims 3: Katy Perry Sweet Treats pack. The way this looks like a bootleg but is actually official pack made by EA is sending me so much 😭

#TheSims #TheSims3 #Gaming