Bring it back to life! Kids Edition

#FOSS for #sustainability at #38C3.

Have an old computer in the drawer?

For the holidays give your kids and yourself a “new” old Linux gaming device in this drop-in workshop with #KDEEco.

Avoid CO2 in device production and have fun doing it!

Bring an old laptop and give it a second life on Sunday 29 Dec. from 12-15h, GF1 Saal 5.

If you want to set up a full-on gaming device, don't forget a controller :)

@kde

#KDE #OptGreen #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

iio-sensor-proxy 3.6-RC1 is just released! Just in time before Christmas! 🥳🥳🥳
Me and @agx took over the maintenance from @hadessuk a while back and this is our first release.
This release is packed with many nice features and bugfixes! If all turns out well, we will tag a final 3.6 release soon.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/hadess/iio-sensor-proxy/-/releases/3.6-RC1

#sensors #Linux #linuxmobile

libcamera v0.4.0 "Tibb's Eve" has been released.

A new virtual pipeline handler, IPA support for the Mali-C55, updated control handling and better support for reporting controls in GUI applications, and lots of work everywhere. Interesting new support for full dewarp control on the i.MX8MP, and updates to tuning processes too!

This release brings 253 new commits, check out the release notes at

https://lists.libcamera.org/pipermail/libcamera-devel/2024-December/047898.html

postmarketOS v24.12 is out now! ✨

"The One With Androids & Cameras, But It's Mainline Linux"

Read all about it on our blog:
https://postmarketos.org/blog/2024/12/23/v24.12-release/

Big thanks to everybody who has been contributing to this release, without you this would not be possible! ❤️

We would also like to thank @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release. If you would like to get your project funded, consider applying for a grant!

#linux

If you are working on Free and Open Source technologies that improve the digital landscape for everyone, know that NGI0 offers financial & practical support.
We offer grants between €5k - €50k, open to everyone.
Calls currently open:
NGI0 Commons Fund: Reclaim the public internet
NGI TALER: Privacy-preserving digital payments
NGI MobiFree: More ethical mobile software
NGI Fediversity: Creating the hosting stack of the future
Deadline February 1, 2025
https://nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241201-call.html
#FOSS #NGI #NGI0

anyone looking for a christmas project? here's an idea...

once https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/5920 is merged it won't be necessary have a fat32 boot partition for #postmarketOS anymore, just a root partition.

this means that for a buuuunch of Android devices it would be super easy to install postmarketOS from a rooted Android install (e.g. lineageOS) just by

• flashing the boot image + erasing dtbo
• mounting the root partition image and cp -a'ing the whole thing to userdata
• patch the UUID of the userdata partition to match the one in /etc/fstab using tune2fs, OR patching the cmdline (in the boot image) and the fstab to have the correct UUID

Then you can just run (from your rooted Android phone)

curl switch.pmos.org | sh

GNOME Software received a brand new systemd-sysupdate plugin. That was one of the last pieces needed to complete the migration of GNOME OS from OSTree to systemd-sysupdate.
https://adrienplazas.com/blog/2024/12/20/a-systemd-sysupdate-plugin-for-gnome-software.html

Sovereign Tech Fund Invests in OpenStreetMap

Sovereign Tech Agency (@sovtechfund) has decided to invest €384k over two years to ensure the stability, growth and modernization of OpenStreetMap’s core software.

read more: https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2024/12/20/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-in-openstreetmap/
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #Funding

a friend of mine is interested in attending #38c3 for the first time. if anyone has a spare ticket they'd be happy to sell on please lmk!

#congress #congress2024 #ticket38c3

edit: she found one! thx folks :D

The new adaptive testing feature has motivated me to finally fix Keypunch's mobile layout! The configuration dropdowns are now moved down to the text view itself on narrow screen sizes. It was pretty easy to accomplish with the new multi-layout widgetry. It's amazing how far we've come with regards to adaptivity.

#libadwaita #Keypunch #GNOME

Blogged about that thing I posted about last week since it landed: https://blogs.gnome.org/alicem/2024/12/19/mobile-testing-in-libadwaita/

See you soon at #FOSDEM!

#Tuba v0.9.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- Audio Visualizer
- Accent Colors and other GNOME 47 changes
- Focus Picker
- Account Suggestions for new accounts
- Scheduled & Draft Posts
- Hashtag extraction from posts
- Full emoji reaction support for supported backends
- FediWrapped
- Thread Muting
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
https://github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/releases/tag/v0.9.0

#GNOME #GTK

I did a thing (I got tired of endlessly resizing the window in very precise ways to test moble screen sizes)

reminder that the librem 5 is more complicated and more expensive to meet the FSF Respect Your Freedom certification. What do you get for this? Some firmware is stored on a flashROM rather than internal storage, making it HARDER to reverse engineer and replace

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