Hello #Fediverse !

This is < polycule > - a geeky and efficient [matrix] client for power users.

We finally made it to the Fediverse. We focus on a geeky and accessible user interface written in Flutter aiming to target Linux mobile and Android.

If you're curious on past toots, check out @braid's toots on #PolyculeClient !

@matrix

#Introduction #NewHere #matrix #Flutter #LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #accessibility

In case you missed the last #GNOME foundation update: we're excited to share that we have officially joined the @gnome advisory board! We hope this will help us bring more attention to the #LinuxMobile effort and let us make GNOME on postmarketOS even better across all form factors.

blogs.gnome.org/steven/2025/07…

2025-07-12 Foundation Update

Gah. Every week I'm like "I'll do a short one this week" and then I... do not.   ## New Treasurers We recently announced our new treasurer, Deepa Venkatraman. We will also have a new...

^{Steven Deobald (The Everyone Environment)}

postmarketOS v25.06 - "the one with systemd" is out now!

* Camera for OP6/6T and others 📸
* #GNOME 48 + 48.mobile.0
* #PlasmaMobile 6.3.5
* #Phosh 0.47.0 with Stevia now installed by default
* #Sxmo 1.17.1 (again, but this time with a systemd preview too!)
* os-installer images
* mobile-config-thunderbird

Thanks to all the amazing people who contributed to this release!

Thanks to @nlnet and @NGIZero for funding most of the infrastructure and maintenance work that went into this release as well as a lot of the systemd related work.

postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/…

#linuxmobile

v25.06: the one with systemd

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

^postmarketOS

If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual applications, libraries and subsystems as well as broader topics like e.g. "messaging".

#linuxmobile #linuxdesktop #opensource #mobilelinux #linux

📆 Save the Date 📆

We're having another edition of #BoilingTheOcean on May 24th and 25th!

Join us for two days of hacking on low-level emancipatory tech in Berlin. Agenda, location, etc. TBA :)

#gnome #gtk #linuxmobile #p2p #p2panda #berlin

wow, Adwaita 1.7.0 has a new adaptive preview, so you can see how your apps will look on phones. Now that's some #LinuxMobile goodness :D

nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-7…

#GNOME

so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)

the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)

#furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads

timsh.org/tracking-myself-down…

#privacy #tracking #linuxmobile #surveillance

Everyone knows your location

Recently I read about a massive geolocation data leak from Gravy Analytics, which exposed more than 2000 apps, both in AppStore and Google Play, that secretly collect geolocation data without user consent.

^{tim (tim.sh)}

Apple iPhone 6 running Linux 6.13 and postmarketOS.

It's on.

Special Thanks to @riscv64 for doing the work to make this possible. I just got it booting with pmOS.

#iPhone #iOS #Apple #postmarketOS #Linux #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile

if you're interested in actually overthrowing Big Android (rather than living off Googles scraps) be sure to come by the #LinuxMobile assembly this congress. There's a revolution brewing :3

linmob.net/38c3/

#38c3 #MobileLinux #ccc #postmarketOS

Hey 38c3, have you heard of the Linux Mobile Revolution?

LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.

^{LINux on MOBile}

Oops, it happened again! @cas flashed @postmarketOS onto my old Pixel 3 this time. This is becoming a pattern! 😝

#GNOME #PostmarketOS #Linux #LinuxMobile #Berlin

As I have abandoned Android and am now daily-driving Gnome mobile / PostmarketOS on my OnePlus 6, I feel the urge to contribute to filling the app gap. Nobody seems to have asked for an app to record push ups and track progress, but that's what I want to accomplish now. Here are some first impressions of my Libadwaita app, which I call "Pushup Sessions":

#Oneplus6 #linuxmobile #PostmarketOS #GnomeMobile

I upgraded #GNOME #Calls to #gtk4 + #libadwaita for fun. It's now released in v47.0! Should be available soon in your #LinuxMobile distribution of choice 🚀

Massive thanks to @devrtz, @agx, @brainblasted, and Maximiliano for putting up with my beginner-level GTK skills!

Important for me: the front camera should already work and for the back one there are WIP patches that work, meaning this device will probably be the first Android device with both cameras being supported (and most other thing as well!).

Sure, we're still very far away from what even a super outdated Android can offer. I for one am super eager and motivated to see if we can make #linuxmobile (upstream!) a somewhat reasonably alternative though - and make #postmarketos live up to its name :)

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!

gitlab.com/sdm670-mainline/lin…

#postmarketOS #LinuxMobile #Pixel3a #Snapshot #GNOME #GUADEC

Alright, I’ve finally done a new #GNOME Shell Mobile release! Time for a little thread about the updates.

gitlab.gnome.org/verdre/gnome-…

#LinuxMobile

Files · 46-mobile-0 · Jonas Dreßler / gnome-shell-mobile · GitLab

Welcome to GNOME GitLab

^GitLab

While @suraj_sloth is working on the #UnifiedPush connector side in #Chatty I got a chance to add the code for registering/unregistering #Matrix push gateways in #libcmatrix and Chatty (with this I can readily round trip messages up to the UP distributor):

#phosh #LinuxMobile #adwaita #gtk

I'm quite happy how upcoming performance improvements for #gnome Snapshot and #libcamera are shaping up. This is how things are now running for me on a #librem5:

#gstreamer #gtk #postmarketos #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

Is there anyone in the #linuxmobile community with some experience in (or motivation to learn) #openmp (or something similar) who'd be willing to help a bit with a patch of mine for the #libcamera softwareISP? It's an important piece of sw that allows us to use "complex" cameras even when we don't have ISP drivers.

The patch I started already shows promising results on e.g. the #librem5, however I could use some help getting it into a mergable state :)

gitlab.freedesktop.org/rmader/…

#postmarketos

Files · swisp-openmp · Robert Mader / libcamera · GitLab

freedesktop.org GitLab login

^GitLab

I'm happy to announce the availability of my new app "eSIM Manager" on postmarketOS! With it you can manage and install eSIMs on your phone running postmarketOS! No more need to boot into Android to do the same!

lucaweiss.eu/post/2024-06-24-e…

#postmarketOS #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile #eSIM #eUICC

#firefox #webrtc using #pipewire and #libcamera (with softwareISP) on a #thinkpadx13s - it finally works

The required patches will also make things work for a bunch of #linuxmobile devices.

#flathub beta for #deltachat_desktop is now available for testing.

We also improved the new small screen mode so that #linuxmobile phones can use it again. (still not a use case we can support officially, but now you can actually use it)

Read more and more pictures:
support.delta.chat/t/help-test…

More #phosh custom quick settings coming in. We just landed a dark mode toggle by Teemu Ikonen on main:

#gtk #LinuxMobile

new test release 1.45.1 for #deltachat_desktop is ready for testing.

We fixed the map and added a small screen mode making it more usable on small screens such as #linuxmobile phones (even though that is still not really a supported use case)

support.delta.chat/t/help-test…

🧪 Help testing the upcoming v1.45.X release

The time has come for a new Desktop Release! 🎉 Help us find the most annoying bugs so we can make sure this update is ready to be released on the website and in stores.

^Delta.Chat

Alright, that's it! I've had enough! I'm flashing #postmarketOS for the LAST time!
Wait! What? But that would mean.....

williamtries.ovh/pmoslastflash…

#oneplus6 #pmos #gnomemobile #LinuxMobile

🚀 📱 phosh 0.39.0 is out. Some highlights:

- #phosh: folder support, night light quick setting
- #phoc: wakeup-key handling (to prevent accidental unblank)
- #squeekboard: New layouts, lots of layout improvements
- mobile-settings: Allow to manage custom quick settings, allow to toggle whether to ignore hw keyboards, many new translations

Check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.39.0…

#librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

Phosh 0.39.0

The Phosh 0.39.0 Release

^phosh.mobi

Just want to quickly share with #linuxmobile folks that the new #libcamera softwareISP does indeed work with the #librem5 - and with a #PipeWire + #GStreamer pipeline. Here's a first image running Warp (from Flathub).

There's still some stuff to iron out to make this work reliably and ship to users - but things are falling into place.

Very, very happy that our proposal for adding #cellbroadcast support to #ModemManager and #Phosh was accepted by @NGIZero : nlnet.nl/project/SMS-CB 🗼 〰️ 📱

#LinuxMobile

Junction 1.8 is out ✨

Junction pops up automatically when you open a file or link to let you choose which app to open with.

flathub.org/apps/re.sonny.Junc…

The highlight of this version is better mobile and touch support 📱

Plus, the app is now verified on Flathub and has a "High quality app data" rating.

#GNOME #GTK #Flatpak #Flathub #LinuxMobile #Linux

This is kinda a technology preview in order to see if we can ship features like this enabled by default in a lot more apps in the ecosystem.

Thus I'd be very super happy if you'll try it on lots of hardware - be Intel/AMD laptops or ARM64 devices (with V4L2 stateless decoders, such as most #LinuxMobile devices).

Chances that you really hit a zero-copy path are highest with a recent #Wayland compositor - i.e. if you are using #GNOME46, #kde6 or a recent version of #sway, #weston, #cosmic etc.

It's big announcement day!

postmarketos.org/blog/2024/03/…

#systemd #postmarketos #linuxmobile #musl #alpinelinux #kde #gnome #sxmo #mosstodon

Adding systemd to postmarketOS

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

^postmarketOS

Implementing battery charge limits in GNOME

By @jelly

vdwaa.nl/gnome-upower-charge-t…

It will mitigate battery loosing capacity over time.

#GNOME #Linux #LinuxMobile #FrameworkLaptop #freedesktop

I know cool people don't like to use them ( @tbernard 👀 ) but this really deserves the visibility of an infinite hashtags soup

It looks absolutely fantastic and I can't wait to make use of them; as a user and as a developer.

#GNOME #GTK #LinuxMobile

phosh 0.35.0 is out 🚀📱:

Among other QoL improvements this fixes the suspend inhibitor when using your phone as a WiFi hotspot and gives more screen estate due to a narrow home bar (by mathew-dennis),

Check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.35.0…

#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

Phosh 0.35.0

The Phosh 0.35.0 Release

^phosh.mobi

phosh 0.34.1 is out 🚀📱:

This fixes two user visible regressions that crept into 0.34.0.

Check out the full release notes at phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.34.1…

#phosh #librem5 #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #gnomemobile