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Habe heute am bundesweiten Warntag auch das erste mal eine Probewarnung bekommen auf mein Linux Telefon. Danke an die Entwickler:innen.

Und bei diesem Toot gerade die Mehrfachauswahl von Dateien verwendet. Das ist ein neues Feature von Phosh 0.57. Auch zum ersten mal. Auch hier Danke an die Entwickler:innen.

Ein guter Tag heute :)

#phosh #linuxmobile #mobilelinux #fairphone5 #postmarketos

Okaaay, survived the first day, here is the summary:

- Got 2 incoming calls with working audio
- Emergency cell broadcast worked
- Browsing with 4G and Firefox very nice
- Chatty did not sync Matrix messages from 4G, only wifi
- Had to do one hard reboot because the login screen malfunctioned
- Battery duration was approx. 12h with medium usage
- Pretty nice handwarmer, though

#postmarketos #phosh #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

RE: https://fem.social/@clerie/117245957515762435

Gotta give the @phosh folks and nlnet (for funding that work) a pretty good applause :D

#phosh #postmarketos #linuxmobil

cell broadcast works on #postmarketos (didn't expect that, but good to know as I started daily driving it on my personal phone half a year ago)

Oneplus 6t: check
PostmarketOS stable: check
2nd SIM Card: check

Let's go!

#postmarketos #phosh #linuxmobile #mobilelinux

Even Cell Broadcast works #postmarketOS

I recently got an #AppleWatch to help improve my sleep quality. I've also been wearing it on daily walks, and when meeting people.

But with the news that Apple Watch is becoming a creeper device, I don't want to appear to endorse that, nor be insensitive, by wearing it around others.

So the Apple Watch is staying at home now

And I'm feeling more urge to move from #iPhone, to a more privacy-respecting device. Probably back to #GrapheneOS. But viable #PostmarketOS with #Phosh would be nice.

GrapheneOS is slop, blah blah blah... i know, i'd like to do something about it

https://codeberg.org/posthardenedOS specifically this, it's supposed to be postmarketOS (duranium) but hardened

the issue is that the project has barely started and i dropped it for now

i'm mediocre at cybersec at best and would need some help with the project (i.e. port linux-hardened, make SELinux policies, sandboxing, systems hardenings, etc.) just to keep the project rolling as i feel i'm not enough to get this job done properly

anybody interested? pls contact

#postmarketos #posthardenedos #grapheneos #mobilelinux #slop

I'm thinking about offering some informal mentoring to someone who wants to get into #postmarketOS development (packaging, #duranium) or other projects I'm heavily involved with. I've been contributing to pmOS for a while, and I'm happy to help someone get unstuck. In return I'd ask for patience (I make mistakes and I don't have infinite time), and some self-motivation and comfort with Linux, the command line, and git. Would anyone be interested in this?

Hello I'm calling you from Linux 7.1.0-rc1-sdm845 and all I had to do was putting a SIM card into the sim slot.

#postmarketOS is just insane nowadays

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (36/2026): Pixel 3 calling

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-36-2026/

#LinuxMobile #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #Fairphone6 #postmarketOS #Jolla #dawndrumsDivineD #Camera #DanctNIX #PinePhonePro #Mobian #CommodoreCallback #Librem5 #PureOS

Se nos acabo el verano, pero recuperamos a nuestro podcast de cabecera, aquí tenemos el episodio 75 de #KDEexpress :kde: ​🚀

Enlaces y toda la info en : https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/posts/kdeexpress/75-kde-express/

Temas o proyectos tratados
Eventos:
#AkademyES 2026

Apps:
#KDEstep #KDE_Gear #Okular #Dolphin #Konsole #Minuet

Distros/Plasma:
#Kubuntu #postmarketOS #OptGreen #Valve #SteamOS #KDE_Plasma

FLOSS:
#Firefox #Thunderbird #Libreoffice

Anímense a apuntarse y compartir.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (35/2026): Funded Flatpaks

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-35-2026/

#LinuxMobile #flatpak #Phosh #PlasmaMobile #Sxmo #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #DanctNIX #postmarketOS #Debian #NixOS #BengalOS #Librem5 #PinePhone #Fairphone6 #Mobian #Shift6mq #pixel9a

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (34/2026): Amazing Progress

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-34-2026/

#LinuxMobile  #Phosh #Sxmo #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #FuriLabsFLX1 #PINE64 #PinePhone #Fairphone6 #postmarketOS #Jolla #Mobian #KDEGear #dawndrumsDivineD #Camera #VoLTE

📸 Wow, rejoice! The Fairphone 6 now boasts a "working" main camera on PostmarketOS—because nothing screams innovation like finally catching up to 2010's camera quality standards! 😂 But hey, at least they're acknowledging the graininess; maybe one day they'll discover the magic of JPEG alternatives! 📷✨
https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera #Fairphone6 #PostmarketOS #CameraInnovation #TechHumor #JPEGAlternatives #HackerNews #ngated

Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera

https://catcrafts.net/posts/fairphone-6-postmarketos-working-main-camera

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49338285

#HackerNews #Fairphone6 #PostmarketOS #MainCamera #TechNews #SustainableTech

The Programmer’s Fulcrum 31 July, 2026

https://newsletter.mobileatom.net/the-programmers-fulcrum-31-july-2026/

RE: https://burningboard.net/@Larvitz/116986340147079545

You know what would be cool?! Jellyfin server of #freedesktop content and then turn it into a tv channel! Free Software TV channels, maybe? It's like bringing old school to ..uh.. now school? Watch it on my #postmarketos tv ;)

@shortwavesurfer @sbeak It looks like the following devices can work out for you and all ship to the US afaik:
1. #FLX1s from @furilabs
2. #LibertyPhone from @purism or the lower-spec #Librem5 if you don't need Waydroid
3. #MechaComet from @mechasystems who tested two LTE modems with it recently.

I daily drive a Librem 5 with #PureOS and #postmarketOS so feel free to ask about the experience.

#Linuxphones #mobileLinux #LinuxMobile #gnuLinux

@alexziemianski @thelinuxEXP second this. #Lomiri is supported by #postmarketOS too, and new UIs can be added just by installing postmarketos-ui-* packages

Good news: Your #Purism #Librem5 will soon be able to turn into a ship when running #postmarketOS with systemd: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8972

Episode 23 of Dark Blue Weekly released

https://darkblueproject.com/sites/news/dbw-e23.php

Stay cool and drink plenty of fluids!

#darkblueweekly #darkblueproject #kaoslinux #postmarketos #cosmicdesktop #darktable #system76 #linux #linuxdesktop #opensource #freesoftware

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (22/2026): Pispala and 26.04

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-22-2026/

#LinuxMobile #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #NFC #Lomiri #Flathub #postmarketOS #LibreOffice #FuriLabsFLX1s #FuriOS

This article originally appeared on The Fulcrum.

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This took me quite a bit of time, but I managed to boot postmarketOS on a currently unsupported devboard (commonly available for €25-30 where I live).

Little bit proud, but it's not a proper port yet, I ripped the kernel and other parts of the pre-init bootchain (fip.bin, u-boot, ...) from a pre-made Debian image for that device. I have a (mostly working) APKBUILD for that device's userland though. :)

#postmarketos #linux #milkv #riscv64

@archivescribe @DaveMasonDotMe There's the #FLX1s from @furilabs

Also, upcoming projects from @mechasystems, @dawndrums and @Liberux

Of course, there's the #LibertyPhone / #Librem5 from @purism for true #gnuLinux... which I heard is receiving a new modem upgrade this year. That's what I'm currently daily driving with #postmarketOS.

#LinuxMobile #MobileLinux #PureOS #FuriOS #MechaComet #FuriPhone

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (05/2026): Farewell, FOSDEM!

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-05-2026/

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #FOSSonMobile #MechaComet #FuriLabsFLX1s #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Phosh #Mobian #postmarketOS #Linux

For those still pushing #fairphone & #shiftphones as if they're reasonable options for everyone, you are #classist clowns at best. Spending $800 -$900 is nowhere near reasonable an amount of money to spend on a smartphone, when there are dozens of similar options in the big tech sphere for under $250 & if we switch our own OS, that likewise gives us dozens if not hundreds of similar options with #CalyxyOS & #PostmarketOS for that under $250 price point on a similar device.

Still a lot work to do, but for the first time, we got completely integrated CI testing of kernels running... on a phone! For what I know, this is a first for a non-multi-million-euro-company in the FOSS world!! Can't be more proud of it and all the people that helped during this journey.

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/jobs/1465886 is a bit cryptic, and might look like any other gitlab CI job, but is actually booting on a OP6T at @mupuf farm!!

There's still a long road ahead, but in the future we might be able to automate kernel upgrades with a lot less manual testing, and continue working the "reliability" goal we presented in https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/03/30/pmOS-year-priorities/

Huge thanks to @mupuf for all his work and dedication on ci-tron, to @cas for the initial dream and work all across the stack, to @fizzo and @corna, for the PCB that drives the phone, and to @fun, @adrianyyy, and @cas again for the work on Tauchgang. Truly team work :)

More details in some weeks in a blog post near you ;)

#postmarketos #ci #hw-ci #testing #linuxmobile #foss

@privacyguides I think #LinuxMobile is the only real path forward for freedom.

Instead of hoping in #Google, it would be better in the long run if concerned users rallied behind #Linux options (mainline or #Halium-based), and there are quite a few now, existing and upcoming.

#MobileLinux #FLX1 #FLX1s #FuriLabs #Librem5 #LibertyPhone #postmarketOS #UbuntuTouch #Droidian #Brax3 #JollaC2 #LiberuxNexx #DawnDrums #DawnOS #Pinephone #Mobian #gnuLinux #LibrePhone #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #FreedomTech #LibreTech

@chocrates @DeathByBigSad If you're already used to Linux desktop, I'd even venture to say that Linux phones are daily drivable for you in this order: #FLX1s from @furilabs, #JollaC2, #LibertyPhone, #Librem5, #Pinephone.

I'm daily driving a #Librem 5 with #postmarketOS and everything critical actually works for my use case.

so, i switched from spotify to #qobuz... for reasons... now i own a #hifi device (albeit entry level). for the price, the #hiby #m300 is pretty solid with my #koss #portapro headphones. especially since i've had my porta pros for like 3 or 4 years.

i'm all in bro

#music #headphones @music @music
#postmarketos #pixel3a

Daily driving a Pixel 3a while on a three week holiday wrap-up

https://my-place.social/display/e599373b-7168-6c62-c6a3-b86258671760

Daily driving a Pixel 3a while on a three week holiday wrap-up

https://my-place.social/display/e599373b-7168-6c62-c6a3-b86258671760

Daily driving a Pixel 3a while on a three week holiday wrap-up

https://my-place.social/display/e599373b-7168-6c62-c6a3-b86258671760

I thought only FairPhone made repairable phones, but HMD does too. They don't do everything that makes FairPhone great, but they're definitely worth consideration.

One problem: only 3 years of updates. 7 years of part availability can't fix that.

Maybe @LineageOS, @e_mydata, or @postmarketOS will support it.

https://www.hmd.com/self-repair

#HMD #HMDGlobal #FairPhone #LineageOS #eOS #PostMarketOS #RightToRepair

Lilbits: Install Google Play on Amazon Fire tablets, postmarketOS update, and a new color ePaper display kit

This week a lot of folks have been unwrapping Amazon Fire tablets, setting them up… and figuring out that some of the apps and games you want to run on them aren’t available out of the box.

Fortunately there are a bunch of ways to make an Amazon tablet more useful. You can sideload applications that aren’t available in the Amazon Appstore. Or you can even install the Google Play Store and add a custom launcher application to make an Amazon tablet feel more like a standard Android tablet… even though it’s running Amazon’s fork of Android called FireOS.

In today’s tech news roundup, I’ve got links to some of the articles we’ve published over the past few years that describe how to hack an Amazon Fire tablet. And in more recent tech news, the latest release of the postmarketOS mobile Linux distribution brings camera support to some phones that originally shipped with Android, AOOSTAR has a new mini PC with discrete graphics, JSAUX has a new dock for handheld gaming PCs that includes built-in cooling fans, and there’s a new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W-powered color E Ink display kit.

Amazon Fire Tablet hacking roundup

Amazon’s Fire line of tablets are some of the cheapest Android-based tablets that are worth buying. The Fire HD 8, Fire HD 10, and Fire Max 11 have decent displays, affordable price tags, reasonably good battery life, and performance that’s more than good enough for reading eBooks, streaming videos, surfing the web, or even light gaming.

But while the tablets run an operating system that’s based on Android, Amazon’s FireOS is different in a few important ways. It has a custom user interface designed by Amazon that puts the company’s apps and services front and center. And it ships with the Amazon Appstore instead of the Google Play Store. Not only are fewer apps and games available in Amazon’s store, but if you already paid for an app or service on your Android phone, you’d have to pay again to get it from Amazon… unless you install the Google Play Store yourself. Because an open secret about Amazon’s tablets is that it’s possible to install Google’s app store on them. Keep in mind that there might be some compatibility issues – not all apps distributed in the Play Store will work perfectly on Amazon tablets. But many will.

Here’s a roundup of some of Liliputing’s guides to making Amazon Fire tablets more useful:

• Hack your Amazon Fire tablet with Fire Toolbox (Install Google Play, disable Amazon apps, and more) – This all-in-one tool has a lot of nifty functions. But it may be overkill if you just want to install the Play Store. So check out some of our device-specific guides below:
• How to install Google Play on Amazon Fire tablets (2023) – Originally written for the Fire HD 10 (9th-gen), this article provides step-by-step instructions for installing the Play Store manually or with Fire Toolbox on most recent Amazon Fire tablets.
• How to install the Google Play Store on the Amazon Fire Max 11 (2023) – This guide was written shortly after the Fire Max 11 was released, and provides instructions specifically for installing the Play Store on Amazon’s most powerful current-gen tablet.

• How to install Google Play on 12th-gen Amazon Fire tablets (2022 models running Fire OS 8) – While this guide for installing the Play Store on Fire 7 tablets was first published in 2022, it was updated with information relevant for all tablets running FireOS 8.

• How to sideload apps on Amazon Fire tablets (install apps that aren’t in the Amazon Appstore) – Don’t want to install the Play Store, but have an app or game or two that you want to install? This guide may help.
• Amazon Fire tablets: How to disable the Continue & Discover row on the home screen – Don’t want to replace the home screen & launcher app, but want to reclaim some real estate on the default home screen? This guide can help.

• How to use an SD card with Amazon’s Fire tablets – This guide describes how to use a microSD card as either removable storage, or as if it were internal storage (allowing you to install apps to the SD card, among other things).

Inky Frame 7.3″ is a 7-color ePaper display powered by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W [ CNX Software]

Available now for about $94, this kit features a 7.3 inch, 7-color E Ink display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels, a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, microSD card reader, and battery connector.

v24.12: The One With Androids & Cameras, But It’s Mainline Linux [postmarketOS]

PostmarketOS 24.12 is a mobile OS with a mainline Linux kernel. It brings initial support for using cameras on some phones (Pixel 3A, Fairphone 5, and Pocophone F1), UI updates, an updated wallpaper, and other improvements.

7-in-1 RGB Cooling Docking Station for handhelds [JSAUX]

This $60 docking station is designed for handheld gaming PCs. Sit your handheld in the cradle and use a USB-C connector to add Ethernet, HDMI, and more USB ports… as well as two cooling fans that help keep the PC from overheating while docked.

AOOSTAR GODX is a mini ITX mini PC with Ryzen 9 6900HX and Radeon RX 6600LE [AOOSTAR]

While the hardware is a few generations old at this point, it’s still a lot of power for a compact PC, including discrete graphics and support for up to three 4K/120 Hz displays. Available now for $529 and up, the system also supports up to 64GB of DDR5-4800 dual-channel memory, and two M.2 2280 slots for PCIe 4.0 storage. It has two 2.5 GbE LAN ports as well as USB4, USB 3.2 Type-A, DisplayPort, and HDMI ports, and it measures 200 x 193 x 80mm. Update: The AOOSTAR GODX is available from AliExpress for $503 and up. 

Keep up on the latest headlines by following Liliputing on Bluesky or @[email protected] on Mastodon. You can also follow Liliputing on Threads, Facebook, and X.

#amazon #amazonFire #aoostar #aoostarGodx #dock #eInk #epaper #fireMax11 #fireTablet #fireToolbox #inkyFrame #jsaux #lilbits #miniPc #postmarketos #raspberryPiPico2W

Lilbits: Pixel 8a could cost more than the Pixel 7a, and Surface Pro 10 could have an OLED display

Details about the Google Pixel 8a have been leaking for months, but launch day could be coming soon, as WinFuture has found product listings at some retail websites… including some references to the price tag, which indicate that Google’s next mid-range phone will be pricier than its last.
In other recent tech news from around the web, existing Pixel […]

https://liliputing.com/?p=167183

#chromecastWithGoogleTv #google #leaks #lilbits #microsoft #mobileLinux #pixel8a #postmarketos #rumors #surfaceLaptop6 #surfacePro10 #systemd

New blog post: Using the PinePhone Pro daily, despite having given up on it https://linmob.net/using-the-pinephone-pro-daily-despite-having-given-up-on-it/

#PinePhonePro #PinePhoneKeyboard #postmarketOS #microlaptop

The #librem11 is great so far, I've been giving #pureos a shot since it is #purism flagship distro -- there are things that I think need improvement -- like (a) some of the pureos apps are not as good as their #flatpak counterparts -- like for example flathub has #geany 2.0 while pureos is still 1.38 0 -- or (b) the native `gnome-calculator` app for some reason doesn't respect "Dark Theme" mode in #phosh -- same with #gedit -- the flatpak version needs to be installed by console (same with #epiphany).

I'm writing this from #tuba and i much prefer it to android #fediverse apps. #parabolic #xournal++ #gnome-maps #libreoffice #krita #gimp #discord #gimp #krita #mypaint all seem to be working just fine.

Having had no prior experience with #tablet sized devices with a keyboard, it wasn't obvious to me how the magnetic cover snaps to the back of the tablet in a λ kind of shape.

Contact sync with #nextcloud works as expected, and #geary email seems like a good fit for this size device, though I typically prefer #thunderbird -- I'm going to give that a try later.

#chatty seems clogged up when I try to login to my #matrix -- though I had a lot of rooms and person to person chats. I am thinking of installing the #flatpak version to see if that fixes it, but then that would seem odd to not use pureos version. It sometimes shows my rooms and contacts double in the left sidebar. Though I have been impressed when using my #librem5 and #postmarketos version of the app as I am new to it. It's a bit rough but seems to have come a long way.

Overall the device is pretty snappy, I have 6 apps open as I write this and it is doing just fine.

#cheese takes photos and videos just fine. I tried to get the #gnome "snapshot" "camera" app running but it doesn't automatically detect the cameras. I am not sure if this is because it is a flatpak or not. I enabled the permissions in #flatseal

I strongly recommend a wireless bluetooth mouse. I am using a inexpensive logitech m535 and it works great. Wifi, no complaints there.

I do think that the default apps in the pureos repos should either be updated or omitted as the default software source, suchas the #libreoffice package when intalled has a theme that makes it look like it's from the 1990s whereas the flatpak version is very nice.

I've been watching #linuxmobile over the last decade and I am presently surprised how far purism and the #linux and #foss people have come. Excellent work @ all. I think this is a great device to do development on as it runs much faster than my #pinephone and even my librem5. And it's not qemu, and the device seems easy enough to reflash -- one thing I especially like about the librem5 aswell when compared to other processes like fumbling through pmbootstrap to reflash #android to #lineageos
I am still trying to figure out what the best music app for this device is -- I do like #lollypop

Internal sound quality isn't amazing, but I wouldn't call it bad either when comparing to some of the other small form factor devices with mobile speakers I've owned. It's fine as a fallback but you are better off with a bluetooth headset to complement it or a tiny portable bluetooth speaker.

Some options like "scale apps to fullscreen" are not easy to find so I had to set a few options in dconf-editor. I think there is a app called "Mobile Settings" that might have it. Not all apps have the dialogs constrained inside the screen dimensions like the Geany Open dialog for example (which is understandable as this app hasn't targeted mobile or tablet yet as far as I know.)

I use the device to watch online videos, for instant messaging via matrix via #element / #schildichat and it does just fine. I haven't tested it with #zoom or anything but from what I've seen I'm sure it'd do just fine.

Epiphany "Install Website as App" is a great feature -- I have several I've added to my App Menu, Epiphany has always had trouble though being on the lean side. I do wish that I had this option on #firefox ESR, in any case I've just switched to #librewolf again as I prefer it.

I am interesting in comparing phosh to #gnomemobile as I might want to use that instead someday. I have used #plasmamobile and it's hard to put into words in some ways I like it more than phosh, and in other ways I am just not used to the apps -- some apps are just better out of box like their notes app, I like that they have a flashlight button in their top menu. Their UX scaling and fluidity is really good. I am glad that everything is doing such a good job and friendly competition will drive each side to keep improving.

I wasn't sure what to expect when I ordered this device on day 1, but I am glad I did. And as I don't have a laptop or like laptops or conventional smartphones very much for me this device is kindof a big deal that I can do basic #linux and #it things on the go along with communication and such without all the headache of android, ios or windows which is not a option for me as linux is just better.

If you think about the #privacy space -- the #libremboot #codeboot is pretty revolutionary to start to see these kinds of firmwares in all in one hardware. And of course this automatic disk encryption is a nice bonus though not something I need as a enthusiast unless maybe I want to travel with the device and protect my data.

People will have different criticisms, and opinions, and I may be easy-going but overall my opinion is that I am pleased with the utility the device offers and I think any rough edges will only get better in the software over time. I may switch the default distro eventually to do some more research and exploring in the linux mobile space -- but it's a little unclear who the big names are worth checking out. I did postmarketos for a while but I feel like the QA is a little all over the place and their package manager is a little difficult to use when I want to check the available software versions, and the phone space is such a mess to try to document and navigate if you are trying to use a previously android device.

I'm also interested in how the #starlabs #starlite5 will compare and contrast in the future. Having used this device I can't recommend something in this size without a keyboard and mouse for more complex usage, I didn't really undestand that the Librem11 keyboard is wired at first, but now that I have figured it out I prefer the simple tech vs overcomplication.

All in all, I think they have a winner, and I expect to get a lot of use out of this as a side rig to my main desktop. Would buy again, and excited to see all the software improvements coming downstream.