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@fizzo@chaos.social you find the gdk-pixbuf patches I mentioned at the top of this MR: https://salsa.debian.org/BengalOS-team/pkgs/gdk-pixbuf/-/merge_requests/2

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Federico Izzo (@fizzo@chaos.social) - chaos.social

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· 1mo ago

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@okias@floss.social Let me grab that click bait 🤭 : There are people that have other priorities like the amount of firmware on the device, separation of components on the PCB, no proprietary hypervisors, full control over all bootloaders, etc. So I think as a community we have interest in devices like the @pine64@social.treehouse.systems #PinePhone's or @purism@social.librem.one 's #Librem5 to continue. It's also good to have devices that ship Linux out of the box.

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· 2mo ago

Got Phosh's immutable BengalOS to boot on a Google Pixel 3A. There's quiet a bit of work left to make that usable but I'm already looking forward to try some of Phosh's features for immutable on a real device rather than a VM image. This is only possible due to the immense work of @mobian@fosstodon.org and @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems . #Phosh #BengalOS #LinuxMobile #immutable #mkosi

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· 5mo ago

Dear #gitlab a Work Item is not something I want to be concerned with in #FreeSoftware stuff I do in my free time. Can't we have names that are more motivating like "Puzzles to solve"?

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· 5mo ago

With a bit of #blur in #phoc we can have more vivid backgrounds while text still remains easy to read. As this happens on the compositor side there's basically no performance impact (but we rely on two small, not yet merged wlroots patches). This is mostly groundwork for more things to come.

#phosh #LinuxMobile

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@okias@floss.social Nice! In order to make this sustainable and support it long term we need more devices for continuous testing so let me mention our "Back from the drawer campaign": https://social.phosh.mobi/@ev/statuses/01KY2BHCXD13QBVKSWMZ81KG3A

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Phosh.mobi e.V. (@ev@social.phosh.mobi)

[1 media attachment] Diesen Sommer kehren die vergessenen Telefone aus den Schubladen zurück. Ihr habt ein altes Smartphone in der Schublade, benutzt es nicht mehr und kommt zur #froscon2026 ? Wir nehmen viele Modelle gerne um ihnen neues Leben einzuhauchen. Danach benutzen wir sie als Vorführmodelle mit #Phosh oder geben sie an unsere Entwickler weiter um damit #LinuxMobile voran zu bringen. Bringt sie gerne bei unserem Stand auf der @FrOSCon vorbei. Modelle wie OnePlus 6(T), Pocophone F1, S

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This still needs a bunch of work in Phosh and in GTK but it's a major step for us.

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· 6mo ago

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There's more work needed to make this usable (we don't have arm64 docker containers of vosk-server and it's not in any distros but most of it is in alpine already). There's also room for improvement regarding the recognition (it likes to guess "the" when there's no input as you can see at the end of the video). If you want to help out, jump into https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/stevia/-/merge_requests/279 . Thanks to dogman in the FLX1 channel for mentioning vosk which led me to vosk-server.

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@isyourbrainFOSS@mastodon.social Whether it becomes daily drivable (as often in Free Software) depends to a large degree on what people make out of it (i.e. contribute patches). We also learned that nobody takes you seriously if you don't have something to download but that's a totally different story, people have been conditioned by iOS and Android, and we can't simply undo that. 2/2 @phosh@social.phosh.mobi @mobian@fosstodon.org @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems

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· 2mo ago

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@isyourbrainFOSS@mastodon.social Having device support is necessary to test drive some of @phosh@social.phosh.mobi 's features for immutable as there are some limitations to what you can do in a VM and some problem's only come up in certain setups (like all the firmware issues on qcom) and you only get a "feel" if it works alright if you use it daily. As one purpose is to make current development branches available easily targeting immutable is a good fit too as you can roll back without issues. 1/2 @mobian@fosstodon.org @postmarketOS@social.treehouse.systems

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· 5mo ago

The USB-C port on my @nitrokey@social.nitrokey.com pro 3 just fell off completely after just over one year of use.

Looking at the soldering that doesn't look surprising. Can someone recommend a more sturdy replacement to hold #GPG keys, uses USB-C and works well on #Debian ?

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One thing that bothered me since some time is that for switching between different 🎶 players required to🔓 the 📱 .

So e.g. pausing #gnome podcasts to listen to music via #gapless needed ever so many steps. I've thus added a lockscreen plugin to #phosh that tracks all currently running media players that use #mpris and allows to interact with them.

This is all pretty rough still but I can hopefully brush it up for 0.48 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1729).

#LinuxMobile

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· 2mo ago

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@gnome@floss.social Cool stuff 👍

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@janvlug I think we can't have enough blog posts and talks about that, ppl still think it's not possible to use a close to mainline #Linux phone in 2026 although we're doing it for many years now (see also e.g. @devrtz 's talk from 2025 https://www.linuxday.at/5-jahre-meines-lebens-mit-mobile-linux-smartphones (in German)).

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5 Jahre meines Lebens mit 'Mobile Linux' Smartphones | LinuxDay

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· 17mo ago

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·..and here's how the volume controls currently look in mobile settings. We get the list of controls from #wireplumber too and #phosh's volume slider gets the highest priority volume so the top panel's volume slider does "the right thing" by default. (I've linked the related MRs from https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/meta-phosh/-/issues/20)

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· 6mo ago

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Maybe there are other engines we should consider and that also work via websocket or something similar?

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· 9mo ago

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@dubstar_04@fosstodon.org @jbowen@mast.hpc.social At least the Librem 5 and Pinephone do (I'm using the Liberm 5 for half a decade for that now), both are mainline devices. I don't have first hand experience with a Pixel 3A regarding phone calls but there are people in the Mobian channels using it as their only phone (including phone calls): https://phosh.mobi/about/features/#fn:27 (in this case with suspend disabled).

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· 5mo ago

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@chris Man sollte aber vielleicht dazu sagen, das Linux auf z.B. einem alten OnePlus6 auszuprobieren nicht sehr schwierig ist. Dualboot ist hier das "komplizierte". @glatzle06 @annyhartmann

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@glatzle06 Ob das geht hängt sehr stark vom Gerät ab. @me hat das mit einem SHIFT6mq auf unserem Stand auf dem #CLT26 gezeigt (https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/blog/clt-2026/) und wir sind voraussichtlich auch wieder auf der #Froscon2026. Komm gerne vorbei, falls Du in der Nähe bist. @annyhartmann

Phosh.mobi auf den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2026

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Phosh.mobi auf den Chemnitzer Linux-Tagen 2026

Eindrücke von unserem Stand auf dem CLT 2026

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· 10mo ago

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@tbernard@mastodon.social our experience as @ev@social.phosh.mobi when talking to policy makers on these topics are:

We're doing it later as non-US cloud is already hard enough (most common one)
They're not aware (basically ignoring what they're using every day)
They think it's the easy part as long as the apps they develop are #OpenSource for Android

…but I'm positive that we can move some goal posts in 2026 in that regard.

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· 16mo ago

If you ever wanted to write a #QuickSetting or #LockScreen plugin for #phosh but didn't fancy #GObject C: Here's an example in #vala : https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/1727

#ValaLanguage

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MR is here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/merge_requests/338

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· 6mo ago

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@Oleksii Can you unfold the keyboard via long press (check phosh-tour)? Does flipping "ignore hardware keyboard" to off seem to fix it? Is ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD set in udev for the device?

Regarding getting in touch: https://phosh.mobi/faq/#where-can-i-ask-questions

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· 5mo ago

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@nivea It wont help much as the restyle depends on apps picking up the theme changes, not the compositor drawing them differently so our best bets are currently: reduce number of transitions, speed up the transition itself. Where it can help is e.g. a grescale mode. That's compositor driven and we can blend into that.

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· 6mo ago

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@ch2500 yeah, it's a reminiscent. Right above that line is as:

export GRACE_PRINT_CMD='lp -d popper '

That's how long I drag that stuff around 🙃

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· 6mo ago

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@Oleksii But that means your yubikey identifies as a keyboard, that's something that should get fixed.

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· 11mo ago

@affe_null The Librem5's M4 core is mostly unused under Linux and could also benefit here to handle some things in suspend. Maybe call it openmcp as it is currently for M* cores and hints at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Tron_(franchise)_characters#Master_Control_Program 😃

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· 7mo ago

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@schmiddionmobile Thanks for maintaining it over all those years!

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· 16mo ago

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@DrewNaylor@mastodon.online @CalcProgrammer1@mastodon.social That's why stevia supports --allow-replacement. Someone would just need to fix https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/squeekboard/-/issues/361 and it would be simple to switch back and forth in the running session between different keyboards (I do it all the time between stevia development and stable versions)

So it's all possible, relevant keyboards just need to follow along.

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· 10mo ago

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RE: https://pan.rent/@tommi/115666403419581575 @matthewcroughan@social.defenestrate.it @colin@fed.uninsane.org @z3ntu@fosstodon.org Regarding audio see https://ruhr.social/@tommi@pan.rent/115666403627197896 RT: https://pan.rent/users/tommi/statuses/115666403419581575

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Tommi 🤯: "Audio is working for #PostmarketOS on #Fairphone5…" - Pan

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· 17mo ago

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@Glenlivet @pi_crew As with other things (cellbroadcast, sensors, notch support, hatpic, LEDs, …) we aim to implement the common bits in a desktop environment agnostic way and we'll try the same with this one. It's then up to the respective DEs (the gnome-shell fork in this case) whether they want to pick it up.

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· 16mo ago

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@danialbehzadi Not from my side atm (multiple reasons but first of all I've seen too many python GTK apps block on GIL and we don't want to have that in the shell). If someone comes up with something clean though, why not

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· 17mo ago

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@diederickdevries Wakeup for calls/SMS etc already works on all devices I'm aware of, L5 and PP do this since ages. The issue with QCom devices is that they wake up *too* *often* (e.g. on GSM Cell strength changes), that's why it is disabled by default on these. There's ModemManager mrs working towards fixing this. Waking up for "notifications" (which in fact is working up on push notifications) is another matter that needs device dependent fixes (or periodic wakeups) as workaround.

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· 17mo ago

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@pi_crew check the linked issue (it has the details on such things)

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· 5mo ago

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@OSBA@social.osb-alliance.de @BMDS@social.bund.de Wir helfen mit unserem @ev@social.phosh.mobi gerne bei der souveränen Digitalität auf Mobiltelefonen. Obwohl sie das Interface zu den meisten Services sind werden sie gerne übersehen.

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· 5mo ago

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@nivea Sorry for being dense here but can you help me understand the relation between automatic HC theme switching based on ambient (which is already there) and background blur?

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· 17mo ago

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@wallaby We're currently using the default from the fdo sound theme. If you want to try something else that would be great, relevant repo is at https://gitlab.gnome.org/guidog/phosh-wallpapers/-/tree/main/sounds?ref_type=heads

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· 6mo ago

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@benjistokman You mean for the enable/disable button? I think we want a keybinding and maybe an indicator in Phosh's top-bar (rather than the OSK) so we can save that screen estate? That would allow to hide the on screen keyboard also on mobile if one wants text input only. Does that make sense?

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· 5mo ago

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@devrtz@fosstodon.org Petition hierzu: https://epetitionen.bundestag.de/petitionen/_2026/_03/_22/Petition_196912.$$$.a.u.html

epetitionen.bundestag.de

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· 5mo ago

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@claudi @andrewg Thanks for the suggestion! Can I ask which yubikey models the two of you are using?

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· 6mo ago

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@DF5RE Thanks for the hint, we want OSK integration on mobile I guess so you can use it everywhere you input text. That frees apps from caring about support and it's the same (switchable) engine for all inputs. I had looked at the engines used by speech note before and whisper will be an additional one we want to add to stevia once vosk is working properly.

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· 5mo ago

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@nitrokey Will do, thanks!

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