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Tagged #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap 3.10.0 last night. Highlights include the install command prompting for user password and "pmOS is already installed on this medium" much earlier so you don't have to babysit it, run0 support if sudo and doas aren't installed, and UEFI boot by default for QEMU.
Other than that, lots of smaller bug fixes and enhancements as well as technical debt being cleaned up. Big thanks to all the new contributors who showed up to help out with this!
Do you think "downstream" ports are useful in #postmarketOS? I'm especially interested in your reasons if you answered "Yes".
Do you think "downstream" ports are useful in #postmarketOS? I'm especially interested in your reasons if you answered "Yes".
If you're interested in a semi-beginner friendly contribution opportunity in #postmarketOS, we currently have an issue with using Podman/Distrobox in the Console terminal emulator. @craftyguy@freeradical.zone already investigated it and found a probable root cause, so either just verifying his hypothesis or sending an actual fix upstream would be helpful!
See https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/work_items/4469 for more information.
#postmarketOS #pmbootstrap users: Do you have any use for the "quiet" feature enabled by the -q argument and if so why haven't you complained about it being broken for the last two years? 😅
If you're interested in beginner-friendly tasks for contributing to #postmarketOS in #Python, #pmbootstrap has some clean-ups that need to be done—in particular, migrating the remaining commands from the legacy frontend.py to the new "commands" module.
See https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/commit/7df1ab11218dfbf4797dfb3ef896f3a060749549 for an example. Essentially, each command should have its own .py file and take a list of arguments instead of the whole "args" namespace.
I've been bugged by some of the #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap subcommand names for a while, so I decided to finally write my thoughts down in an issue: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/work_items/2745
Any thoughts or suggestions are more than welcome. Hearing others' experiences and thoughts about this would be great.
Does anyone have an actual use-case for the "pmbootstrap apkindex_parse" subcommand? Asking because apparently it was broken for over a year and no one seemed to complain 😅
W.r.t. #accessibility of #postmarketOS, I'm thinking maybe we should have some sort of flashing lights warning for the #PinePhone given that—at least on my device—the panel sometimes starts flashing rapidly on startup? Of course this is a bug that should be fixed but perhaps it would be good to figure out how we can present information like this since presumably it won't be the last time we have bugs that affect accessibility.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @jzb@hachyderm.io You can run most if not all Wayland compositors without 3D acceleration provided your Linux kernel is new enough to provide SimpleDRM. But, given your profile picture maybe you don't use Linux?
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@Oleksii@social.linux.pizza It just makes pmbootstrap not output any log messages. It's in pmbootstrap --help.
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@cmyrland@tutoteket.no Jag har endast kunskap om postmarketOS tyvärr :) det är svårt att rekommendera någon specifik telefon då man aldrig riktigt vet vem som kommer jobba på vad om några år, men Motorola Edge 30 är ett alternativ som delar mycket hårdvara med Fairphone 5 och därmed har rätt bra chans att stödjas väl. Men den är bara lite billigare än Fairphone 5.
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@cmyrland@tutoteket.no Beror på hur mycket den får kosta. Bästa alternativet för postmarketOS just nu är nog Pixel 3a men den är rätt gammal vid det här laget. Bästa alternativet om något år eller två lär vara Fairphone 5 men den är knappast billig.
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@ncopa@fosstodon.org Removing armv7 would have major impact on postmarketOS as we still have many people actively working on devices with such CPUs. On the contrary armhf is pretty much dead.
Would be pretty cool to repurpose an old tablet to make your own departure sign for your closest public transport sign. I found that my local public transport company has a web version of their signs on URLs like this one: https://avgangar.ostgotatrafiken.se/tinnerbacksbadet?size=large
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@heiseonline@social.heise.de Yeah, I had to pull out my Android phone just to buy tickets last time 🙃 Spending hundreds of Euros on tickets over the last few years isn't enough proof that I'm human?
Is there any easy way to just put a web link in a directory in #GNOME with #Nautilus for organisational purposes? Like if I have a directory with files relating some particular task and I also have a link that's very relevant to this task, is there any way I can have a file that opens a given link in a browser when tapped on? Generally I think this would be handled by desktop files, but it doesn't look like Nautilus cares about them. And they're not very convenient to make.
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@BioGeoBryce@fediscience.org @michammel@mastodon.social @Ruth_Mottram@fediscience.org @chuuchuu@toot.community ChuuChuu is nice but EU-wide is a stretch. We have 27 member states and it covers 9 of them (though Cyprus and Malta don't have any railways at all so they can be counted out).
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@jane@smolhaj.social @ptrc@social.treehouse.systems @aelin@donotsta.re @cas@social.treehouse.systems @pabloyoyoista@social.treehouse.systems It won't be an e.V. most likely but we are working on getting a legal entity.
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@ROllerozxa@hachyderm.io I've no problem with that part. What bugs me is that some subset of the moderators on some of the sites seem insistent on being as unhelpful as possible.
Whenever I make the mistake of thinking that Stack Exchange is good actually and people just need to get it I'm swiftly proven wrong.
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Apparently as a nice side-effect a newer version of this MR than what was described here also unintentionally works around a bug in old versions of sudo-rs that broke pmbootstrap install on Ubuntu 25.10!
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@decibyte@social.data.coop Yes, although I would avoid dealing with the "install" subcommand right now as it needs some further refactoring before it can be migrated like this. The others should be simpler, I think.
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@decibyte@social.data.coop Happy to answer any questions you might have, just ping me in the postmarketOS devel channel on Matrix or IRC. Alternatively you can open a draft MR on GitLab and I'll probably see it soon.
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@CleoMenezesJr@floss.social Might be controversial but lack of focus. There's lots of different phones and UIs being worked on and the PinePhone really showed what focusing our efforts can do for reliability and progress.
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@datenwolf@chaos.social @mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org @jzb@hachyderm.io I'm responding to one specific concern. I'm neither missing the point nor building a strawman. I have no interest in engaging with the broader Wayland debate right now.
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I vote for that we rename the conference to SandalPineConf 2027 for next year.
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@fisherdude @dos Looks like our package needs to be updated to 0.24.0 (I'm guessing that's the version being showed off), currently we're on 0.23.0: https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/blob/eb7979e69969829058ab0858c88ed8a6234719c3/community/millipixels/APKBUILD#L4
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@chuuchuu@toot.community Linköping in a few years if the current municipal government gets their way 🙄
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@jacobscharmberg@mastodon.world Is this something you've done yourself and found useful?
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@Logical_Error@fosstodon.org AI morality aside, does this require the kernels to be packaged in pmOS? It sounds like you're just using the source code as reference which doesn't require any packaging?
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@lottie@social.vlhl.dev You mean when the legal system hadn't caught up to digitalisation
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@vivi@floss.social Looks really cool! Do you have any plans to upstream this as a UI package?
Man the Google AI really lost it this time.
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@Logical_Error@fosstodon.org Do you find that there is any particular reason why you'd use downstream pmOS over LineageOS for this purpose?
Nonsense
"pahole" really sounds like a euphemism for something but I'm not sure what.
I want to extend a big thank you to Oormila Raveendran Andaythu (unfortunately no fedi account) for making an introductory tutorial on how to make your first #MobileLinux app as her master's thesis and presenting it at the first PCM this May. Developer documentation like this is something we're sorely missing and could use much more of. Find a published version of it here: https://oormila94.codeberg.page/ (probably something we should link to somewhere in the #postmarketOS documentation)
Trying out @chuuchuu@toot.community for some journey planning and some results are puzzling. E.g. how does this get a 100 ChuuChuu score when the average delay would result in a missed transfer: https://chuuchuu.com/journey/eJxtjsENgzAMRVfh4AG-HZuEQ6QgRAVqb2WBTtcNGCCTgVALaeHf_pP8n_M83Mc8TzdqI6dHDICYNukVWUI6IFj9FwqkRiNO2FlRzIiIaUt-T9e3H7hROQ_aPqhY36D-WRVRr1eG37ECQv8Miho4ioejsSsNJmE3LF4kPTA
