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Tip: if your phone doesn't have a notification LED, it is broken or not yet supported by the kernel you can use the camera flash 📸 :

#peertube:https://peertube.debian.social/w/h6sSCuAZDfSQHuBJfaceCG

#youtube: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/6IbIR2jw6-4

#LinuxMobile #phosh #feedbackd

06.03.2026 17:04 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

eclexic (@theeclecticdyslexic@mstdn.social) #Heliboard is gathering gesture typing data, so that we can implement a #FOSS alternative to the closed gesture typing library Heliboard currently relies on. The data we collect will be released under the CC BY-SA 4.0 I also made a video including details & instructions. Boosts Please! The greater the diversity of people & languages in the data, the better we can test for correctness. PT: https://makertube.net/w/cQECfDkuLGR9eUQquUEo4K YT: https://youtu.be/CyjumVTWtJA Text (instructions only): https://github.com/Helium314/HeliBoard/wiki/Tutorial:-How-to-Contribute-Gesture-Data

This will also help #LinuxMobile as well. There'are rumors that this might get integrated into #stevia:

https://mstdn.social/@theeclecticdyslexic/116169411669556587

04.03.2026 18:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on mastodon.nu

I just opened a merge request to #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap making some changes to the UX of the install subcommand, in particular prompting you about install disk issues much earlier and also informing about that without the --password argument you'll be prompted to manually enter it later […]

03.03.2026 11:01 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

NLnet; Dual SIM for Mobile Linux

Looking forward to work with #modemmanager upstream on improving dual SIM support in our #LinuxMobile stack: https://nlnet.nl/project/Linux-MultiSIM/ .

Thanks a lot to @NGIZero for supporting this!

#phosh #gnome

02.03.2026 15:14 👍 2 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Add mobile only preference toggle. by AlexanderVanhee · Pull Request #1187 · kolunmi/bazaar This toggle is only visible when at mobile resolutions (or when its already enabled) to reduce clutter in the preferences menu. The Flathub page looks quite bad as many categories aren't filled...

This is so cool: https://github.com/kolunmi/bazaar/pull/1187

Now we just need to make sure all the mobile-friendly apps have proper appstream metadata!

02.03.2026 16:44 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Development News February 2026 Here’s our second development progress update for 2026. This can still be a bit spotty, if you find something missing please provide a merge request. So what happened last month: The 0.53 release is a larger part but there’s also progress in syncthing integration, workspace support, first-boot and Asian language support in the on screen keyboard. Want to try this out already? See below. phosh Link to heading A shell for mobile devices

Our development summary for February is up: https://phosh.mobi/posts/development-news-2026-02/ .

#LinuxMobile #Phosh

02.03.2026 15:16 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

i've been pretty quiet regarding work stuff lately, but finally have something to share!

here we have Qualcomm display drivers up and running, demo'd on the Ayaneo Pocket S2, but it also works on the SM8650 HDK.

This isn't relying on an existing […]

[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

01.03.2026 07:39 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks 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.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (09/2026): Sovereign Stacks

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-09-2026/

#Modal #Phosh #SailfishOS #UbuntuTouch #ModalCollective #postmarketOS #Catacomb #LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #PlasmaMobile #FuriLabs #FuriOS #Droidian #Mobian

01.03.2026 22:39 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on fosstodon.org

Today we can celebrate Maps' 13:th birthday

This was the first commit in the Git repo

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6a238dd80d34fa0e4f775ff296106ccbe371988e
Author: Mattias Bengtsson <mattias.jc.bengtsson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri Mar 1 23:22:34 2013 +0100

README. First commit […]

01.03.2026 21:13 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

New idea: Neobank specifically for digital sovereignty, from the app running on Linux/without SafetyNet and other nonsense to the servers running on local infrastructure

28.02.2026 08:25 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

People need banking and payment apps to work on Linux mobile for it to work. Obviously to only real "fix" for this is a regulatory one that declares SafetyNet a monopolistic control mechanism, which it is.

28.02.2026 08:31 👍 13 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1

[Video] Original post on social.phosh.mobi

We just landed initial support for Chinese (via pinyin) and Japanese (via anthy / romaji) in #Phosh's on screen keyboard #stevia using #uim 🥳

As our current maintainers don't speak / write these languages we appreciate testing feedback and people joining development so we can improve things […]

28.02.2026 16:12 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on social.phosh.mobi

Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳.

Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and the #LinuxMobile ecosystem, working towards user friendly #DigitalFreedom and #DigitalIndependence (nowadays often called #DigitalSovereignity) […]

27.02.2026 13:25 👍 1 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Post by Phosh.mobi e.V., @ev@social.phosh.mobi Time flies 🚀: Exactly one year ago we had our association's founding meeting 🥳. Looking forward to the next year of developing and promoting #Phosh and t…

Just had the annual meeting of @phosh e.V. It is now already one year since the founding meeting. It is great to see the progress by the #phosh contributors. Thank you all! 👏

https://social.phosh.mobi/@ev/statuses/01KJFMC950JFC27FF67E4NF6GQ

27.02.2026 20:48 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on mastodon.social

You know, I don't actually agree that using an LLM to edit code should be banned by a project. Sure, running it on autopilot, yes. But as an editor? No. Being able to say search for a symbol without knowing it's name exactly or start a big semantic search and replace or copying and filling out a […]

26.02.2026 20:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

We have updated our AI policy to explicitly forbid generative AI. This and more in our latest monthly blog post "postmarketOS in 2026-02: generic kernels" :zoop:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2026/02/26/pmOS-update-2026-02/

#linuxmobile #postmarketos

26.02.2026 19:56 👍 10 🔁 33 💬 1 📌 1

Fix examples after move to Codeberg While testing the Flatpak builds after the Codeberg move, I noticed that `flatpak-builder` was failing with "File exists" errors for all examples that use `go replace` to build against the locally checked out puregotk code. During the move to Codeberg, this: ```go module github.com/jwijenb...

#puregotk has moved to Codeberg! I've just opened the first PR to it: https://codeberg.org/puregotk/puregotk/pulls/42

Gosh it is nice to have a usable signal/noise ratio on a forge again ...

26.02.2026 09:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on social.kernel.org

Autofocus with #libcamera is fun. You are attempting to tune AF to do something, and while doing that you realize that a) AE does not really work, and b) there's memory leak of GPU memory or something, so if you keep playing with focus for too long, system is hosed in a way application restart […]

26.02.2026 10:28 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

This is my review of the FLX1 phone from @FuriLabs. I've been using this phone for about 3 years as a daily driver. I am very happy with it! My banking app works, which is great, Android apps work very well in general. Plenty of settings and updates are […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]

24.02.2026 22:05 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0

Does anyone use a #OnePlus6T with @postmarketOS on it ?

If so I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences?

#OnePlus6T #PMos

23.02.2026 14:33 👍 0 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Weekly GNU-like Mobile Linux Update (08/2026): Touch Your Wrist 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.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (08/2026): Touch Your Wrist

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-08-2026/

#LinuxMobile #LinuxOnMobile #AsteroidOS #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Mobian #postmarketOS #Mobian #FuriOS #Phosh

22.02.2026 23:36 👍 0 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Motorola Moto G7 (motorola-river) - postmarketOS Wiki

For this weekend of #postmarketOS #linuxmobile #mainlining I have put together what I had for the Moto G7 into a coherent pull request to @barni2000's msm8953 linux repo. No exciting pictures since nothing visually changed :) just that you will be able to install it too very soon!

22.02.2026 04:06 👍 1 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

#OpenSource protip: Before submitting a PR for review, look at the diff and give yourself a review first

18.02.2026 16:15 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

Connecting the world through thriving online communities Over the past couple of decades, the concept of the “social” internet has come a long way - from the first interactive websites and the Web 2.0 era, blogs and self-publishing, the ability for people to create and share their own content online, through microblogging to broadcasting at scale. Today, what we know as “social media” is having a huge impact on society - often, taken advantage of in unhealthy ways. We believe that the open social web can be better than this. We’ve seen the _positive_ impact that online social platforms can have, and we treat our roles as builders of resources in this space with great responsibility. Our focus on community ownership, trust & safety features, organic user & server growth, and financial sustainability - for the non-profit project, the server administrators, the moderators, the developers and translators, and the creators in the Fediverse - will enable us to build a better way of being online. To begin, we sat down together to figure out who we are, what we do, and how we operate. This is a first step in building community ownership and governance, which we kicked off in November last year. We may seem to be moving slowly compared to our better funded competitors and even friends in our space, but we think this is the right speed for something as important as the digital fabric of our society. Today we’re sharing our Vision, Mission, and the Pillars for our 2026 strategy. ## Our vision > A human-centred social web that serves the common good. ## Our mission > Connect the world through thriving online communities. ## Our strategy Here’s how we’re going to do it: ### Governance: Create obvious pathways and opportunities for the social web community to help shape the future of Mastodon First, we will finalise a governance model that makes everyone feel consulted and informed about the future of Mastodon. Second, we’re forming and founding an EU-based non-profit parent entity to ensure Mastodon stays European forever. Third, we are developing a funding strategy to reach sustainable operations, including building capabilities into Mastodon that allow users to donate easily without leaving the app. Fourth, we will be moving more of our team and project infrastructure to open platforms for greater autonomy - with the first example being a migration (soon) from Discord to Zulip for our community discussions. Finally, we are investing in our internal systems, to remain a welcoming and well-functioning workplace for our team. ### Network Health: Redefine what it means to be safe on Mastodon Everyone on today’s internet is directly exposed to regulations like GDPR, the Digital Services Act (DSA), the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and lately numerous age verification (or assurance) laws and related social media bans for minors. We will perform a regulatory audit to ensure full legal compliance of our own servers, and explore how this knowledge can be shared with the community. We are also forming an interdisciplinary age-verification working group, to help us navigate the complex nature of these international laws. Simultaneously, the team will draft and publish new community guidelines and moderation policies for the servers we operate. Additionally, we are updating the terms of service (we ran a community consultation on this in October 2025) and privacy policy for our own servers. ### Product & Ecosystem Growth: Build a beautiful and intuitive social networking application that helps people discover the fediverse and find their friends The Mastodon project is planning a global redesign to improve usability and discovery across the next software versions. These releases will include shipping our extension capabilities to all servers (initiated thanks to the EU-funded “Fediscovery” project); creating a specification for automated content detection; and establishing processes to support network growth and health. Additionally, the team will focus on improvements for server administrators, by making Mastodon easier to install, update, and administer, with efforts to reduce hosting costs and enhance documentation. Over the next two days, my fellow directors will share more information about their plans for the coming year. Stay tuned, and let us know what you think about this plan by posting to us on Mastodon via @mastodon@mastodon.social or by sending us an email.

Today we're sharing the first in a series of three posts from our leadership team, starting with @mellifluousbox discussing our mission, and priorities for 2026. Stay tuned this week for more.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/connecting-the-world-through-thriving-online-communities/

17.02.2026 16:25 👍 7 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 7

Original post on mastodon.nu

#Megapixels 2.1.0 was just merged into #postmarketOS Edge, including a fix to make it work out-of-the-box again on the original #PinePhone! Performance is not as good as it used as it relies on software rendering to be but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main […]

17.02.2026 15:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

A github screenshot showing a repo with the message "a user you've blocked has previous contributed to this repository"

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

This allows you to, the moment you look at a repo, immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

17.02.2026 11:38 👍 318 🔁 163 💬 2 📌 1

Of course the real question on everyone's mind is "does it run Xonotic?" and the answer is, quite well for a low end phone! For this —as opposed to handling GTK UI heh— the tier of the GPU matters more than the generation, fwiw.

#postmarketOS

17.02.2026 03:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

phew, @verdre and I just finally got Jolla Android appsupport up with Android 13 on #postmarketOS after a few too many late nights

still suuuuper broken but hopefully we'll soon get back to the state we were in with Android 11 last year. Maybe we'll […]

[Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

16.02.2026 15:46 👍 2 🔁 8 💬 3 📌 0

A lot of almost finished pocket reform laptops and RCORE carrier boards on my table

The first RCORE batch of 2026 and some Pocket Reforms for Crowd Supply are shipping soon 💪🏻👩🏼‍🏭

16.02.2026 13:30 👍 0 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0

Original post on linuxmobile.social

No new apps today, but some nice updates to existing apps:

https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/re.fossplant.songrec/ is now GTK4/libadwaita and works well on mobile - go shazam that song you don't recall artist and title of

https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/com.ranfdev.lobjur/ has been updated and […]

16.02.2026 12:09 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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