Posts by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
(DIR) Post #Ai6ctyYDIGuErpdwLg by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2024-05-21T05:19:21Z
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@m0xee @cas @Aaron Halium _is_ libhybris, just a more ready-to-go version of if.
(DIR) Post #AiFxIl8U3QHG0ULJjM by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2024-05-25T17:20:01Z
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@Linux I don't mind a subscription at all, it's a solid way to keep developers employed. What I do have a problem with is the proprietary parts (which is more than AOSP!). Yeah they promise to open-source it, but they have since the beginning and I still don't see it.I had the first Jolla Phone for 4 years and even back then there was "the promise". I'm still waiting.
(DIR) Post #Ak3NZY2VJsKIsRrm1w by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2024-07-18T09:38:21Z
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Since my last blog post describing how I started daily driving #PlasmaMobile has gotten quite a bit of attention, I decided to give a talk about my experiences with it at this year's #Akademy2024! https://conf.kde.org/event/6/contributions/225/Day 2, come and watch!
(DIR) Post #ApZrUVWXUEjY181PcG by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2024-12-30T16:54:08Z
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@publiclewdness It would help if they at least, like a good FOSS project would, upstream whatever is needed to the relevant projects. Is there a PR yet to whatever settings application that is to add that toggle?
(DIR) Post #AxzQ7H6wAUEL6VDqk4 by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-09-08T07:46:34Z
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@strypey @postmarketOS @mobian @linmob@linuxmobile.social @linmob@lemmy.ml So... #Flatpak? That already exists and works.
(DIR) Post #AySjKLHrcy6ClXy8dU by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-09-21T12:16:19Z
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@creatures @furilabs MediaTek, so Halium. Honestly, Halium and thus no mainline seems to be the whole thing of Furilabs.It's a disappointment because of it.
(DIR) Post #AySjKMeaXxs30JbnhA by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-09-21T19:10:21Z
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@alaraajavamma @creatures @furilabs I can not run postmarketOS with proper Plasma Mobile on it because of the Halium requirement, so no "I have not tried it".Not going for mainline is a fundamentally important choice that makes a bunch of software I'd like to run not an option, so it's worth complaining about.
(DIR) Post #AySjKNbR1AwTwp8nQ0 by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-09-22T09:29:40Z
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@alaraajavamma @creatures @furilabs No, you can not run Plasma on Halium. That is, the entirety of it. Sure you can swap out the compositor (KWin) for something that does support Halium like Furilabs seem to be doing but then you're missing a _major_ component of the desktop and the experience just won't be the same (and is in fact unsupported upstream).And KWin did support Halium in the past but it was deemed too much of a maintenance burden and a hack, which is the story for all of Halium.
(DIR) Post #AySjKO1fRdvTGBPkJ6 by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-09-22T09:31:14Z
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@alaraajavamma @creatures @furilabs I'd love to not "fight", but the problem is that Halium in my eyes (and a lot of other people) is contra-productive and gets us further away from our goals.We don't fight between Phosh, GNOME Mobile and Plasma Mobile as an example because they don't conflict with each other, but Halium and mainline do.
(DIR) Post #AyjN9oO10etlwJMkNs by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-09-30T06:43:22Z
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@don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg It would help if you'd stop calling it "sideloading" and just used the normal term "installing".Also, stop using Android. The only real option is moving away, use #MobileLinux.
(DIR) Post #AykxqVS14tZvAjr4Lo by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-10-01T06:08:00Z
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@gryzor @don_atoms @marcprux @fdroidorg Calling people you don't agree with a clown, now that's productive.Honestly, why the hate? You're free to not use it, but you could be happy that some people are at least trying to break the duopoly. Also, calling does work for a bunch of devices. Sure, not for all of them, but it's getting there.Let's work together on a better world rather than just negativity on people actively trying to improve things.
(DIR) Post #AzFbXS3tHOra4Fpx7A by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-10-15T10:00:06Z
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https://www.fsf.org/news/librephone-project#FSF announces the #LibrePhone project, and, shockingly, it's a joke. While the intention to reverse engineer proprietary firmware is applaudable, going with Android for this and thus interfacing with the downstream kernel is a waste of time.What good is software freedom when you're still relying on the goodwill and development of a big tech company.#Android is dead in the water and it's time people caring about software freedom and privacy realize this.
(DIR) Post #AzGasMECG7SPGA1ReC by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-10-16T05:22:00Z
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@tasket @fun They're not reverse engineering drivers, it's firmware. Drivers would actually be useful as they could be ported to mainline Linux then. Now they're trying to replace firmware which you can't load due to secure boot anyway, and using Android of all platforms as a reference so it won't actually interface with Linux mobile.I mean, good luck to them but it's a waste of effort. Android is not a "free" platform, even though the licence says it is.
(DIR) Post #AzGbLOWsmVvsnMbmfw by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-10-15T20:28:03Z
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@sandro I mean, #postmarketOS and #mobian already _are_ daily drivers for a bunch of people.Does it need any size userbase at all to be viable? Not really.Yes Linux mobile has a long way to go before it can "beat" Android and iOS, if ever, but for the enthusiastic among us you _can_ already use it as a daily driver and it will only get better.
(DIR) Post #AzGkkuusP5Sa4K4mq8 by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-10-16T14:16:10Z
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@Suiseiseki @fun @tasket Except that Replicant hasn't updated to a recent version of Android for ages, does not run on _any_ currently relevant device, and is severely understaffed.Don't get me wrong, if it was at any way feasible to use currently I'd use it over my LineageOS install, but the sad reality is that it's not. They have the same problem as any other Android ROM: fully dependent on this huge monolithic OS developed by a big tech company.
(DIR) Post #Azdj7b4Qiorz2HSpV2 by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-10-23T16:06:12Z
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@dos Eh, that's just SSO/OAuth2, I don't really see the problem with it?
(DIR) Post #AzwHDqawoEzaCz6XWS by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-11-05T15:03:29Z
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@inlovewithpda I... don't get it? Nothing about the phone requires you to use the Aurora Store. I think you're disappointed with the OS instead, but you don't need a new phone to switch it. The default Android Fairphone ships comes with Google services and the Play Store, you really don't need a new phone for that...
(DIR) Post #B05xdkkLTiwTqYkhOK by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-11-10T07:02:03Z
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@pavel "apk install" is not a valid command, and you can combine all "apk add" invocations into one. Also, megapixels is packaged already, so why not just "apk add megapixels"?
(DIR) Post #B0EJo7uDlUCCVohWEq by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2025-11-14T06:27:35Z
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@Luigi311 That website is full of contradictions 🤔 They say it's based on pmOS, but also that libhybris is supported. Then they say "mainline kernel, no blobs" and later reaffirm it also supports libhybris.On "features now" it lists Waydroid but within parentheses says "coming soon".I've never heard of this before but I hope they'll stick to making the shell and not also build an OS. Doing both is too much for a small (one person?) team.
(DIR) Post #B2jxwPGxVSymFeX4t6 by bart@mastodon.fam-ribbers.com
2026-01-07T11:03:02Z
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@ybon @joe9nf @postmarketOS Such a device would probably work best with it's own UI written for it tbh.