Posts by verdre@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #Ad0gevFsohSy2h1ue8 by verdre@mastodon.social
       2023-12-20T11:10:34Z
       
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       Finally managed to blog about a project I did earlier this year! If you want to see how perfectly integrated Android App support on mobile Linux can look, check this out: https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2023/12/20/a-dive-into-jolla-appsupport/
       
 (DIR) Post #Ad22SKH6sIXm1bxipU by verdre@mastodon.social
       2023-12-21T10:51:38Z
       
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       @goatwildernesscollective @sonny pretty sure that large parts of the Sailfish OS ui code are proprietary. I don’t know if that’s also the case for the widget libraries that apps are using… if those are open source, it should be easy to run sailfish apps on other distros, it’d be mainly a matter of distributing them outside of Jolla store then.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivCEGvp7H4f9iVMJc by verdre@mastodon.social
       2024-06-14T14:50:13Z
       
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       @aral @nekohayo Turns out doing real time encoding in software is a hard problem to solve, and turns out most of the good codecs out there are patent encumbered and can't be shipped by default.Maybe instead of directing rants at volunteers, you could ask *why* things are as they are instead of expecting every feature to be on-par with commercial OSes.
       
 (DIR) Post #AivLjosRrAvv062mkC by verdre@mastodon.social
       2024-06-14T14:55:33Z
       
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       @aral @nekohayo In case you're actually be interested in what's happening rather than just ranting:Quite a few people (including me) have been working their asses off on gnome-shell/gstreamer/pipewire for the last two years in order to use hardware encoders out of the box (no large project dared to use hw encoders on linux by default so far). Also we're using the faster h264 sw encoder instead of vp8 in gnome-shell now when available (it must be manually installed on Fedora because patents).
       
 (DIR) Post #AjSFl3QLz7vQHzEUka by verdre@mastodon.social
       2024-06-26T17:55:21Z
       
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       Looks like Apple just released the fix for a security vulnerability in AirPods that I've found a while ago: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT214111If you're interested in a few more details, I've blogged about it now: https://blogs.gnome.org/jdressler/2024/06/26/do-a-firmware-update-for-your-airpods-now/