Quick demo at #WHY2025: The Fairphone 5 connected to Nreal AR glasses with Phosh and postmarketOS!

Together with @matthewcroughan at the NixOS tent, he's also trying to get them working with Monado!

I'm looking to de-Google my Xiaomi Redmi A5 and I'm not sure which route to take.
Has anyone successfully de-Googled a Xiaomi Redmi A5? If so, which OS did you use and what was your experience like? @postmarketOS @mobian @linmob @ubuntu@a.gup.pe @ubuntu@ubuntu.social @omgubuntu

#Privacy #DeGoogle #Xiaomi #RedmiA5 #UbuntuTouch #LineageOS #eOS #TechHelp #CommunitySupport #CommunityQuestion #phosh
#LinuxMobile #LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #Mobian #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Phosh #Librem5 #FuriLabsFLX1 #PinePhone #Linux #MobileLinux #postmarketOS #LinuxOnIPhone

Dear distro maintainers and i build my own stuff people:

In case you want to check out 0.49 release upfront: we've tagged the first release candidates (0.49~rc1) of #phosh and related components .

Release is planned 2025-08-15, just in time to celebrate at @FrOSCon .

Despite the date we hope it won't be 0815 (a common phrase in German meaning: boring) but has some exciting bits for everyone.

We've also tagged the companion releases for #feedbackd 0.8.4 and feedbackd-device-themes 0.8.5.

Sicelo brought #phosh to the venerable #N900 using #wlroot's pixman renderer as backend. It's not snappy as the device is too underpowered for that but awesome that it works !

Pytanie do naszej fedi spoleczności:
Co macie zainstalowane na swoich sprzętach? Z czego korzystacie na codzień?

Może zacznę od siebie:
Pecet: #CachyOS, laptop: #Arch
Przeglądarka: #Firefox + uBlock, uMatrix, betterfox
Rpi: #LibreELEC + kilka dockerów
Telefon: #GrapheneOS, przeglądarka #ironfox
Telefon_2: #PostmarketOS z #Phosh
Router: #OpenWRT z #Luci + bloker reklam
Odkurzacz: #Valetudo

Ciekaw jestem waszych wyborów. Może podpatrzę coś ciekawego?
A może sami macie jakieś pytania do mojej konfiguracji?

Catching a real world and *unexpected* #Cellbroadcast message revealed some minor bugs in #phosh and its mobile settings but those were easy to spotted and fixes will land for 0.49. Overall #ModemManager, #cbd, and #phosh picked the message up as expected (and the channel setting worked as well):

/cc @devrtz @NGIZero

If you use #Phosh (or another WM, like Sway, see below) without a session manager/greeter (like gdm, phrog,... - you are save on Mobian) that unlocks your keyring after login, be careful when using adding apps to your autostart (e.g., with https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/io.github.flattool.ignition/) that need an unlocked keyring to function (e.g., Fractal or Flare).

I managed to shoot myself in the foot with this twice (months ago and yesterday), starting to believe this was a weird hardware issue on my 256GB #oneplus6. I could not login into Phosh (it would be stuck on "Checking ..."), ssh login was also impossible - but nothing login related in journalctl (that I could access thanks to Jumpdrive and chroot).

(And now I'll look into setting up Phrog with #postmarketOS with systemd, because I want those notifications when my significant other tries to reach me but keep forgetting to start apps manually.)

More bits of #phoc's upcoming workspace support falling into place. It can now show a small indicator in the top left corner when switching work spaces:

Am I just dumb, or is there no way to minimize the standard phosh-keyboard in postmarketos?

...Or both?

#Mobian for #PinephonePro has been steadily improving. I installed a weekly image back in December 2024 and have been updating it, watching the progress. The #phosh UI improvements have been amazing, and the phone runs as slick and smooth as any Android phone I've used. Recently, I noticed #OrganicMaps app is now available on it, and the Camera app, if installed from Flathub, actually works! I can finally take photos with both front and back cameras, and scan QR codes… https://tobykurien.com/post-1753770212

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (30/2025): Video Time

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-30-2025/

#LinuxMobile #postmarketOS #Mobian #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #Phosh #Librem5 #FuriLabsFLX1 #PinePhone

Thanks to @arunmani the app chooser #portal is now adaptive too (and in #rustlang):

Thanks to the work of @gauthamx one can now configure the shortcuts bar of #stevia's terminal layout in mobile settings:

I haven't managed to crash the #phosh session or lock up my #FLX1 in more than eleven days thanks to #lmkd by @fakeshell. It now also has system notifications for much improved user feedback.

https://github.com/FuriLabs/lmkd

Oh and I got GPS working too! The least amount of troubleshooting required, I just had to enable "Location" in the settings app

The reason I didn't find it was because it was "hidden" under "Privacy & Security". I'm sure all of that will be baked in to the Welcome app at some point to save you from having to go look for everything yourself, so no biggie!

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (29/2025): Immutable Release Dates

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-29-2025/

#LinuxMobile #UbuntuTouch #Debian #Mobian #postmarketOS #FuriOS #Librem5 #PureOS #SailfishOS #PinePhone #LinuxOnMobile #PlasmaMobile #Phosh #GNOMEonMobile