I took my #Fairphone4 out for a test drive at #dufferinmall with its new mainline kernel camera support in #postmarketos conjured up by @z3ntu. Yay!
My son's discerning opinion was that the photos look like the 90s. Definitely reminds me of 4x6" prints from a disposable camera with perhaps a little CCTV to spice things up.
Anyways, I'd love to help troubleshoot if someone could point me in the right direction. I don't have much programming experience, but I could be considered linux poweruser.

Tiens vous savez comment désactiver Gemini ou jsp qui sur un téléphone Android?

@nicoco @AnitaLeh @michaelzemmour as-tu entendu parler de @postmarketOS ? C'est une distro linux qui fonctionne sur les téléphones, dont le but est d'avoir un OS qui respecte la vie privée (et pas seulement limité aux téléphones!)

Another victim...

#uboot #mobilelinux #postmarketOS

Someone on the Steam subreddit was asking for Valve to make a #SteamOS phone (seeing how the new VR headset is Arm but also playes x86 steam games). And I thought "Hey, I've already got #PostmarketOS on a phone. We know Valve is using some 'FEX' library. How hard could it be?"

As it turned out, remarkably easy. (Though, it helps that someone already wrote a guide for it: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Steam )

Pretty sure it's a YMMV situation, but my milage was pretty good.

#FEX_Emu

It feels so nice to come back to a project after shelving it for few months due to lack of time and go "oh, I can do that better... and fix that".

You could even say that [It fills you with determination]

@domi if nginx's if were good
...
if if if if if if if if aaaaaaaaa

I sure love working around nginx's `if` statements

@WeAreFairphone @jovial Just FYI, LineageOS in this case was not the cause of the brick. The cause seems to be that qbootctl now bricks devices instead of switching slots: https://github.com/linux-msm/qbootctl/issues/4

Honestly, thank you all for warning about this .. I would be very angry if I had to return my FP5 *again* (mine got EDL bricked, but because of a half-done LineageOS upgrade..).

When they ask me what my clothes are made of.
#cats #catsofmastodon #cathair

Quick #retrocomputing question...

Where's your nearest #floppy?! and what's on it!

Mine's a diagnostic floppy for a #compaq 286 laptop.

@ska @phoronix

> were safe from systemd so far

systemd is not a disease, i never understood why people act like it is.

if you own your computer, you're still super flexible on what you use as a system manager, and it just gives people the *option* to use systemd on musl systems if they want to.

nobody ever wants to force people to use systemd, but we (and I) want people to accept that it is a viable option.

Billboard seen in London.

systemd Lands Experimental Support For musl libc

Systemd today finally merged support for building against and using the musl libc library. This is a win for Linux distributions like postmarketOS, Alpine Linux, and others that use musl by default as their standard C library or offer it as an option...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-musl-libc

thanks this is very helpful

Heads up for postmarketOS edge users of devices based on the APQ8064 SoC:

* Google Nexus 4 (lg-mako)
* Google Nexus 7 2013 (asus-flo)
* Sony Xperia Z (sony-yuga)

Thanks to @Logical_Error these are using mainline kernels now (with zero patches on top!). Read more in the edge blog post:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2025/11/17/apq8064-kernel-removed/

if someone wants to sell me their unwanted #39c3 ticket, please contact me. i failed again on 2nd sale, to get a 39c3 ticket. however, i would very much like to attend that conference. #39c3 #39c3tickets #39c3ticket #ccc

EDIT: btw, i did manage to secure a ticket.

Reminder that EVERYTHING Anthropic or OpenAI announce in public is propaganda designed to boost their market cap when they hit the IPO they're aiming for.

It's marketing, folks. There is no intelligence behind the artifice, it's just spicy autocomplete and hucksters in $5000 suits trying to pick your boss's pocket.
https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115548040527129225

How to feel old with one picture ...

/HT @pcdog

did you know that you can find free Cortex M0 development boards at the side of the road? folks call them disposable vapes but they're hackable, and i've reverse engineered a bunch of them! see https://github.com/schlae/VapeRE/