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Kids that grew up with Windows 7: It is my mission to make a perfect selection box around this

@elly @domi @wojtek @jolla I am in this situation myself, after switching from my Poco F1 to a Fairphone 5, much to my disappointement I realised it doesn't have a headphone jack...

Right now I use an adapter, but I mean, I had to buy that adapter separately, and frankly it's just more convenient to just have the jack built-in. I can also lose it at any point...

(And no I don't charge my phone while having headphones connected.)

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My response to anyone asking me to do anything for the next two weeks starting Monday

🚨 PSA! 🚨

Alpine 3.23 moved mariadb-connector-c from the 3.3 release series to the 3.4 release series, which has different TLS validation behavior.

If you are using self-signed certificates, you need to either trust the self-signed CA or set the MARIADB_TLS_DISABLE_PEER_VERIFICATION=1 environment variable.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/issues/17798

#alpinelinux

I just got permission from @bagder to use his response as a standard way to deal with slop:
I think it's beautiful.

every time you add a stalebot to your project, an angel dies

I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS I HATE STALEBOTS

Look ma, no fork! 🎉

https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/7584

#postmarketOS is now shipping #systemd built from unpatched upstream source code, thanks to all the amazing folks involved with adding #musl libc support 😁

New blog post is out, with a look at our finances in 2025. Most importantly:

Thanks to your donations, we can now start the Contributor Support Programme to make developing postmarketOS more sustainable.

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/12/19/contributor-compensantion-and-financial-update/

Systemd 259 Released With Experimental Musl libc Support, More Features

Systemd 259 is out as the newest feature release for this widely-used Linux init system and service manager. Yes, there are more features in tow for this systemd release to top off 2025...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-259

@jolla I genuinely wonder why you didn't include the headphone jack though.
Sure, most people have bluetooth headphones now (or just blast brainrot on speakers in public transport...), but it would be nice to have a headphone jack (which isn't hard to implement).

I don't think enough people talk about it, but saturation of bluetooth devices on the train for instance makes bluetooth congestion *very* bad. My headphones tend to lose packets when I'm taking the train (no matter if I'm using them with phone or computer), and that's entirely caused by corporate greed and manufacturers getting rid of headphone jacks.

That's the reason why I'm using old Xiaomi Mi 9 Lite (xiaomi-pyxis) as a music player. 512GB microSD card loaded with FLACs I bought online or ripped CDs, stick a headphone jack in and you're good to go. Even ANC works if you turn headphones on before plugging the headphone jack in.

If you try to use any bluetooth accessory in places like Chaos Communication Congress, you'll be simply out of luck. Amount of bluetooth devices at the venue successfully jams the bluetooth band.

That's why having a headphone jack is important and we really need to start talking about bluetooth congestion problem in urban areas.

"Thinness" isn't an answer by the way. My KOHAKU (Samsung Galaxy Chromebook) is as thin as Google Pixel 6, but it has a headphone jack (as well as 2x USB-C and microSD reader).

MediaTek will be fun to mainline though.

Stephen Rothwell is "stepping down as #Linux-Next maintainer on Jan 16, 2026. Mark Brown [@broonie] has generously volunteered to take up the challenge.":

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-next/20251218180721.20eb878e@canb.auug.org.au/T/#u

To quote: ""It seems a long time since I read Andrew Morton's "I have a dream" email and decided that I could help out there - little did I know what I was heading for.""

Many many thx Stephen for all your really hard work on this over all those years, it helped a tremendous lot!

#LinuxKernel #kernel

Something that hasn't been made clear: Firefox will have an option to completely disable all AI features.

We've been calling it the AI kill switch internally. I'm sure it'll ship with a less murderous name, but that's how seriously and absolutely we're taking this.

…

support for texture compression landed in #NVK which means a significant performance boost in the next release!

A lot of people were involved to get this working and it required work on the kernel and Userspace side.

It should allow to close the gap to Nvidia, but the variance is impressive.

Some games barely see any difference, but others see a 2x perf improvement. But it should on average cut the gap by 25% or so.

Hello my friends, I'm sorry to bother you. You may be receiving many messages, and I know we are may bothering you 🙏, but please don't forget my children. I have four children, all under ten years old, and they need someone to stand by me . Please don't forget us.💔
https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-raghda-and-her-children-rebuild-after-losing-everything
@arendleejessurun @rahulc29 @denissalem @Gustodon @fabio @chielk @santiago

GitHub Actions charging per build minute for *self-hosted-runners*? Shit's about to hit the fan lol

I don't want AI in my browser, I just want the #RSS icon in the address bar to come back. I liked that.

#Firefox

Mozilla has a new CEO who:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of bingo profile the whole community has been waiting for.

The effect of putting the #postmarketOS wiki behind #Anubis 😞

I really hope whatever entities are doing this will run out of money soon...