Your irregular reminder that Alpine Linux DOES NOT have any Telegram channels and any community use of the Alpine marks in a way which indicates an official relationship with or endorsement by the project is forbidden by our Code of Conduct.

Unfortunately, it is hard to get Telegram to do anything about this. We have been trying for years.

@fazalmajid @ariadne Okay, no worries :)

Yesterday evening I geeked on @postmarketOS and installed u-boot and a brand new version of postmarketOS on an "old" 2011 android 4.0 tablet. So happy to see this device with new up to date software 🤩🎉

#reuse #recycle #postmarketOS

@fazalmajid @ariadne Now debunking the other part: postmarketOS does support running Android apps thanks to Waydroid https://waydro.id/ (which runs an Android (LineageOS 20) lxc container on-top of your regular Linux) and Android Translation Layer https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer (which is similar to wine, so it doesn't require an android container and can let you run apps directly). Other solutions exist in postmarketOS too. See the following wiki pages: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Android_Translation_Layer https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid

@fazalmajid @ariadne FuriOS is not linux. It's Debian with a downstream Android kernel and an infinite amount of hacks (aka. Halium) to make that aging (typically 4.x) kernel work with debian userspace. It is closer to Android than it is to desktop Linux. And obviously it only works on their own phones (one of them just being a rebadged cheap Gigaset phone).
This means you're relying on an ancient Android kernel and lots of hacks that may break at any time, as well as a whole bunch more hacks to get all the android userspace blobs working, It may work now, but in no way is it sustainable. TBH I hate them calling it a "Linux phone" .. like I said it is much closer to Android than it is to Linux. Also, a lot of FuriLabs' Android emulation magic is proprietary and there is no reason why they cannot opensource/free it.

So, postmarketOS being less free than FuriOS? I'm sorry, where do you get this information from?

@davidgerard You're a year late.

New product names coming right up:

GitHub —> CopilotHub
LinkedIn —> Copilot Unemployed
Xbox —> XCopilot
Teams —> CopilotSkype
Azure —> CopilotCloud
OneDrive —> CopilotDeleteurfiles
Edge —> CopilotExplorer
VSCode —> CopilotCursor
Bing —> Copilot4cucks
Defender —> CopilotNoViruses
Intune —> CopilotMalware
Windows —> CopilOS
Authenticator —> CopiletMeIn

the METR study is gonna go round again because Fortune *just* posted a fresh writeup of it yesterday, based on their own article from July

https://fortune.com/article/does-ai-increase-workplace-productivity-experiment-software-developers-task-took-longer/

every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Raghadfamily/115846914089361231

@AnnaLion @Geri @celestinia

Users of the 📱FAIRPHONE 4️⃣ who avoided or did not get the ill-fated and retracted 15.15.2 update (see earlier toot above) should gradually get a new 📲 UPDATE 15.14.4

Going by the description in the forum and the version number, it might come without any of the changes that 15.15.2 was supposed to bring, but with the very most recent Android security patches (5 January 2026) ➡️ https://forum.fairphone.com/t/software-update-fp4-srel-15-14-4-20251229152255/128916?u=wearefairphone /u

#Fairphone #Fairphone4

@thibaultamartin I think they also got cut off from some EU services too, so not sure EU versions of GitHub/AWS/etc would change much.

Thanks to @newbyte's efforts and @agx's reviewing, everything relevant from the "postmarketOS tweaks" app has been integrated into Phosh Mobile Settings so that we were able to sunset the legacy app in postmarketOS edge and have one less settings app in total! 🎉

As a bonus, Phosh Mobile Settings now has a generic conf-tweaks interface that can be used to add other custom settings with config files as well!

Details in the edge post:
https://postmarketos.org/edge/2026/01/04/postmarketos-tweaks-replaced/

#postmarketos #linuxmobile #phosh

https://social.phosh.mobi/users/phosh/statuses/01KE52S074EH28WZR7K13EW0XT

So for anyone playing at home, the Rockchip RV1126+ is a yet-undocumented variant of the Rockchip RV1126 that identifies itself as 0x112d rather than 0x1126.

The only mentions found about it are in the git log of rkbin, where they quote the git log of their OP-TEE fork, where they first “add rv112d support”, and then “add rv1126+ support”. The quick diff of the OP-TEE binary before and after those two updates shows that indeed, 0x112d is RV1126+.

The "fun" thing is that their other binaries that may care about how a chip identifies have not been made aware of the 0x112d variant.

For example, the usbplug binary (which is how rockusb is implemented by the vendor) is resetting out quite quickly out (which could mislead an unobservant developer in thinking it didn't even try to run).

This might help others:

Boot1 Release Time: Mar 29 2023 15:54:09, version: 1.24 NO FTL
Boot from dev = 10
chip_id:2d115652
hamming_distance:112d 1126 3
hamming_distance:112d 1109 2
chip_id:5256112d00,-1
ChipType = 22

Not sure what the best format to share a binary patch is, but here's the diff of the xxd output before and after. Hint, see the -r flag to xxd.

--- bin/rv11/rv1126_usbplug_v1.24.bin.xxd       2026-01-01 12:42:25.758834328 -0500
+++ rv1126_usbplug_v1.24.rv112d.patched.xxd     2026-01-01 12:42:06.817577746 -0500
@@ -90 +90 @@
-00000590: 9df8 1010 04f0 03fc 002c 14da b048 fff7  .........,...H..
+00000590: 9df8 1010 04f0 03fc 15e0 14da b048 fff7  .............H..

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

RT: https://ap.samueldr.com/objects/65289274-1465-4d8c-9625-f3bae8de10e0

linus prime ngl

@happydisciple @dubiousblur @quixoticgeek here you go

Dear @c3voc Once again: Thanx for your excellent work @ #39c3! 🙏

And some constructive feedback on #Audio: I saw a user complaining about the Intros of recorded talks being too loud.

Did some measurements. (Perceived) Integrated Loudness compared:

▶︎ 1h Talk without Intro/Outro:
-24.1 dB LUFS
▶︎ 15sec Intro-Part:
-12.3 dB LUFS

Intro = nearly 12dBs louder than actual talk – that's a lot!!

For a more pleasant experience I'd recommend aiming for similar LUFS levels i.e. ≤6dB difference.

😘