I have to say that using Linux on a phone feels... nostalgic? Kinda like Windows Mobile PDAs used to or Android in the very beginning (in a good way).

These days mobile OSes obscure everything from the user, actively punishing them for rooting their devices or instaling custom builds.

Linux on the other hand feels like ~2008. You have apps for daily needs (like you did on PDAs back in the day), you can consume media (reading books, watching movies, listening to music).

But if you're a curious person... there's a terminal. You can see exactly what your device is doing and how it works. You want to know which GPS satellites can see you? No problem, just query the modem-manager or use simple GUI app that will tell you the name of a satellite and which system/country it belongs to (turns out my device supports GALILEO, neat!).

Im really enjoying it. Two years ago I would say it was still unusable, but now (despite WiFi, Audio and Cameras not working on my device yet) it's... neat.

(Post written from xiaomi-pyxis running postmarketOS with Plasma Mobile while walking back home from a supermaket btw)

ai generated alt text is wholly useless because if blind people wanted to read AI slop they could just generate it themselves

Revoke their license.

Emergency Responders Say They're Now Unpaid "Roadside Assistance" for Confused Waymos https://share.google/yGTL3WVyQYFfoFDS4

I'm still using my #PinebookPro . It's not that fast but enough for many tasks.

#Pine64

TIL someone got postmarketOS running on an Apple Macbook touchbar 🤣

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/File:Apple_iBridge_T2_touchbar_Linux.png

Q: Why is udev a great piece of software?

A: Because udev rules.

I recently received a number of these Asus Chromebook 100P laptops as a donation. They're cute little laptops, but are on an expired version of ChromeOS, and since they're #arm I can't use my usual tricks with MrChromebox.

Well @cinimodev apparently is way smarter than me, and figured out how to get #postmarketOS running on this in no time.

He even wrote it up. Check it out. It's brilliant. Yay, #linux

https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2026-03-07-asus-chromebook-c100p-postmarketos-guide/

@GrapheneOS @indigoamber by the way, for how long will these be supported? Are we talking ~3 years or ~10 years of firmware updates (including updates of secondary processor fw)?

The first week of our Open Letter to Keep Android Open has been a resounding success! Our signatories list has grown to nearly 50 organizations from 20 countries around the world, including the
@eff, @OpenMediaOrg, @brave, @Vivaldi, and many more!

https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/#signatories

During the McCarthy era, my dad — a University of Michigan professor — was asked by the FBI to name communists or other subversives at the University. He refused. He told us they came several times to his office to pressure him, even threatening him with being called before the Committee (a career-ending event everyone feared). He refused every time. The University administration backed him up. A decade later I overheard some faculty (partygoers at our house) talking about the events with respect.

I never thought those days would come again.

Don’t be a snitch on friends and colleagues. Don’t cooperate. Keep your self respect and earn the esteem of others. Plus it is the right thing to do.

@karolherbst No meeting everyday :D