Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027.

Devices like the PineNote and PineTab2 are currently estimated to run out of stock in three months time. Just pre-warning everyone in case people start asking when things are going to be in stock again.

Meanwhile, devices like the PineTime, PineVoice and Pinecil will continue production as usual!

As for the PineTime Pro, currently the demo firmware has basic drivers for the display, touch, motion, GPS, buttons, heat rate sensor (chip id only), battery charger, motor, microphone and the speaker. Though some issues do need to be ironed out first before a pilot batch begins production.

That's it for this post, all in all it's a bit bleak for the Linux devices, but in the meantime PineStore still have a great lineup of MCU powered devices which will continue to expand with more exciting devices.

Alrightttttt, have a great Monday! (or Tuesday, if you're up that early)

#pine64 #pinetime #pinenote #pinetab2 #pinetab #pinetimePro

Made it to my bed Super eepy but very happy with how FrOSCon went and that I got to talk to soooo many awesome people :) I even lost my voice very late into Sunday

Also fixed some functionality in the postmarketOS kernels for two generic x86_64 laptops on both days! linux-postmarketos-mainline 7.2 with the changes will be available later today and should fix all issues that were reported since the switch to the new kernels so far

So many familiar faces said they'd come to our conference with Alpine Linux in September, I'm SO excited and I hope we can put together an event that does our incredible community justice

"Claude watermarks your code now."

Dude. It's not yours, you didn't write it.

last year The Linux Foundation had $300 million in revenue in 2025.

can't hire a designer.

absolutely pathetic.

green is my pepper? no, we are innovating today

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/117094103503360926

For my English-speaking audience:

Macron's recent law that was adopted in Parliament earlier this year and set to impose a nationwide ban on social media for under-15-year-olds via systematic age verification, was just declared unconstitutional by the French Constitutional Council.

Namely on these grounds:
• the council considers the law disproportionately infringes on the freedom of expression of minors,
• it considers that the establishment of a nationwide age verification system may have dire consequences for any citizen's right to privacy.

there is nothing these days that has the vibe of cyanogenmod. ad-hoc wifi support built-in? a completely custom system theming engine?
WHY IS THIS NOT ALIVE ANYMORE??

type of programmer who, when their C code does an out-of-bound read then crashes, moves their hands up & down and says "SIGSEGV-en"

did you know that you can run Alpine in things that are not docker containers?

imagine putting "🚫 No Lamers" on such a Claude-looking website (or, what the fuck happened to efnet.org)

Doesn't seem like Nate Graham AKA pointieststick, of KDE fame, has a fedi account, so I'll just share his article here myself:

https://pointieststick.com/2026/07/19/whos-responsible-for-bug-reports-on-old-software-versions/

It's a nice read, and the article about what "LTS" actually means that he links to inside the post, gets straight to the core of the issue. Nate's communication style is examplary and something to take note of.

One of the open source projects I used to (many years ago, so I am not really affected anymore) has recently decided to allow AI contributions. One of their arguments is that they judge submissions on quality, not tools used.

Back when I was an active contributor (to the project and maintainer of some other parts of the surrounding ecosystem), I got a lot of submissions that were bad.

The thing is, I absolutely loved getting these because they always came from super-enthusiastic junior people. Reviewing them and giving feedback often too much longer than implementing the feature myself. The same was usually true for the next contribution too. But that shifted over time. After a few months, I started getting patches where I didn’t find anything beyond the cosmetic that I wanted to change.

Going back further, I was one of those people when I started contributing.

Measured as code contributions over the short term, maintainers working with submitters of poor-quality PRs is a waste of time. You’re taking time away from writing code to do something that produces code more slowly.

Measured over the long term, the results are very different. Far more code in that project and closely related parts of the ecosystem has been written by people who I mentored when they came along with some bad code than by me.

It’s never a waste of my time to turn an enthusiastic and incompetent contributor into an enthusiastic and competent contributor, it’s an absolutely critical part of building a healthy project. I wouldn’t have got nearly as much out of F/OSS on a personal level if I hadn’t encountered a lot of people with the same opinion when I was one of the enthusiastic and incompetent newcomers.

But LLMs are not like that. If I spend time reviewing LLM-generated code when it would have been faster to write it myself (which, to be clear, is the case on 100% of LLM-submitted PRs I’ve seen so far), then that’s just a time sink. It’s also taking away time I could be spending helping new contributors who want to actually improve, rather than just take the review comments, feed them into an opaque system, and give me back the results.

Watercolor 0.7 - Chris McElligott

NVK Vulkan Performance Improving With Mesa 26.2 Against NVIDIA Proprietary Driver

The performance of the Nouveau kernel driver with the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver continues to improve each feature release in its quest toward better competing with NVIDIA's official Linux graphics driver with its proprietary Vulkan driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVK-Mesa-26.2-Performance

And they call it ‘progress’

I call it unnecessary destruction

When you allow AI to write your alt text.

For Instagram, my art is "Likely made with AI". Hard to be an artist in 2026...

we have macbook at home

Today the last patent for MPEG 4 Part 2 Visual finally expired.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Have_the_patents_for_MPEG-4_Visual_expired_yet%3F

#NoSoftwarePatents #OpenCodecs #MPEG4