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Website: https://tuxphones.com
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2025-08-08 11:29:55 GMT

One of the main advantages of using anything #FOSS nowadays is that it's refreshingly clean from AI slop and other spam features.
Contrarily to the preconceptions from 10 years ago, it feels like using boutique, premium software whereas formerly leading products are just slowly rotting to their core.

2025-07-11 10:57:43 GMT

FOKS - Federated Open Key Service
https://foks.pub/

2025-06-20 08:53:13 GMT

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration
https://peoplevsbig.tech/break-up-big-tech-civil-society-declaration/

2025-06-10 09:55:43 GMT

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i would actually love a frutiger aero comeback in the foot desktop 💧
(though it would make that CSS renderer sweat)
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/658/465/375/449/382/original/e91af29537f6b945.jpg

2025-06-04 20:14:03 GMT

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deal! :)

2025-06-04 12:58:33 GMT

Fellow #Fosstodon people, where did you migrate to?
It's quite sad to lose the history of content in the process, but I'd like to at least be sure that our new home will stay online for the years to come, and for it to be a relatively "mainstream" safe space for FOSS people.

2025-05-29 09:20:08 GMT

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Good luck! Have you ever thought of opening a Fedi account for 18f, at least to cross-post from Bluesky for reach?

2025-05-13 21:39:49 GMT

Not a Linux phone post, but just as important. If you are an EU citizen, we need more votes to ban so-called "conversion therapy" until the end of this week. This takes less than one minute to sign, and will make Europe a much more welcoming place for us all :blobhaj_hug_blahaj: :BlobhajPrideHeart:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/screen/home

2025-04-29 21:57:50 GMT

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i am curious to explore ATP more in the next days - found some cool reads to start from 🤓

2025-04-29 21:34:27 GMT

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my exclamation was humorous -- although I haven't explored it much, i quite liked ATP in theory and wish it was decoupled by its for-profit entity

2025-04-29 19:13:39 GMT

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aaaAAAH keep that thing away!

2025-04-29 11:13:56 GMT

One lesson learned from the recent #fosstodon facts is that one of the biggest limitations of #mastodon is how it is not really designed to migrate from an instance to another. It would be much nicer if posts were treated more like atomic entities, univocally signed/hashed so to allow users to freely move their content around instances

2025-04-28 18:54:45 GMT

A new rave-like teaser from @npub1386…jarz has some of the hottest Fedi propaganda 🔥
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/417/096/114/417/374/original/ca882d7e89cbf432.jpg
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/417/096/483/593/161/original/3ceeba1c99b6e9f9.jpg

2025-04-22 22:03:35 GMT

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big big kudos Chris!!

2025-03-18 21:32:10 GMT

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yup, that was an implicit hint to update the post :D

2025-03-18 21:28:55 GMT

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i really *really* wish there was a link outside of cia.gov to access on this document...

2025-03-16 21:41:34 GMT

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is the bootloader unlocked?

2025-03-16 21:21:42 GMT

Really cool project from the French and German governments: "La Suite", an open-source, collaborative editor and replacement for #Notion and alike
https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs
#foss #opensource #office

2025-03-15 11:45:33 GMT

I would love some sort of GNU GPL v4 stating that should the source be used in any kind of AI training, all generated output has to follow the same license

2025-02-12 10:33:55 GMT

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i meant that on mainline linux phones the nfc is sometimes there, but it's not usable unfortunately

2025-02-11 13:37:48 GMT

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bare NFC drivers, rarely yes - but there's basically zero use to it, and absolutely no contactless right now

2025-02-02 23:05:12 GMT

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given the massive mobile Linux presence this year, that sounds like a genuine challenge

2025-02-02 21:00:59 GMT

Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads
https://timsh.org/tracking-myself-down-through-in-app-ads/
#privacy #tracking #linuxmobile #surveillance

2025-02-02 16:29:44 GMT

@npub123z…lajd c'est moi!

2025-02-02 12:03:36 GMT

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where are you at? 👀

2025-02-02 11:29:44 GMT

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neat, i'll watch a few policy talks and ping you in ~1hr!

2025-02-02 10:36:08 GMT

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ohh you're around? :D

2025-02-02 08:41:53 GMT

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here be thy meme

2025-01-25 11:09:34 GMT

Just a FYI, #Lomiri (Unity 8) being merged in #postmarketOS is a massive achievement.
Essentially, this tightens the gap a bit between the streamlined Ubuntu Touch UI that lots of people liked, with support for lots of mainline devices and software in postmarketOS. It'll probably be a bit buggy for a while, but is a great step in the right direction.
Thanks @npub1c96…0k8u!
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/4496
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2025-01-25 10:38:31 GMT

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i still see it as 18+ on the German store, if that's what you meant? :(

2025-01-21 15:43:28 GMT

If virtually every known figure [1] from the Silicon Valley is embracing openly alt-right opinions at this point, speaking against democracy, gender equality, and safety regulations, can we safely call VCs and big tech companies a bunch of fascists by now?
(1. that is, a16z/Andreessen, Graham/YC, Zuckerberg, Altman, Thiel, Musk, and a bunch of others)

2025-01-20 09:15:45 GMT

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I would go for flathub for simplicity and reach to many distros (apart from some annoyances in the packaging it's fairly well documented), did you test if Flutter apps work on ARM Linux though?

2025-01-19 23:06:42 GMT

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that depends on the target. Flatpak is surely the popular choice for convergent apps lately (and most of us use apps from Flathub on Linux phones), but not the lightest if it's more like a small utility

2025-01-14 20:07:42 GMT

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i was looking for something exactly like that, so thanks for the tip! time to rewrite mirrorhall in rust i'm afraid :)

2025-01-14 18:46:44 GMT

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Those are great points! I really would love to know more about the local-first thing, as it would solve lots of headaches in the current implementation.

2025-01-14 18:18:00 GMT

Proton is giving away $1 million "to support a better internet"
https://proton.me/blog/2024-lifetime-fundraiser-results

2025-01-13 23:13:51 GMT

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in fact, it's about as punk as software gets

2025-01-13 23:12:28 GMT

#mastodon is like that band you want to stop bringing up with your friends, but keeps dropping bangers every week

2025-01-06 10:18:40 GMT

I will present Mirror Hall for the first time at #FOSDEM next month [1], and wrote a guide on how to develop similar home-grown desktop streamer solutions last month [2].
There's only a couple of weekends until then for small improvements to the app, so if you have any particular wishes let me know! 🪄
1. https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4527-mirror-hall-building-virtual-network-displays-to-bridge-mobile-and-desktop/
2. https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/

2024-11-25 16:01:49 GMT

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it was just a print bug, it's been fixed :)

2024-11-25 14:00:17 GMT

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fyi: GitLab links are fixed in main now :D

2024-10-31 15:16:41 GMT

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(source: https://m.slashdot.org/story/434899)

2024-10-31 15:16:03 GMT

Techbros: We pushed AI everywhere to increase your productivity and wellbeing!
Meanwhile techbros to investors:
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/402/689/375/268/997/original/ca437418b888bdfd.jpg

2024-10-18 10:02:42 GMT

In terms of accessible #UX for neurodiversity, one of the wonders of @npub163h…mv0n in my experience is the ability to remember things I saw in my timeline in a consistent order.
The fact I can often rebuild thought processes just by moving through the timeline again is something I missed from real-world environments.
On other platforms, one click will result in a re-randomization of the posts interleaved by viral slop, which keeps bombing the attention span back to zero.
Please keep it this way.

2024-10-14 21:44:24 GMT

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that's a great tip! i will look into that

2024-10-14 15:43:17 GMT

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not yet! i think it would work very similarly

2024-09-29 20:21:34 GMT

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interestingly, the flathub release is slower on newer intel cpus because vaapi seems to have lower total latency than avdec (cpu) for some reason. I should make this (CPU/GPU) more configurable in the next release

2024-09-29 12:32:26 GMT

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avdec is the default as it's normally the one with lowest latency in this case (but CPU based)
You might want to test the Flathub version, which defaults to VAAPI, to see if it's faster in your case, but your GPU might be too old for that

2024-09-27 13:23:16 GMT

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80% inkjets i'd say, lasers i see are pretty old

2024-09-27 12:32:55 GMT

Semi-OT: I find #printers discarded on the street almost daily, but never any other kind of electronics.
I rescued a couple in the past years (oddly enough I love printers) and they always worked flawlessly in spite of often horrible firmware.
I am starting to believe that people don't own printers anymore not because they don't want/need/have space, but because they have gotten so atrociously capitalistic that it is impossible to operate one without huge costs and tons of proprietary apps

2024-09-27 11:05:50 GMT

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c'est très gentil! Merci beaucoup

2024-09-26 21:17:09 GMT

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Thanks for the feature!

2024-09-26 14:13:30 GMT

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i felt gtk4paintablesink becoming better since, is there any specific change that made it so?

2024-09-24 14:46:24 GMT

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Adding a custom protocol / backend to this app should be relatively easy. But feel free to look into / steal libmirrormaker if it helps on how to create virtual screens (mutter-only for now)

2024-09-24 10:48:28 GMT

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it should work OOTB on devices with USB networking, such as postmarketOS ones - but idk what protocol Android Auto requires

2024-09-23 21:15:05 GMT

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umm, that depends a lot on the hardware sadly, but the latency should normally be <200ms. can you look at which encoder and decoder pipelines you are using by launching the app from console?

2024-09-22 18:44:29 GMT

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Not easily, unfortunately, otherwise I would have tried to upstream it:
- GND uses Miracast (standardized, TCP, slower), we use a non-standard UDP stream
- GND is only a streamer, Mirror Hall is both streamer and player for convenience. It's extremely hard to turn a Linux device in a Miracast sink on the fly
- GND supports virtual displays if I recall correctly, but not custom / adaptive resolution

2024-09-22 07:42:56 GMT

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thanks! let me know how it works for you

2024-09-22 07:38:34 GMT

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that API should actually be enough if it supports virtual screens.
Fetching the correct resolution is done rudimentally for now (basically you are advertising the screen size of the display the window is on) so it should be fine on KDS

2024-09-22 07:33:40 GMT

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we definitely need to introduce a better profile for high resolution screens, as e.g. on Qualcomm glitches are not uncommon

2024-09-21 19:17:03 GMT

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I am curious to know, since I looked into it and aside from kwin's old virtual sink I could not really find much

2024-09-21 19:15:51 GMT

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CutiePi tablet, it has a Raspberry Pi 4 inside

2024-09-21 14:23:12 GMT

Introducing Mirror Hall: Turn any Linux device into a wireless second monitor
- P2P screen sharing optimized for low latency
- Sender: Currently only for Mutter-based DEs
- Receiver: Works with all DEs
This is the first *beta* release, so please report all issues you encounter and give us feedback. This is especially for #ARM users, as we need your help testing the gstreamer pipeline on a few phones.
Full post here: https://notes.nokun.eu/post/2024-09-22-mirrorhall/
#linux #opensource #foss #gnome #apps #gstreamer
https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/113/175/920/947/440/409/original/e7c2a1683e463ccf.mp4

2024-08-29 08:59:34 GMT

ai-generated slop illustrations are 2020s wordart

2024-08-19 21:20:40 GMT

Two years after leaving Twitter, this account has finally overtaken the amount of people who followed us there 🎉
The #Fediverse still feels like a place to discuss with talented people, and it replaced the feeling of doomscrolling with that of being in a real, vibrant community. Thank you all.