[svpol] Wow, THANK YOU government of Sweden for giving me the equivalent of 4,5 Euros in reimbursement on my energy bill, lower petrol tax "at the pump" (I don't have a car), 50% off monthly transit passes until the election, and 6% lower VAT on food for less than two years!!!! This makes up […]

Opened an MR to #postmarketos #pmbootstrap to support specifying paths to arbitrary local apk files in sideload instead of requiring them to be in the pmbootstrap packages directory. Testing welcome: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2952

postmarketOS awesome moment #1: spending 10 minutes wondering why your device boots into debug shell only to realise you forgot to reinsert the SD card

hard image thanks 2010-me for saving this

Started writing rm -fr to understand gen alpha better.

What is Deutsche Bahn warning about. Nothing shows if I hover over it. We are not delayed so you can't slack off when getting off the train?

Why does "grilled cheese" refer to a grilled sandwich with cheese on it instead of e.g. grilled halloumi?

So far I'm enjoying the new #Snälltåget day train to Hamburg. Much better than the decrepit DB & DSB EuroCity I've taken before, nicer carriages and most crucially the staff doesn't act like they have joint custody over a child they hate. Good food too!

The world if the Python docs had type hints

HYPNOTIST: Are you ready, my dear subject? Are you ready for a state of trance? ME: 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 ARMIN VAN BUUREN: Welcome friends it’s a new episode of A State of Trance, 1277 how we feeling Amsterdam (studio audience cheers)

[Misinformation] One of the most prominent examples of the "Brussels effect", the process of European Union (EU) regulations spreading well beyond the EU's borders, is the inclusion of a dedicated Eurovision key (typically labelled with the abbreviated version of the name, "ESC") on almost all […]

Since age verification is hot on the agenda I'm doing the only responsible thing and introducing it for pmbootstrap versions: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/8550

Tagged #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap 3.10.2 with some important bug fixes, see https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/tags/3.10.2. An especially big thank you to @craftyguy#postmarketos#pmbootstrapor figuring out and fixing the file descriptor leak!

Shoutout to Genius for still using the bird logo in the "share to formerly Twitter" button at the bottom.

Incredibly stupid how Google's quick answer AI keeps giving me machine-translated websites (e.g. translated English-language Reddit posts) as sources for translations of specific technical words.

📍 Details for the postmarketOS conference are up, as well as a call for proposals! Details: https://postmarketos.org/conference/ CfP (deadline is 2026-06-30): https://pretalx.postmarketos.org/postmarketos-conference-2026/cfp "We are looking forward to your entry! No matter your background […]

If you're interested in a semi-beginner friendly contribution opportunity in #postmarketOS, we currently have an issue with using Podman/Distrobox in the Console terminal emulator. @craftyguy#postmarketosalready investigated it and found a probable root cause, so either just verifying his hypothesis or […]

Last night I opened a draft merge request to open up #postmarketos #pmbootstrap's flashing interface to more use-cases by adding a new "flash" subcommand that takes a path to any arbitrary file and the name of the partition to flash. It works like the existing flashing subcommands, i.e. no need […]

Tagged #postmarketos #pmbootstrap 3.10.1 as a small bugfix release, see https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/tags/3.10.1 for a full list of changes.

Tagged #postmarketos #pmbootstrap 3.10.0 last night. Highlights include the install command prompting for user password and "pmOS is already installed on this medium" much earlier so you don't have to babysit it, run0 support if sudo and doas aren't installed, and UEFI boot by default for QEMU […]

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/ So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function […]

Why does my laptop repeatedly jump from 3-5% battery back up to 8%

I've been bugged by some of the #postmarketos #pmbootstrap subcommand names for a while, so I decided to finally write my thoughts down in an issue: https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/work_items/2745 Any thoughts or suggestions are more than welcome. Hearing others' […]

Would be pretty cool to repurpose an old tablet to make your own departure sign for your closest public transport sign. I found that my local public transport company has a web version of their signs on URLs like this one: https://avgangar.ostgotatrafiken.se/tinnerbacksbadet?size=large

Whenever I make the mistake of thinking that Stack Exchange is good actually and people just need to get it I'm swiftly proven wrong.

Is there any easy way to just put a web link in a directory in #gnome with #nautilus for organisational purposes? Like if I have a directory with files relating some particular task and I also have a link that's very relevant to this task, is there any way I can have a file that opens a given […]

[eupol] Now that the price of dino-fuelies skyrocketed once again, let's take the time to recognise how excellent the idea of phasing out fossil fuel cars by 2035 is!

Frankly bizarre how Telegram Desktop manages to be one of the most well-functioning and complete Linux phone apps right now despite officially not supporting the form factor. And I don't even like Telegram!

Löjtnantshjärta är en så fin blomma. Ibland är världen fantastisk.

Does anyone have an actual use-case for the "pmbootstrap apkindex_parse" subcommand? Asking because it was apparently broken for over a year and no one seemed to complain 😅 #pmbootstrap #postmarketos

Got responsibility-sniped by my stomach into making dinner 😔

I just opened a merge request to #postmarketos #pmbootstrap making some changes to the UX of the install subcommand, in particular prompting you about install disk issues much earlier and also informing about that without the --password argument you'll be prompted to manually enter it later […]

If you're interested in beginner-friendly tasks for contributing to #postmarketos in #python #pmbootstrap has some clean-ups that need to be done—in particular, migrating the remaining commands from the legacy frontend.py to the new "commands" module. See […]

Is the earpiece on the original #pinephone very quiet during calls for anyone else? Like in a relatively quiet room I can hear the other person fine but as soon as I go somewhere in public it gets very difficult.

Being reminded of that today is someone's birthday because you saw in the news that it's the third anniversary of their homeland being invaded feels fucked up.

#megapixels 2.1.0 was just merged into #postmarketos Edge, including a fix to make it work out-of-the-box again on the original #pinephone! Performance is not as good as it used as it relies on software rendering to be but it can take photos at least, and it's markedly more usable than the main […]

Is there any way linter/type checker for #python that can find expressions that never will evaluate to anything other than False based on the type information? E.g. checking if a variable of the type `int` exists within a list of the type `liststr]`? I do use [#mypy but it doesn't seem to catch […]

Drömde att de lade till en Kosovoportal i Minecraft.

🇵🇱💪🦅🍺

Opened a merge request to get the Megapixels camera app working again via software rendering on devices that don't support the graphics APIs GTK 4 requires nowadays like the original PinePhone and Exynos 4xxx devices. Performance isn't amazing but it's definitely better than I would've expected. […]

Just accidentally ripped off the attached bottle cap from an orange juice bottle, my greatest apologies @vonderleyen it won't happen again 😭

Just got my German citizenship after snatching all the leftover tea bags from the postmarketOS Airbnb right before leaving, many thanks to @fossdd for telling me about this path to Germanhood 🙏

The world if the postmarketOS GitLab CI runners worked

The theme for this postmarketOS hackathon is six seven I think

Recently huge progress was made and we got the first audio coming out of the Fairphone 5 speaker, @bshah and @z3ntu even got call audio working! Coming soon to a Fairphone 5 near you! #fairphone #fairphone5 #postmarketos

We made good progress on automated hardware testing in postmarketOS, resulting in being able to run pmaports changes on a real OP6T! Thanks to everybody who donated to postmarketOS or contributed their time to make this possible! ❤️ More about this and future plans […]

How many free hot chocolate cups can I pour until the train conductor tells me to sod off

Had a stab at making #postmarketOS #pmbootstrap able to automatically update the checksum of all packages with unstaged and uncomitted changes. Incredibly satisfying to not have to awkwardly script this or manually copy git output! MR is up if you want to try it […] [Original post on mastodon.nu]

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 […]

Now that it is official US policy to promote regime change in Europe and to dismantle the EU I wonder if we will take sovereignty over tech more seriously