is it too late to join the #pipewire party? i hope not, or else my #flx1 will be sad

all applications that use pipewire can finally utilize the camera (adding to our list of v4l, qtmultimedia and android apps)

one issue we are facing is that aperture is not very happy with the back cameras, so applications like #GNOME snapshot or authenticator will have the preview flipped. captured frames are surprisingly not flipped tho:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/snapshot/-/issues/261

Version 0.2 of my eSIM Manager app is out!

We've got significant UI improvements alongside many other additions such as an app icon, providing environment variables for lpac via the command line, error handling, eUICC 'notification' handling, viewing of eUICC chip info and appstream metainfo data!

https://codeberg.org/lucaweiss/lpa-gtk/releases/tag/0.2

postmarketOS in 2025-03

* GNOME (Mobile) 48
* Camera enablement for OnePlus 6, Motorola Moto E5 Plus, Motorola Moto G5s, Xiaomi Redmi (3S, 4 Standard, 4A)
* Generic SM7150 packaging
* @nlnet @NGIZero grant for Collation + i18n support in @musl libc got accepted!
* COSMIC desktop
* systemd service reloading/restarting on upgrade
* Lots of events coming up around the world
* A highly entertaining podcast episode

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/04/09/pmOS-update-2025-03/

As part of or work on #Cellbroadcast we've documented our current test setup: https://codeberg.org/Phosh/gsm-cell-testing using #osmocom for the mobile network parts and #ansible for deploying #ModemManager on the devices, performing the tests and checking the results.

Thanks to @NGIZero for supporting our work on this.

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (14/2025): Wallpapered Lockscreens

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-14-2025/

I'd like to understand how Android handles some QMI bits and found tooling by @joelselvaraj for that on the @postmarketOS wiki (https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Qualcomm_Modem_Debugging). That needs a patched Android kernel, so I took some notes how I got that to work on a Pixel 3a. Just in case this is useful to others: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/con/Booting_an_Android_custom_kernel_on_a_Pixel_3a_for_QMI_debugging.html

for this months updates, we are reworking our fingerprint setup entirely. the daemon (Biomd) is now written from scratch and no longer links against QT or libhybris.
while at it, i ended up writing a PAM module and a provider for #Fprintd which means all existing applications that use Fprintd will now work with our service.

one thing i wanted to experiment with was parallel PAM instances for stuff like sudo, so here is how far i got in about an hour

phosh 0.46.0 is out :

There's fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see for a short

to everyone who contributed to this release.

#phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile

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Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-13-2025/

Launcher or To Do list?
Depends.
#LinuxMobile

Big problem I see coming to #linuxmobile is overlapping gestures of the shell and the app.

On IOS and Android the top and bottom of the screen are always used for the mobile interface, so apps can make use of the sides.

How do we work around the issue of apps not being able to rely on side gestures on linux mobile?

I've seen apps with side swipe gestures also use a button at the top left corner which helps.

Should apps design with side gestures by default?

Nice, just a small fix and #phosh's compositor #phoc runs with #wlroots #vulkan renderer on the OnePlus6T. This needs some more work regarding e.g. alpha blending but it's already usable.

@fsfe are you in touch with the EU regarding the digital wallet (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240223IPR18095/meps-back-plans-for-an-eu-wide-digital-wallet) already? This will/can e.g. be used for the driver license in the future?

I skimmed through the documents and didn't read anything on OpenSource/ #FreeSoftware there. Would be great if we could ensure first class support for #LinuxMobile. Is that on your list? Otherwise I could at least write to the contact address given there.

in an attempt to achieve the highest app compatibility known to man, i ended up writing a daemon that allows to install, configure and run #UbuntuTouch applications on our beloved #flx1 and it actually turned out pretty nice.

this is yet another service/client setup where now the store server is refactored to work alongside android-store (used to install android apps) to lower memory usage and the client is a #GNOME software plugin

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (12/2025): GNOME 48 and other goodies

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-12-2025/