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  • #28 FOSDEM 2023

    Between the Saturday closing of FOSDEM 2023 and going to a restaurant, we

    managed to squeeze around a table outside the cafeteria to record the very
    first ever in-person postmarketOS podcast episode! Fresh in the moment we share
    our experiences from the FOSS on mobile devroom, meeting great people at the
    Linux on Mobile stand (and everywhere else at FOSDEM/in Brussels) and random
    other cool things that were going down.

    Featuring @spaetz (sampled in the intro), @ollieparanoid, @linmob, @craftyguy,

    @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu (in order of appearance).

    Photos:

    • @calebccff: "recorded the first in person @postmarketOS podcast episode LIVE from #FOSDEM !"
    • @craftyguy: "#postmarketOS core team... Assemble!"
    • @awai: "The beauty and diversity of the #LinuxOnMobile bazaar!"
    • @z3ntu: "The Linux on Mobile stand at #FOSDEM is pretty packed!"
    • @linmob: "#FOSDEM was really awesome, it only went by too quickly!…"
    • @mntmn: "this was ~intense~! thanks to everyone who was interested in MNT Pocket Reform…"

      • Video recordings of the talks:

      • Where do we go from here? (Audio fixup)
        • Matrix room: #fossmo-wg:matrix.org
        • FOSS on mobile devices devroom (as of writing, most talks have already been uploaded)

          • PinePhone and Lima / Mesa:

          We're aware that

          mesa#8198
          is still causing problems for people on the PinePhone. Big thanks to @enues
          from mesa who was talking to us at the stand and is now looking into it! We
          also have issue
          pmaports#805 about
          screen freezes. If you are affected by this and would like to help out, firing
          up a profiler and making/contributing to detailed, useful bugreports upstream
          at mesa is appreciated.

          @spaetz from Mobian did a great job at moderating the devroom! (Correction:

          Ollie said from Maemo instead of Mobian in the recording.)

          Editing by: @ollieparanoid,

          Music by: The Passion HiFi

          31 min
        • #27 Chromebooks, SDM845 Wakeup for Calls, Installing pmOS, dnsane

          Chromebooks! We talked about them in the past, but this time we have our newest

          Trusted Contributor Anton aka @jenneron on to tell us more about the ~40 ports
          we now have in postmarketOS. Besides that we get excited about FOSDEM and talk
          about more cool things cool people did.

          Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @jenneron (in order of

          appearance).

          Referenced in this episode:

          • New trusted contributor: @jenneron

            • Team members
            • Chromebooks
            • Microsoft Surface RT

            • FOSDEM '23

              • FOSS on Mobile Devices devroom
              • Linux on Mobile stand

              • SourceHut

                • postmarketos#49:
                  • Considering move to SourceHut (2023-01-29 update in top post)
                • Wiki: Patch review workflow on SourceHut
                  • explaining the b4 based workflow

                • SDM845 Wakeup for Calls

                  • Caleb's post

                  • Hackerboards

                    • hackerboards.com
                    • Martijn's blog: Finding an SBC

                    • Rewritten wiki pages

                      • Installation
                      • pmbootstrap

                      • dnsane

                        • dnsane.git
                        • In the time between recording and releasing this episode, @fluvf pointed
                          • out in
                          pmaports!3805
                          that dnsmasq could be used as well, and we'll probably do that to solve
                          the problem.

                        • AppStream related

                          • pmaports!3757
                            • [RFC] temp/alpine-appstream-downloader: new aport
                          • pmaports#1384:
                            • Software Apps (GNOME Software, Plasma Discover) issues and improvements

                          • PinePhone Modem SDK

                            • Release 0.7.2:
                              • Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

                              Editing by: @MartijnBraam,

                              Music by: The Passion HiFi

                              49 min
                            • #26 Mastodon, Mailbag, v22.12, RISC-V, pmbootstrap CI

                              Like every other podcast in your feed we give our two cents on what's been

                              happening in the Fediverse, like why it's really great to see so many free
                              software related projects and people moving over from that bird site. And that
                              one should seriously consider supporting the admins of the instance they are
                              using with a monthly donation or something. Besides that, we share some news on
                              soon-to-be-released v22.12 such as call audio support for OP6 and other cool
                              stuff that has been happening.

                              Featuring @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance).

                              Referenced in this episode:

                              • Mastodon:

                                • Fosstodon: More Upgrades!
                                • Co-author of the ActivityPub spec explaining the ecosystem and its
                                  • history in more detail in a great podcast episode:
                                  FOSS and Crafts 53: Fediverse reflections while the bird burns

                                • Poll: do you daily drive a postmarketOS phone?

                                • Late Night Linux 205

                                  where Joe tried out pmOS on a Samsung Galaxy S III

                                • Lemmy comment

                                  describing LXC/LXD based Panixticon virtualization project

                                • Megapixels 1.6.0

                                • Waydroid: pmOS image deleted, requires user intervention

                                • Jami's amazing Volla Phone (original and 22) Mediatek mainlining

                                • pmOS wiki: PinePhone U-Boot Upgrade

                                • pmOS wiki: pmbootstrap CI

                                  Editing by: @ollieparanoid,

                                  Music by: The Passion HiFi, @ollieparanoid

                                  51 min
                                • #25 INTERVIEW: Alyssa Ross (of Spectrum Fame)

                                  What happens if the author of an upcoming security focused desktop OS, who is

                                  at the same time also a postmarketOS user, comes on our podcast? A lot of
                                  interesting questions being asked and answered from both sides for sure!

                                  Featuring @ollieparanoid, @qyliss, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of

                                  appearance).

                                  Referenced in this episode:

                                  • Spectrum — a step towards usable secure computing

                                    • Using packages from NixOS
                                    • Using virtio-fs
                                    • Inspired by Qubes OS
                                    • Participating in Spectrum
                                    • Alyssa accepts donations

                                    • pma#1596:

                                      concept for privilege separation in postmarketOS

                                    • pmOS principles, user facing

                                    • pma#1133:

                                      enable zram swap by default for some (or all?) devices

                                    • How many users do we have?

                                      Martijn was curious as well

                                    • VDO.ninja

                                      (source)

                                      Editing by: @MartijnBraam,

                                      Music by: The Passion HiFi

                                      1 hr 12 min
                                    • #24 Akademy 2022

                                      It seems Akademy 2022 had it all. Amazing talks, great people, nice weather, a

                                      tour through Barcelona as well as a nearby supercomputer, climbing in a
                                      mountain and for some, pizza on the beach. Or as Bart puts it, Akademy was kind
                                      of dope to be honest.

                                      Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @MartijnBraam, @z3ntu (in order of

                                      appearance).

                                      Referenced in this episode:

                                      • Akademy 2022 Homepage with talk schedule etc.

                                      • Recordings of the talks will probably show up soon at:

                                        https://cdn.files.kde.org/akademy/2022

                                      • Plasma Mobile in 2022: stream,

                                        talk details

                                      • Jonathan Esk-Riddel's diary:

                                        Akademy 2022 in Barcelona Day 1 Talks,
                                        great blog post (also the follow-ups), featuring a nice photo of Bhushan on
                                        the big screen

                                      • Nate Graham's blog: Adventures in Linux and KDE

                                      • Wikipedia: MareNostrum

                                        supercomputer

                                        Editing by: @MartijnBraam,

                                        Music by: The Passion HiFi

                                        32 min
                                      • #23 PVR SGX540, Kupfer, UBports installer, SoCs, Phone Testing II

                                        In this episode we talk about the difficulties of automated phone testing.

                                        Again. Because Martijn has been continuously working on it. But that's just
                                        one of the segments, we cover quite a lot of different topics this time
                                        actually.

                                        Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam (in order of

                                        appearance).

                                        Referenced in this episode:

                                        • sgx540-reversing

                                          • blog post

                                          • Kupfer

                                            • Homepage
                                            • kupferbootstrap
                                            • pkgbuilds
                                            • Danctnix
                                            • Note from Prawn (project lead of Kupfer): pinephones are not on kupfer yet

                                            • Pablo's GTK fix for GTK4 apps crashing on start up

                                              • Made it into GTK 4.8.0, which means we were able to drop temp/gtk4.0 again \o/
                                              • gtk!4687:
                                                • glcontext: Respect ES API when getting gl version from shared context
                                              • gtk#4764

                                              • pipewire!1379:

                                                Add a ModemManager support to native HFP backend

                                              • UBports installer

                                                • git repository with good README.md
                                                • !2511: plugins: initial postmarketOS support

                                                • GNOME Shell on Mobile

                                                  • GNOME Shell on mobile: An update
                                                  • pma!3404: add the gnome-mobile UI
                                                  • pmOS wiki page

                                                  • SoCs

                                                    • Mainlining#Supported_SoCs
                                                    • SoC Communities
                                                    • Recently added: Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G (SM7125) with samsung-a52q in pma!3379

                                                    • Conferences

                                                      • KDE Akademy
                                                      • FOSDEM 2023,
                                                        • announcement:
                                                        "While there are still a lot of open questions, we are aiming for a
                                                        physical FOSDEM 2023. It's both exciting and scary."

                                                      • Automated Phone Testing: pt.2

                                                        and pt.3

                                                      • How to contribute

                                                        • Caleb: How you can help the Linux Mobile ecosystem
                                                        • pmOS wiki: Contributing

                                                          • Editing by: @ollieparanoid,

                                                          Music by: The Passion HiFi,
                                                          @ollieparanoid

                                                          39 min
                                                        • #22 Automated Phone Testing, SourceHut, Debugging Phosh, Merch

                                                          In this episode we talk about the difficulties of automated phone testing. Have

                                                          a follow up on the SourceHut consideration and do a deep dive into both Phosh
                                                          debugging and Bluetooth features. Also there are t-shirts now! Have we
                                                          mentioned the t-shirts?

                                                          Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of

                                                          appearance).

                                                          Referenced in this episode:

                                                          • Ardour

                                                          • Automated Phone Testing pt.1

                                                          • Considering SourceHut, Part 2

                                                            • pmbootstrap check idea (pmb#2169)

                                                            • Bluetooth / Pulseaudio / ModemManager

                                                              • bluetooth: report AG battery level
                                                                • (pulseaudio!631)
                                                              • Add DTMF support for QMI modems
                                                                • (ModemManager!823)

                                                              • plugins: android-boot: new plugin

                                                                (fwupd!4993)

                                                              • Debugging Phosh

                                                                • "error in client communication" on samsung-m0
                                                                  • (phosh#828)
                                                                • New wiki articles:
                                                                  • Debugging the GNOME stack
                                                                  • Analyzing Coredumps
                                                                  • v22.06 SP2: The One That Swipes
                                                                  • Scaling introduces stepping to gestures and GTK applications
                                                                    • (phoc#293)

                                                                  • Merch

                                                                    • https://postmarketos.org/merch
                                                                    • artwork.git

                                                                      • Editing by: @MartijnBraam,

                                                                      Music by: The Passion HiFi,
                                                                      @ollieparanoid

                                                                      45 min
                                                                    • #21 INTERVIEW: Sebastian Krzyszkowiak (of Phosh, Librem 5 Fame)

                                                                      Even though time is precious when participating in Game Jams, Sebastian does

                                                                      not simply generate sound effects like everybody else - instead he records
                                                                      himself playing them on real instruments. That's what we talked about when we
                                                                      were done with recording this episode anyway. What he does talk about here is
                                                                      the Die Hard GNU/Linux User On Phones side of himself, and how he channels it into
                                                                      developing all these amazing Phoc/Phosh and Librem 5 improvements! Also how he
                                                                      has used a certain non-GNU libc based mobile Linux distribution, and how he
                                                                      fulfilled his dreams of shrinking windows.

                                                                      Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam, @dos (in order of

                                                                      appearance).

                                                                      Referenced in this episode:

                                                                      • git repos: phoc,

                                                                        phosh,
                                                                        wlroots

                                                                      • @afontain's Swosh (Sway + Phosh) experiments, with a

                                                                        photo:
                                                                        pma!1357

                                                                      • Towards GNOME Shell on mobile

                                                                      • Nokia N900: Maemo OG and

                                                                        Maemo Leste

                                                                      • pmOS blog:

                                                                        Why supporting the Librem Phone crowdfunding campaign helps postmarketOS (and friends)

                                                                      • scale-to-fit: source,

                                                                        pmOS wiki,
                                                                        Purism post,
                                                                        @linmob's howto

                                                                      • @craftyguy's post about

                                                                        postmarketOS on Librem 5

                                                                      • Guido's DebConf22 talk:

                                                                        The current state of Debian on smartphones

                                                                        Editing by: @MartijnBraam,

                                                                        Music by: The Passion HiFi

                                                                        53 min
                                                                      • #20 Considering SourceHut

                                                                        Here's something different. We have been considering to move from gitlab.com to

                                                                        SourceHut and this episode right here is the
                                                                        companion to the blog post
                                                                        we just released. We decided to do both so people can get a TL;DR version on
                                                                        the blog with the most important information and the tentative roadmap. But
                                                                        also a fourtyone minute conversation where we go deep. There is a lot to talk
                                                                        about, and this episode is like a glimpse into the many hours of team meetings
                                                                        we had on this topic before the announcement. Featuring @craftyguy,
                                                                        @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order of appearance).

                                                                        If you have contributed to postmarketOS in the past: looking forward to your

                                                                        thoughts on this in
                                                                        postmarketos#49.

                                                                        Editing by: @ollieparanoid,

                                                                        Music by: The Passion HiFi

                                                                        42 min
                                                                      • #19 apk fix, qbootctl, Phosh 0.20, iPhones and more Apples

                                                                        Linux on A7-A8X gets us pretty excited among lots of other topics. What are you

                                                                        reading this for? It's a podcast, hit play already! Featuring @ollieparanoid,
                                                                        @MartijnBraam, @z3ntu, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance).

                                                                        Referenced in this episode:

                                                                        • postmarketos-release-upgrade

                                                                          • git repo
                                                                          • Wiki: Upgrade to a newer postmarketOS release
                                                                          • LINMOB.net: Upgrading to postmarketOS 22.06 (Phosh) on PinePhone
                                                                            • (TilVids,
                                                                            YouTube)
                                                                          • Should we just ignore small packaging errors and run 'apk fix'
                                                                            • afterwards? (relup#5)
                                                                          • v22.06 is out!

                                                                          • Plasma Mobile + GTK keyboard fix

                                                                            • pma#1050

                                                                            • himitsu-keyring

                                                                              • git repo
                                                                              • packaged in Alpine: apk add himitsu-keyring
                                                                              • Drew DeVault:
                                                                                • Introducing the Himitsu keyring & password manager for Unix

                                                                              • qbootctl

                                                                                • git repo
                                                                                • Install qbootctl on A/B sdm845 devices
                                                                                  • (pma!3190)

                                                                                • Phosh 0.20

                                                                                  • v0.20.0_beta1
                                                                                    • and beta2
                                                                                  • Martijn: Phosh 0.20 Beta 1 on a PinePhone

                                                                                  • GNOME Shell on mobile

                                                                                    • GNOME.org: Towards GNOME Shell on mobile
                                                                                    • Caleb giving it a try on OnePlus 6
                                                                                      • and does a side-by-side with Phosh
                                                                                    • Martijn: Gnome stack performance on the PinePhone and Samsung Galaxy SII

                                                                                    • iPhones and more Apples

                                                                                      • Initial announcement post by Konrad and @quaack723
                                                                                      • Konrad Dybcio: Linux on A7-A8X - How we got Linux on the iPhone, iPad and other iDevices
                                                                                        • (the definitive blog post to read about this, also maybe buy Konrad a cup of tea ☕)
                                                                                      • @quaack723: new Matrix room for Apple mainline porting
                                                                                      • linux-apple-resources
                                                                                      • Konrad's call to extend
                                                                                        • adt_collection
                                                                                        "not only a7-a8x, every iDevice is welcome! (did I mention homepod runs on a8)"
                                                                                      • @riscv64: XFCE4 on iPad Pro 9.7 Inch (Wi-Fi)
                                                                                      • @dedbeddedbed: linux on apple tv 4
                                                                                      • arstechnica: Have an old iPad lying around? You might be able to make it run Linux soon

                                                                                      • Fix for modem disappearing with @Biktorgj's FW

                                                                                        • Make open firmware identifyable in udev
                                                                                          • (#122)

                                                                                          Editing by: @ollieparanoid,

                                                                                          Music by: The Passion HiFi

                                                                                          30 min

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