postmarketOS Podcast

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August 27, 2021#8 INTERVIEW: Caleb Connolly (of OnePlus 6 / SDM845 Mainlining Fame)
Guess what, we did another interview episode - this time with Caleb! After
talking about various cool recovery systems that will make you feel like a true
hacker when used, we talk about how they got sucked into the free software
Linux smartphone scene. From how amazing it is to mainline your device and then
have the terminal appear on the screen for the first time, to how it's not
unlikely that their OnePlus 6 port becomes daily driver ready by the end of the
year.
Like always, write feedback with #postmarketOSpodcast to our
Mastodon.
Featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam, @minlexx,
@ollieparanoid, @caleb (in order of appearance).
Some ways to reach Caleb:
Homepage
Mastodon
Patreon (for donations)
Linux OnePlus Chat
Referenced in this episode:
TTYescape
mastodon post with demo video
wiki page
merge request
try it out on pmOS edge: apk add ttyescape
postmarketos-update-kernel:
support for A/B slots:
!2214
post-install triggers:
!2215
discussion to do this for all devices in community/main categories
(#1158)
not mentioned in the episode, but related: making Android kernel update
post processing distro-independent
(#1152)
Custom Android bootloader
Caleb's blog post
Mobile NixOS is able to
boot into various generations
in their custom recovery mode
How did you get into this world?
Inspired by
OnePlus 5
OnePlus 6 ports for
Sailfish OS,
Ubuntu Touch,
postmarketOS
Mainlining guides/wiki pages:
SDM845 Mainlining,
Mainlining Overview,
old guide
Phosh performance demo on OP6
WayDroid
Short demo
Caleb playing crossy road with WayDroid
Let's package WayDroid for postmarketOS:
pma#1173
Shout out to WayDroid developers @erfanoabdi et al for making this
possible, upstream repositories
What are you working on now / how can people help out?
Mastodon Thread
with cool starter programming projects for people owning a OnePlus
5/6/(7?), including the dash daemon mentioned in the episode.
Mobian announcing official support for the OnePlus 6/6T/Pocophone F1
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
46 min
July 29, 2021#7 v21.06, A-GPS, Megapixels, Bluetooth, gPodder, iPhone 7
So what is Megapixels? Not only that is answered, but we also take a deep dive
into technical details of our favorite camera application. Besides that we
cover the new release, new devices, and a whole bunch of other news.
Featuring @craftyguy, @dylanvanassche, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam (in order
of appearance). Send in your questions and feedback with #postmarketOSpodcast
on Mastodon - it's not like we don't have enough content without questions...
but if you submit a good one we might squeeze it into a future episode!
Referenced in this episode:
postmarketOS Release: v21.06
PinePhone modem improvements
eg25-manager: GNSS assistance support, sync with modem-power, etc.
(pma!2185)
modemmanager: add quick suspend/resume patches
(pma!2187)
Megapixels
repo
issues
Bluetooth OBEX and advertisement
(pma!2245)
Various small improvements
postmarketos-mkinitfs: don't depend on osk-sdl, add to initfs conditionally
(pma!2242)
postmarketos-base: move UI-specific config/dependencies into postmarketos-base-ui
(pma!2243)
pmbootstrap kconfig improvements
(search)
New devices in community
device categories
OnePlus 6
and 6T
moved to community
(pma!2088)
Xiaomi Mi Note 2
moved to community
(pma!2188)
Apple iPhone 7/7+
device page
checkra1n
project sandcastle
Onny's blog post
pma!2289
Kobo Clara HD
device page
pma!2334
Martijn's video
Sxmo after some colorscheme tweaking
gnome-clocks w/ alarm
initial MR
plan with further fixes / upstreaming
postmarketos-backup
repo
pma!2261
gpodder-adaptive (ollie managed to fix the two bugs mentioned in the
episode!)
gtkui: fix loading of cached thumbnails (gpodder!1105)
gtkui: properly scale cover/pill on high resolution displays (gpodder!1106)
and while at it:
gpodder!1107,
gpodder!1108
PineTalk
homepage / web player
the proper opus feed to add to your
podcatcher
episode 13 is the season 1 finale
episode 10 is the interview with Martijn
Editing by: @craftyguy,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
38 min
June 13, 2021#6.2 AsteroidOS, PinePhone Battery/RAM Freq, RetroArch, Firefox
Part two of what happened in May of 2021 in postmarketOS. We don't follow a
story arc, so you can listen to them in any order ;)
Featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @dylanvanassche, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam,
@ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). Send in your questions with
#postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon!
Referenced in this episode:
apkbrowser
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org (using aports-turbo)
https://pkgs.postmarketos.org (using apkbrowser)
source of apkbrowser
source of aports-turbo
AsteroidOS
AsteroidOS Homepage
main/postmarketos-ui-glacier: new aport
main/postmarketos-ui-asteroid: new aport
lg-{lenok,dory}: modernize and add AsteroidOS machine config
Mainlining SoCs
LXQt
main/postmarketos-ui-lxqt: new pmaport
with video and screenshot
LXQt homepage
PinePhone: battery improvements, DRAM clock
How to change the clock frequency
Side-by-side video of various frequencies
megi's PinePhone Development log:
2021–05–22: PinePhone kernel news mentioning
power consumption improvements
overheating warning
in megi's 5.12 releases if used without latest crust and
arm-trusted-firmware
temp/u-boot-pinephone: Automatic U-Boot upgrade and update Arm Trusted Firmware and Crust to latest commit
RetroArch:
RetroArch homepage
postmarketOS wiki:
Photos of BQ Aquaris X5 running RetroArch
RetroArch (how to run
it on your device!)
Upstream PR: add scaling to pointer input
deviceinfo_mkinitfs_postprocess:
amazon-soho: new device (and main/postmarketos-mkinitfs: change to enable postprocess scripts)
deviceinfo reference
mobile-config-firefox improvements:
issues:
help wanted, some are quite easy to implement
Make about: pages more adaptive
Add dark theme for homepage
Save vertical space by drawing directly in the titlebar
Add CSS for about:preferences
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
34 min
June 13, 2021#6.1 Alpineconf, MMS, Lomiri, PureMaps, postmarketOS-tweaks
So what happens if you do an interview episode, and then push all news from
that month into next month? You end up with recording a way too long episode.
We decided to split it up into two, so it's easier to listen to them and the
show notes for each part aren't as long. Enjoy!
Featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @dylanvanassche, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam,
@ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). Send in your questions with
#postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon!
Referenced in this episode:
AlpineConf
Four years of postmarketOS / AlpineConf 2021
blog post with all videos from the postmarketOS track of the conference,
with Q&As appended
Ariadne's recap
with a short summery for each talk
Other talks from the conference can be either found
here or
here
If you want to flex your video editing muscles:
help is wanted
with cutting the other talks too!
Sxmo has a beautiful new homepage featuring their
AlpineConf talk at the top - and some of the quotes on the start page
are also from the conference
Moved from Freenode to OFTC
postmarketOS IRC and Matrix channels
LWN: Turmoil at the freenode IRC network
Alpine announcement
PinePhone audio improvements
fix headphones jack detection
increase maximum volume headphone jack
decrease to 70%
Improve Bluetooth and notification audio support, also sample rate
MMS
mmsd-tng: kop316's mmsd fork
WIP pmaports MR for testing
on-device installer improvements
calamares-extensions: allow non-numeric passwords
#46: support non-numeric password (e.g. for Sxmo)
meanwhile has not only been enabled for Sxmo on postmarketOS edge, but also
for
plasma mobile!
For phosh
!801 needs
to find its way into the next phosh release first.
#47: support sxmo keyboard in installer (help wanted, has an action plan)
#45: sshd user isn't useful in Sxmo
has been fixed
Lomiri:
pmaports branch
related issue
Alpine CI for mir
Ariadne fixed that annoying QEMU issue!
Pure Maps:
Pure Maps does not show street names
postmarketOS-tweaks:
source and issues
gnome-tweaks
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
32 min
April 28, 2021#5 INTERVIEW: proycon (of Sxmo Fame)
A different format for the episode this time, an interview with proycon, who is one
of the sxmo developers. Besides the interview there's an announcement of Alpineconf,
an online conference about Alpine Linux.
Send in your questions with #postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon!
Featuring @craftyguy, @MartijnBraam, @PureTryOut, @dylanvanassche, @z3ntu, @proycon
(in order of appearance).
Referenced in this episode:
Alpineconf
sxmo links
sxmo user documentation
proycon's dotfiles repository
how to contribute to sxmo
example phone ring hook for sxmo
sxmo on archlinux arm by justinesmithies
sxmo demo video by Martijn
sxmo can be found on freenode OFTC on #sxmo and #oftc_#sxmo:matrix.org for Matrix
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
29 min
March 29, 2021#4 EG25-G, v21.03, Why Alpine, mobile-config-firefox
Dylan joins the team! And besides the usual bunch of news, we learn how
Martijn's kitchen counter is involved with the upcoming homepage redesign. The
questions section covers what's so great about Alpine, and what
mobile-config-firefox is all about.
Send in your questions with #postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon!
Featuring @craftyguy, @MartijnBraam, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu, @ollieparanoid,
@dylanvanassche (in order of appearance).
Referenced in this episode:
Dylan Van Assche regarding Sailfish: End of an era
pine64-pinephone: eg25-g modem improvements (now merged!)
v21.03 Release
Rename release channels to the branch names, except for edge
Release will be out on 31st of March, check
postmarketos.org then for more
information :)
main/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8974: upgrade to 5.11.10
feedbackd-device-themes
Wiki: Applications by category
Contributed by: @alpabrz, @Newbyte, @Railroadmanualjimmy, @ollieparanoid
related discussion
install-makedepends
PowerVR SGX Acceleration
Why Alpine
Alpine Releases and their support timeframes
Building a distro with musl libc: Why and how Alpine Linux did it (Video, FOSDEM 2017)
Alpine's package manager doing well in Linux package managers are slow (2019)
Allan McRae from Arch Linux pointed out that the benchmarks are not
accurate though (didn't know that at time of recording), hopefully
the author does them again at some point (looks like it form the
notes on top of the blog post).
From experience we know that Alpine's package manager is one of the
fastest out there.
For people curious about optimizing package manager speed, check out
distri
mobile-config-firefox
Using Firefox Remote Debugger with mobile Linux distros, to edit Firefox UI CSS with the Element
Inspector etc.
Upstream discussion
Editing by: @craftyguy,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
33 min
February 21, 2021#3 Librem 5, Mainlining, Feedbackd, Plasma 5.21
Lots of news to share, then answering a few #postmarketOSpodcast questions
(keep them coming!). Featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam
and @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance).
Referenced in this episode:
openrc-settingsd
GPodder
Matrix clients:
Fractal
Mirage
NeoChat
Chatty WIP matrix support:
pmaports branch
upstream issue
mobile-config-firefox
Bugfixes:
GTK3 adaptive dialogs fix
pine64-pinephone: move shelli alsa cfg to subpkg
Librem 5
Jumpdrive support
pmOS wiki page with updated install instructions
Mainlining
main/linux-postmarketos-qcom-msm8916: upgrade to 5.11_rc5
motorola-osprey: switch to mainline
feedbackd: configure haptic feedback per device
pine64-pinephone: eg25-g modem improvements (testers wanted)
KDE Plasma 5.21 upgrade
5.20.90 in pmaports (beta testing in pmOS)
5.21 in aports
apk support in discover
Introduce support for "unmaintained" devices
Improvements for Nexus 5
Device porting:
Porting to a new device
Matrix and IRC, porting and mainlining channels
Mainlining: Supported SoCs
Devices wiki page
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
38 min
January 20, 2021#2 Roadmap, daily driving and how to help
The second episode of our podcast featuring @craftyguy, @z3ntu, @PureTryOut, @MartijnBraam and @ollieparanoid (in
order of appearance).
This episode features a news update of the progress of some components of postmarketOS and we answer some of
the #postmarketOSpodcast questions submitted after the release of the first episode.
We also added a legacy mp3 rss-feed to the podcast for Apple devices.
Referenced this episode:
Translating postmarketOS wiki page
MMS effort by kop316
Mobile optimisation for gpodder: #930,
#938 and on the postmarketOS side:
#872 and !1822
Releases wiki page for our roadmap (see the linked milestones for details)
v20.05.1 merge request
Contributing wiki page
List of issues marked "easy"
List of issues marked "help wanted"
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
28 min
December 19, 2020 #1 History
Our first podcast episode featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @z3ntu,
@MartijnBraam and @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). We go into the
project's history and share a couple of anecdotes from before postmarketOS was
published until the creation of the PinePhone postmarketOS community edition in
2020.
Consider giving us some feedback (and questions for future episodes!) with
#postmarketOSpodcast on Mastodon.
Editing by: @MartijnBraam,
Music by: The Passion HiFi
26 min

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