Newbyte

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2026-08-25 09:48:57 UTC

As of yesterday you can finally adjust media, notification, and call volume independently in #postmarketOS #Phosh! The Phosh shell currently lacks support for configuring this, but Phosh Mobile Settings has sliders for it in the "Feedback" page.
This was made possible by lots of upstream work—I only flipped a switch in feedbackd. See https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/work_items/3666 for more information.
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2026-07-11 14:30:18 UTC

#postmarketOS #pmbootstrap users: Do you have any use for the "quiet" feature enabled by the `-q` argument and if so why haven't you complained about it being broken for the last two years? 😅

2026-07-06 13:36:56 UTC

What's wrong with the GNU project? How do the developers of GNU Parallel think "Hmm yeah that sounds like a good and proper release name"?? https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/parallel/2026-06/msg00000.html

2026-04-02 22:55:05 UTC

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Here I was thinking you really wanted the letter "Å" for some reason ☹️

2026-04-02 22:35:36 UTC

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Now I'm curious, why Norwegian layout?

2025-02-14 18:13:57 UTC

Another banger of an MR finally merged after years of work! Really looking forward to a smoother #GNOME experience on my laptop.
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2025-02-13 12:22:22 UTC

No way, they finally merged it. Over five years of work.
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2025-01-25 08:35:58 UTC

Wohoo, Lomiri is finally in #postmarketOS pmaports master! (no thanks to me, I just hit the merge button)

2025-01-11 21:52:25 UTC

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Probably best to make an issue, but my immediate thoughts without really knowing anything about this device would be that it either could be some X.Org-specific problem or that you have a quirky aftermarket panel.

2024-12-11 15:03:37 UTC

First photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S III on #postmarketOS, probably! Credits to Jack Kekzoz, @npub1r3z…03cf, and whoever else helped him with getting #Megapixels working on the Midas (Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II) devices — I'm just posting about this, I didn't work on it myself. Hopefully we'll have it available in Edge over the coming months.
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2024-11-23 14:32:47 UTC

Did you ever want to play Subway Surfers on #postmarketOS without any Android emulation? No? Okay, well, apparently you can: https://yell0wsuit.page/assets/games/subway-surfers/index.html
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2024-10-28 21:52:21 UTC

Honestly amazing how well NewPipe works on the Librem 5 running via "Android Translation Layer". I had to turn down the resolution from the default 720p60fps to 240p for it to play videos reliably (didn't test anything between those) and the UI looks scuffed with various missing icons and such, but crucially it plays videos back more reliably than any other YouTube app I've tried on #postmarketOS!
On #Flathub if you want to try it yourself: https://flathub.org/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe
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2024-10-16 17:00:36 UTC

Don't say you've used a Linux phone if you haven't 100%'d Animatch (it only took me like two years)
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2024-10-08 12:08:07 UTC

If you use #pmbootstrap when working with #postmarketOS, I'd welcome any testing results for migrating your work directory with https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/merge_requests/2429. Just checkout the branch and try to run $ pmbootstrap init and it'll prompt you for whether to migrate. Even successful test results are nice to see as they build confidence in that it works properly!

2024-08-05 17:42:00 UTC

Glad to finally have #Zstd compression enabled for #AlpineLinux's linux-firmware package exactly half a year (minus a few hours) after originally opening the merge request during our post-Fosdem #postmarketOS hackathon!
If you're running Alpine (or postmarketOS) and have all linux-firmware packages installed, the on-disk space will go down from around a gigabyte to around half a gigabyte or so, which I think is pretty decent.