Nostr notes by Bardia

thanks a lot Robert! that was indeed the solution it now detects ...

2025-04-11T20:02:03Z

In reply to nevent1q…dg4f
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thanks a lot Robert! that was indeed the solution

it now detects and works fine

ah i see. we provide gstpipewire itself. so it talks to our stack ...

2025-04-11T19:03:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…0xd7
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ah i see. we provide gstpipewire itself. so it talks to our stack and provide it through pipewiresrc (so we control the module in this case with a debian diversion)
we provide v4l the same way but instead of a gstreamer module diversion we use v4l2loopback
if it needs a property over pipewiredeviceprovider or pipewiresrc we can provide that too and that can keep aperture happy

if its desirable for front facing cameras then perhaps disabling ...

2025-04-11T18:34:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…y960
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if its desirable for front facing cameras then perhaps disabling it for back facing camera is an acceptable compromise

i can't think of anything else before we get into touching pipewire itself

i would say a simple gsettings key would be enough since other ...

2025-04-11T16:28:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…glvj
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i would say a simple gsettings key would be enough since other applications (such as gnome contacts or gst launch itself) that use pipewiresrc directly work fine. forcing a known wrong assumption by default sounds a bit odd to me

so perhaps it can be disabled by default then a key can enable this mirroring behavior and everyone is happy

is it too late to join the #pipewire party? i hope not, or else ...

2025-04-10T07:02:04Z

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

#furios #furilabs #LinuxMobile #mobilelinux

for this months updates, we are reworking our fingerprint setup ...

2025-04-04T03:04:10Z

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

#furilabs #flx1 #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1

in an attempt to achieve the highest app compatibility known to ...

2025-03-26T03:53:11Z

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

#ubports #furilabs #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1

welp thats two for two. hopefully we can have #sailfishos with ...

2025-03-20T00:44:41Z

welp thats two for two.

hopefully we can have #sailfishos with VoLTE on release too very soon

ah yes i should add, if anyone is interested in bringing their distro feel free to contact us through our contact form (https://furilabs.com/contact/), and we will be happy to consider all requests if they help grow the ecosystem with more *mobile linux* options

#ubports #ubuntutouch #flx1 #furilabs #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1

welp thats two for two. hopefully we can have #sailfishos with ...

2025-03-20T00:40:40Z

as some might recall, we were working on a feature to allow multi ...

2025-03-17T22:45:18Z

as some might recall, we were working on a feature to allow multi booting different systems easily and without any hassle ( partitioning etc).

around that time we started to get in contact with known porters of different systems such as #UbuntuTouch and #sailfishos

after much effort and work, i can confidently say that the #flx1 will be added to the #UBports installer and OTA server soon allowing allow bare metal and multi boot installs!

#furilabs #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile #furiphoneflx1

after many days of work, here is another functional demo of ...

2025-03-16T03:36:04Z

after many days of work, here is another functional demo of #GNOME shell running on the secondary display connected to the #flx1. it took many hours to build the app and make everything act nice and not crash and integrate cleanly. still a long way to go but i think it is a good time to showcase the progress in the past 7 days.

i hope to get this ready and done by 13.0.9 which is the next release but obviously no promises.

#debian #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile

another update on this the battery has now dropped by 30% in 85 ...

2025-03-09T17:01:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…kf7n
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another update on this the battery has now dropped by 30% in 85 hours.

at this rate it the estimated 100 to 0 is roughly around 12.5 days. of course there is still room for optimizations so we can easily get it to 14 days of idle time, but i think this will do for this month.

#flx1 #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile

so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few ...

2025-03-09T07:12:51Z

so yes the rumors are correct (this was leaked on reddit a few days ago, oh well)

the #FLX1 will be getting support for hooking up to external displays. the difference here compared to other approaches is that it will be running full #GNOME shell instead of #Phosh desktop mode (with some integration). as much as we love Phosh, GNOME shell simply provides a superior experience on a large display (and our community members voted for this too)

#furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile

#FuriOS update 13.0.8 for #FLX1 has been delayed by about 10 ...

2025-03-07T04:20:44Z

#FuriOS update 13.0.8 for #FLX1 has been delayed by about 10 days, but you why was this?

I decided to find the reason for the battery drain here is what we found

firstly, packagekit is a battery hog, so we wrote a #GNOME software plugin for aptkit for system updates, second was related to modems mainloop being blocked (sometimes and inconsistently) and not going to sleep and last (the hardest to find) was with the WiFi driver not going to sleep correctly.

All fixed up and landing this month!

whats funny to me is how misinformative some blog/news websites ...

2025-02-15T16:38:32Z

whats funny to me is how misinformative some blog/news websites are.
one example being https://www.howtogeek.com/weird-and-wacky-linux-hardware-devices/
people, bloggers, journalists. for god's sake, at least contact us to get some info before talking technical.

You have a Debian rootfs, then there's one lxc that runs a small system image which exposes some services in binder that we interact with for things like sensors or the modem
The base system is Debian
Android apps work in a separate container too.
Please get your facts right!

Initially the plan for bootman was to make it split a partition ...

2025-01-26T22:36:36Z

Initially the plan for bootman was to make it split a partition from LVM and reuse that for dual boot, but then Dogman (npub1u4m…y99l) brought up sd card for installation storage which sounded good, so i decided to make it work. now, it can now boot from that too.

This will also allow for installation of other operating systems such as SailfishOS or Ubuntu Touch when they get ported over to the device, so its not limited to FuriOS only.

#flx1 #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile #LinuxMobile

someone in the chat asked if the flx1 can run a KVM machine and ...

2025-01-15T08:32:01Z

someone in the chat asked if the flx1 can run a KVM machine and my initial thought process was well, probably not out of the box since during the boot process EL2 is locked and even if kernel has KVM, it will never initialize correctly.

so today after finishing my daily tasks i decided to take a stab at our bootloader, preloader and trustzone's source code.

Lo and behold, turns out i did indeed cook.

Docker support will land in the next release too!

#flx1 #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #qemu #kvm

Now that the 13.0.6 is in prod, time to showcase something I have ...

2025-01-08T02:49:50Z

Now that the 13.0.6 is in prod, time to showcase something I have been working on for a few days during our QA time of this release. (yes we have a QA team lol)

Bootman is a boot manager that can switch between multiple installed systems (currently FuriOS only since we support that officially and no port for other systems exist yet).

I have a GTK4 app in progress that can install FuriOS (and possibly other systems in the future), hopefully we can land this for release 13.0.7.
#flx1 #furilabs