Another FOSDEM and hackathon are in the rear-view mirror, and it is hard to find words to describe how amazingly productive and fun the experience was! We met so many people at the postmarketOS stand, in the FOSS on Mobile devroom and at dinners in the evening. As always it is fun to put faces to nicknames and to talk about the Linux Mobile ecosystem, and figure out how to improve it in person.
Find photos and what we got done in the blog post:
My #FOSDEM talk recording from today is already public! Check it out in case you missed the talk (or didn't get into the room because it was packed full)
Finally on my way to #FOSDEM! Excited to meet up with people and also to attend talks, lots to look forward to. I'll be around the #LinuxMobile area probably :linux:
If you see this toot and would like to hang out, regardless of whether we know each other, feel free to drop a reply. Great opportunity to make new friends :)
We've just merged some code to automatically scale up the on screen keyboard in landscape on larger screens like tablets also allowing it to use more horizontal space.
While at that we also added the necessary bits to scale up font and icons on the keyboard's keys accordingly which also helps on phones when going to higher resolutions.
There's still some low hanging improvements like scaling down in landscape on phones or improving the touch area for the shortcuts and completion bars. Let us know if you want to help with that!
A screenshot from a tablet running Phosh. The on screen keyboard takes the whole width and scales takes a fixed physical size independent from the screen resolution.
#postmarketos#linuxmobile hello from the Moto G7 (river)! So far just the basics (eMMC, SD, WiFi, BT, display, touch, GPU, USB-C), almost modem, no audio or camera yet, and battery charger is missing for the platform for now. Coming soon to qcom-msm8953!
It's definitely more usable than nora (msm8917/2GB), at least I can actually scroll mastodon for a long time and read linked articles, but it's still reeeeeally slow UI wise. Somehow I expected more from the SDM632 —hey, it has perf cores, A73-based can't be that bad— but no, those suck too. Geekbench 6 single-core score is ~300, like the Pi 4, massively worse than the sc7180 (7c) and Pi 5 which score ~850. (But hey, msm8917 did 150 lol)
firefox webrender profiler showing perf graphs over a mastodon explore page (visible post says "Conversely to popular beliefs, my job would actually be much easier if AI-generated shenanigans wouldn't exist at all") Lots of red in the graphs, max cpu frame time is above 200ms
🥳 Earlier today we landed the bits in #phosh to show the splash screens of running apps in the overview. This also hopefully looks a bit more polished than the initial version. Likely not much news on other platforms but this was bugging us for some time 😅:
We made good progress on automated hardware testing in postmarketOS, resulting in being able to run pmaports changes on a real OP6T! Thanks to everybody who donated to postmarketOS or contributed their time to make this possible! ❤️
Coldbrew (formerly "iced") has been added to the Alpine package repos by @ and will now be included in #postmarketOS duranium immutable images, allowing you to install and use anything from the Alpine package repos without modifying your real rootfs!
It works on regular Alpine installs too of course, if you want to manage software per-user or without needing root access
I accidentally hit publish today, so I found an apology figured I could leave all of those German sentence structures so it's clear that this blog is #NoAI 🙃 :P.