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An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu: 🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles. 📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates, 🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops, 🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL #EUpol #sustainability #tech […]

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

How to count from one to four in #Finnish: Yksi Kaksi Kolme Sauna #kaj

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

If someone were to invest development resources into the Open Source ecosystem right now, improvements to which area would benefit the user experience across all device form factors (desktop, laptop, mobile etc.) the most? You can name both individual […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

The (lack of) understanding of "consent" by #GitHub and #Microsoft here is concerning. Let me put it like this, the people responsible would not be invited to the fun parties. https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/20/github-wants-to-spam-open-source-projects-with-ai-slop/ #AI #GenAI #LLMs […]

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

#Newsflash is a great @gnome app that supports synchronization with #NextCloud #News. The new 4.0 Beta release now works much better on my @furilabs #FLX1 phone. Especially the web view is so much smoother. #linuxmobile

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Looking for a PCI graphics card for my Windows 98 PC. It's crazy how many different spellings of "PCIe" and "PCI Express" sellers are using online, the filter list is getting longer and longer. My favourite at the moment must be "PCI-E16". #retrocomputing

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

@osuosl has been around for 22 years. They kindly host our gitlab for 6 months now, and provide important services for more than 150 other free and open source software communities such as @alpinelinux, @chimera , @debian, @fdroidorg, @gentoo, @gnome, @LineageOS, #ReplicantOS, @torproject. Now […]

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

So there was something special in the mail today... Don't think I've played this much Great Giana Sisters ever before #c64 #retrocomputing

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

If I've been quiet about my @Furilabs #FLX1 phone lately it's mostly because so much stuff just works and the rest is being fixed at breakneck speed. It allows me to concentrate on all the other things. #linuxmobile

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about how Google's recent antitrust losses have given hope that a new, more decentralized version of the web might still be possible https://www.platformer.news/google-antitrust-search-advertising-remedies/

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

i'm very happy to say we officially secured a second @nlnet grant this year, this one is for the development of "MNT Reform Touch", which is currently planned as a 7-inch modular, upgradable OSHW tablet powered by a Qualcomm SoC (probably QCS6490 initially, but will have compat to other MNT […]

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (16/2025): Counting Easter Eggs https://linmob.net/weekly-update-16-2025/ #LinuxMobile #UbuntuTouch #SailfishOS #postmarketOS #Librem5 #PureOS #FuriOS #FuriLabsFLX1 #PinePhone

submitted 65 days ago • 0 comments

Awesome new #C64 demo made by using the #SID chip to generate video signals. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_Orvsms7Ils #retrocomputing #demoscene

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Getting into #Rust feels unnecessarily hard. Too many abstractions and poor documentation (either none or way too complex) across the whole crate ecosystem.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I didn't want to take my usual set of expensive lenses on my recent trip to #Centralamerica for safety reasons, so I bit the bullet and got the #Nikon NIKKOR Z 28-400mm f/4-8 VR travel zoom as a compromise. All my fears and reservations regarding sharpness […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 68 days ago • 1 comment

#RetroComputing #VintageAds #VintageTech So I found a link to this article through Facebook. It's interesting to look at the progress of consumer and professional computer technology and this is definitely a nice way of quantifying the progress […]

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Zum Vintage Computing Festival Europe #vcfe gibt es ein von Bernd Sedlmair und Hans Franke entwickeltes, deutschsprachiges Textadventure namens "VCFE - Ein Wochenende unter Nerds", das mittels der Zork-Maschine ausgeführt werden kann […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

The good: It seems like recent updates in the libraries it is based on have enabled #Flare (the #Signal client) to successfully register as a "Primary Device" again. I can use it as a standalone client to talk to other Signal accounts. The not so good: It only works for direct chats, not groups […]

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

I love the #Fediverse for nonsense like https://1.6.0.0.8.0.0.b.e.d.0.a.2.ip6.arpa/about

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

About a year ago I decided to quit my job after 25 years in the #IT industry to #travel the world for a while. So far I've traveled more than 162.000 kilometers across 23 countries (#Australia #NewZealand #Singapore #Germany #Denmark #Sweden #Norway #Finland […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

submitted 76 days ago • 1 comment

I'm giving up maintainership of the #Subsurface dive log package on #Flathub. There is a too wide gap between how it is developed and what Flathub/Flatpak expects, and I still can't use the Flathub version with my own dive computer because there are Bluetooth issues I have no idea how to debug […]

submitted 77 days ago • 1 comment

I just finished the #Leviathan trilogy by #ScottWesterfeld and moments later I see a jar of #Bovril for the first time in my life. What an incredible coincidence. #books #reading

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

The true achievement of "AI" is to demonstrate how low the bars were the whole time. #AI

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

phosh 0.46.0 is out 🚀📱 : There's 🐛 fixes and improvements, check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.46.0/ for details or see 👇 for a short 🧵 🙏 to everyone who contributed to this release. #phosh #librem5 #pinephone #gtk #wlroots #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile 1/N

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

I've been wondering for quite a while if there's a secret race among #EU officials for the worst advertisement possible. I think we can safely assume the answer to be "Yes" now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5rCEb16yTY #europeancommission #prdisaster

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

I've been using #Flare on #LinuxMobile as my main #Signal client for a few weeks and can't recommend it to anyone looking for something just half-way stable. It cannot act as a primary device and therefore not standalone. It continuously loses its connection to the servers. Sometimes it can't […]

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

@fsfe are you in touch with the EU regarding the digital wallet (https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240223IPR18095/meps-back-plans-for-an-eu-wide-digital-wallet) already? This will/can e.g. be used for the driver license in the future? I skimmed through the documents and didn't […]

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

The new #Fujifilm #GFX100RF might be one of the worst marketing stunts I've seen in a while. A "street photography" camera with a 102 megapixel sensor, a fixed lens (!) that opens up to just f/4 (!), without an optical image stabilizer (!), that can take just 4K@30 videos, for 5500 euros. The […]

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Wake up babe, @GIMP 3.0 was just tagged 👀 • https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/tree/GIMP_3_0_0?ref_type=tags • https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/commit/9785099e5a0dcdc3011dd26c6c2e9b332d36c035 There's an ongoing effort to publish it on Flathub as well […]

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

It seems very strange that #SpaceX, which already has a very reliable system with the #Falcon9, is apparently making and repeating so many mistakes with #Starship and is so far behind stuff that was made 50 years ago. This can't just be #Musk rushing things and trying to save money. Maybe his […]

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

I attached an #RTLSDR USB receiver to my @Furilabs #FLX1. It works as expected, in this screenshot receiving all of our neighbor's wireless weather stations. (And the odd wireless tire pressure sensor, now I have to find that Toyota and tell its owner it's […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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