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Hi! This is the main Fediverse account of a blog about LINux on MOBile devices – linmob.net. It's has been restarted in 2020 because of the PinePhone.

Used to be https://identi.ca/linmob. Also on the birdsite: https://nitter.net/linmobblog.

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notjustbikes , to Random stuff
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One of the most annoying things about being an English-language content creator are the Americans who insist that everything must be about them.

I can make a video that never mentions the US once, and I will get hundreds of responses about the US.

I will get people claiming that I'm wrong because of some issue unique to the US.

I will get Americans telling me that I have a moral responsibility to help them fix their cities, despite the fact that I'm not American and I don't live there.

linmob ,
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@notjustbikes Sounds familiar. People complained to me when phone calls (or worse, the entire Linux Phone) would not work with their American MVNO (and I then had to look up which one of the actual carriers I am vaguely familiar with that used).

The upside of this: It's easy to spot the Americans!

BeanieBarrow , to Linux
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Wrote a blog post about the first two months of my Pro usage as a PDA and how I got around solving some initial hardware problems (spoiler: read the manual, then asked the support team).

Pinephone Pro: Two months in with a rough start
(6 minute read)
https://bbence.me/blog/2024-03-23-pinephone_pro_2_months_in/


@PINE64 is a company I can recommend supporting.

linmob ,
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@BeanieBarrow Nice post! For Firefox i can recommend you to give @user0 's fenix branch of https://codeberg.org/user0/mobile-config-firefox/src/branch/fenix a try. It works really well in landscape, I use it on my PinePhone Pro with keyboard case, too (see https://linmob.net/using-the-pinephone-pro-daily-despite-having-given-up-on-it/ for my post on it - I still use it daily.)
@PINE64

FediFollows , to Random stuff
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picks of the day:

➡️ @tuxdevices - Linux phone news

➡️ @linuxphoneapps - App directory for Linux phones

➡️ @ubports - Maintains Ubuntu Touch

➡️ @mobian - Debian-based distro for mobiles

➡️ @droidian - Debian-based distro for Android devices

➡️ @postmarketOS - Alpine-based distro for mobiles

➡️ @plasmamobile - Mobile interface by KDE

➡️ @PINE64 (main) & @pine64eu (EU shop) - Makers of PinePhone, low-cost Linux phone

➡️ @volla - Phones with Ubuntu Touch or de-Googled Android

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linmob ,
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@FediFollows Feel free to include this account, too - https://linmob.net sadly mostly features Weekly Update posts these days, but those hopefully still should be relevant to as they intend to collect everything relevant that happened in the week before.

18+ linmob , to Random stuff
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I love @user0's excellent mobile-config-firefox adaption (https://codeberg.org/user0/mobile-config-firefox/src/branch/fenix). Sadly, as these things go, upstream changes stuff, and with Firefox 123 the tab counter/switcher is broken: https://codeberg.org/user0/Mobile-Friendly-Firefox/issues/4

I wonder, if integrating something like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ could be a more sustainable approach?

linmob OP ,
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@user0 Thank you for the quick reply, I've found a work-around for now. 🙂

braid , to Random stuff
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Finally a native application for Linux mobile 🎉 . got just merged into testing, looking forwards to for feedback from users !

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/aports/-/commit/7ee36e2b7d7c1e28e618125347c5e3d5d4f8bfa0

linmob ,
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@martijnbraam See also https://linuxphoneapps.org/apps/business.braid.f_wallet/ ;-) @braid

linmob , to Random stuff
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GNOME Asia Summit 2023 is going to feature some -y lightning talks later today:

Contributing to Phosh as a Startup: A case study of Making some Impact on the Open Source Community
https://events.gnome.org/event/170/contributions/562/

and

Sustainable computing using mobile linux.
https://events.gnome.org/event/170/contributions/563/

Also worth a look: https://events.gnome.org/event/170/contributions/561/

linmob , to Random stuff
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Since https://fosstodon.org/@linmob/111437486318142093 is not entirely unpopular: If you are wondering if I recommend this setup: I'm torn. Two batteries make the PinePhone Pro more useful, and getting once one gets used to the keyboard, it's nice to type on.
If you have a PinePhone Pro that's sitting in a drawer, go for it - if not, there are lots of micro laptops out there that may be better by having things like a backlit keyboard, a pointing device, or a slightly bigger, not 2:1 screen.

linmob , to Random stuff
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Weekly GNU-like Update (46/2023): domain changes, an Q&A and on

https://linmob.net/weekly-update-46-2023/

linmob OP ,
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Fun fact: This Weekly Update was mostly composed on the (with keyboard accessory) running @postmarketOS edge with :

linmob , to Random stuff
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New blog post: Three Years of Weekly Updates on GNU-like Mobile Linux: Let's summarize and celebrate! https://linmob.net/three-years-of-weekly-updates-highlights/

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