This time postmarketOS user @magdesign shares his amazing and inspiring storyof traveling around the world for the past 1.5 years... on bike! Featuring@magdesign, @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @craftyguy (in order of appearance). Marc and Fiona accept donations atbrandisbrandisbrand.com. Referenced in this episode: User:Magdesign and Sxmo/Tips and Tr…

Compared to last year, we decided to do the recording inside the cafeteriainstead of outside, and on Sunday instead of Saturday. Twice the amountof FOSDEM days to talk about, and with more people talking in the background.Enjoy! Featuring @z3ntu, @ollieparanoid, @pabloyoyoista, @craftyguy, @Newbyte, @dos,@PureTryOut, @linmob (in order of appearance…

Clayton totally surprises us for real, with his announcement of workingfull-time on postmarketOS from now on. Furthermore we are super hypedabout the upcoming FOSDEM 2024 (as we release this episode, only a week away!)and talk among other topics about how you could become a Trusted Contributor. Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @pab…

"Why am I running Linux on my desktop, but not on my phone?" is what Konradasked himself at the beginning of this amazing story that ends up with himbecoming a maintainer for Qualcomm support in Linux. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @konradybcio, @craftyguy, @calebccff (in order ofappearance). Konrad accepts donations, preferrably in form of tea ☕. Refe…

In a somewhat chaotic and much longer recording session than what ended up inthe final episode, we had a very good time talking to our friends from Mobian.As you can guess from the name, Mobian brings Mobile and Debian together,similar to what postmarketOS does on top of Alpine Linux. Featuring @kop316, @ollieparanoid, @devrtz, @calebccff, @PureTry…

Luca did it again! On the day the Fairphone 5 was released, he added it topostmarketOS. How exactly that is possible and a whole lot more about recentdevelopments and Linux Mobile related events we followed in this episode. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @z3ntu, @pabloyoyoista (in order ofappearance). Referenced in this episode: Free Silicon…

This time we did a mix of an interview and an event report with Anjan fromSxmo who just was at FOSSY 2023in Portland, OR, USA. Sxmo is a minimalist environment for Linux mobiledevices, allowing you to run a tiling window manager on your smartphone. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @anjan (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: Anjan's talk: …

Featuring @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @calebccff, @jsparber, @tbernard,@verdre, @z3ntu, @jane (in order of appearance). Upcoming events (close dates, there are many more): July 13-16 — Portland, OR: FOSSY 2023 @anjan from Sxmo will hold a talk: Thoughts after daily driving postmarketOS for 3 years July 15-21 — Thessaloniki, Greece: Akademy 2023 …

You rotate your phone and the UI rotates as well. Sounds simple, right? In thisepisode Caleb explains us why implementing it for SDM845 requires far morecomplexity than one may think - among many other topics. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @calebccff, @pabloyoyoista (in order ofappearance). Referenced in this episode: Testing Call For Test…

Natanael Copa joins us to talk about Alpine's story. From being dead scared tofork the initial version off from Gentoo to Alpine becoming bigger than himselfand making sure it stays around with a good bus factor. If you ever wonderedhow exactly apk is so incredibly fast, that is also covered - and what plansthere are to make it even faster in the f…

We are happy to announce that Pablo joined the Trusted Contributors! He hasbeen a driving force in getting GNOME Software working properly on Alpine andpostmarketOS, and since he is joining us today, guess what we talk about inthis episode! Besides that we get into getting your patches merged and the newpostmarketOS splash screen that just landed i…

Between the Saturday closing of FOSDEM 2023 and going to a restaurant, wemanaged to squeeze around a table outside the cafeteria to record the veryfirst ever in-person postmarketOS podcast episode! Fresh in the moment we shareour experiences from the FOSS on mobile devroom, meeting great people at theLinux on Mobile stand (and everywhere else at FO…

Chromebooks! We talked about them in the past, but this time we have our newestTrusted Contributor Anton aka @jenneron on to tell us more about the ~40 portswe now have in postmarketOS. Besides that we get excited about FOSDEM and talkabout more cool things cool people did. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @jenneron (in order of…

Like every other podcast in your feed we give our two cents on what's beenhappening in the Fediverse, like why it's really great to see so many freesoftware related projects and people moving over from that bird site. And thatone should seriously consider supporting the admins of the instance they areusing with a monthly donation or something. Besi…

What happens if the author of an upcoming security focused desktop OS, who isat the same time also a postmarketOS user, comes on our podcast? A lot ofinteresting questions being asked and answered from both sides for sure! Featuring @ollieparanoid, @qyliss, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order ofappearance). Referenced in this episode: Spectrum — a …

It seems Akademy 2022 had it all. Amazing talks, great people, nice weather, atour through Barcelona as well as a nearby supercomputer, climbing in amountain and for some, pizza on the beach. Or as Bart puts it, Akademy was kindof dope to be honest. Featuring @ollieparanoid, @PureTryOut, @MartijnBraam, @z3ntu (in order ofappearance). Referenced in …

In this episode we talk about the difficulties of automated phone testing.Again. Because Martijn has been continuously working on it. But that's justone of the segments, we cover quite a lot of different topics this timeactually. Featuring @calebccff, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam (in order ofappearance). Referenced in this episode: sgx540-reversin…

In this episode we talk about the difficulties of automated phone testing. Havea follow up on the SourceHut consideration and do a deep dive into both Phoshdebugging and Bluetooth features. Also there are t-shirts now! Have wementioned the t-shirts? Featuring @ollieparanoid, @calebccff, @MartijnBraam (in order ofappearance). Referenced in this epis…

Even though time is precious when participating in Game Jams, Sebastian doesnot simply generate sound effects like everybody else - instead he recordshimself playing them on real instruments. That's what we talked about when wewere done with recording this episode anyway. What he does talk about here isthe Die Hard GNU/Linux User On Phones side of …

Here's something different. We have been considering to move from gitlab.com toSourceHut and this episode right here is thecompanion to the blog postwe just released. We decided to do both so people can get a TL;DR version onthe blog with the most important information and the tentative roadmap. Butalso a fourtyone minute conversation where we go d…

Linux on A7-A8X gets us pretty excited among lots of other topics. What are youreading this for? It's a podcast, hit play already! Featuring @ollieparanoid,@MartijnBraam, @z3ntu, @PureTryOut (in order of appearance). Referenced in this episode: postmarketos-release-upgrade git repo Wiki: Upgrade to a newer postmarketOS release LINMOB.net: Upgrading…

What's Biktor's background and motivation for doing all that work with hisalternative EG25-G modem firmware? Will we finally be able to upgrade from onepostmarketOS release to the next one with upcoming v22.06? What's it like toplay around in the SDM845 audio maze? You guessed it, we'll talk about all thatand a whole lot more. Put on some headphone…

If you are like us and open the virtual LINMOB.net newspaper once a week todiscover what's new in the scene without getting your brain fried by socialmedia, you'll be as excited as we are to learn more about the person that keepsthe show running. The weekly updates is just one of his endeavours of course,we also talk about LinuxPhoneApps and some o…

"Allow yourself to spend time on things today that create more timetomorrow." - with that in mind, the new mrtest tool was created. In fact, itwas just finished up and released as 1.0.0 along with this episode. Even theaports.git support got implemented! You probably think "what the heck ismrtest" now, and don't worry, that exact question does get …

We got a chance to talk to Miles Alan about a lot of his exciting projects:how he started Sxmo, his new and even more minimalistic framebufferphone UI,and the super fast map application Mepo. The latter will not only run on Sxmoand fbp, but also Phosh and possibly on Plasma Mobile and more UIs. Featuring @craftyguy, @ollieparanoid, @MartijnBraam, @…