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Martin Hamilton🔜DECT:8080@WHY<p>Duck Facts on your homescreen? It's more likely than you'd think! :duck_verified: </p><pre><code>${execp shuf -n 1 $HOME/duck-facts.txt | fold -s -w30 | sed -e 's/^/${alignc}/g'}$<br></code></pre><p><a href="https://martinh.net/tags/DuckFacts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuckFacts</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/PostmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostmarketOS</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/SXMO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SXMO</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/Conky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conky</span></a></p>
Pastel Solitude<p>For fun I wanted to try coming up with my idea for a postmarketOS mascot.<br>(this is totally unofficial btw! I hope folks from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>postmarketOS</span></a></span> dont mind.)</p><p>I made the initial sketch in Krita, but then decided to finally give Inkscape a try, took me whole weekend but it's here!</p><p>Robot bnuuy. :bunhdlurk: </p><p>Also shout out to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.garudalinux.org/@RannyBergamotte" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>RannyBergamotte</span></a></span> who came up with the cute little stick arm version of pmOS logo, I had to include it! 💚 </p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/krita" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>krita</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/inkscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>inkscape</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/digitalart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalart</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/cute" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cute</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/mobilelinux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mobilelinux</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a></p>
Ara@Ungeekiness<p>Nobody can liberate you. You have to do it yourself. That could be your starting point of truly become a free human being. Which also can lead to the enlightening to nirvana—paradise isn&#39;t just made up imagination. Siddhartha Gautama proved that human being can become a Buddha.</p>
IEEE Spectrum<p>Estonian engineers found that 15-year-old smartphones, when hacked to work together as a single self-organized unit, can handle many such tasks, including image recognition, with unexpected ease. How did they turn a bunch of old phones into a mini datacenter? <a href="https://spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-data-centers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">spectrum.ieee.org/smartphone-d</span><span class="invisible">ata-centers?utm_source=mastodon&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline</span></a></p>
Ara@Ungeekiness<p>Almost all <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/religions" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>religions</span></a> are built on <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/faith" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>faith</span></a>—rather &#39;blind&#39; faith it would seem. But in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Buddhism" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Buddhism</span></a> emphasis is laid on &#39;seeing&#39;, knowing, understanding, and not on faith, or belief. … However you put it, faith or belief as understood by most religions has little to do with Buddhism. -What the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Buddha" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Buddha</span></a> taught by <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WalpolaRahula" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WalpolaRahula</span></a></p>
European Commission<p>📱 Built to last</p><p>Your new smartphone or tablet must last longer, be easier to fix, and use less energy.</p><p>As new EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling laws have entered into force, here’s what changes:</p><p>🔧 Easier to repair – spare parts for at least 7 years<br>💧 More durable against drops, water, dust<br>💡 Labelled for energy use, battery life, durability<br>💶 €20 billion savings for consumers by 2030<br>🌱 Using 1/3 less energy vs. doing nothing</p><p>Smart rules. Smart savings. All win.</p><p>ℹ️ <a href="https://europa.eu/!vwY9Nn" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">europa.eu/!vwY9Nn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
NGI Zero open source funding<p>Are you a Free Software developer trying to access hardware or software features under Article 6 of the Digital Markets Act <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DMA</span></a> ? <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fsfe" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fsfe</span></a></span> would like to hear from you. Share your experience about how gatekeepers are handling your interoperability request with the Free Software Foundation Europe. </p><p>The FSFE’s Interoperability Survey aims to collect structured feedback from <a href="https://mastodon.xyz/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> developers about their experience requesting interoperability </p><p>Read more &amp; link to the survey: <a href="https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/interop-survey" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">fsfe.org/activities/deviceneut</span><span class="invisible">rality/interop-survey</span></a></p>
casey (pattable)<p>thanks everyone who helped make the new <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> release! they just get better and better every time. </p><p>i continue to be more and more hopeful that we will deliver on our mission to build a production ready OS, made by and for the community that continue to contribute (whether through code, reports, debugging, or donations).</p><p>we are not stopping with systemd... next up will be factory reset support, update rollbacks, EFI on qualcomm phones, immutability, and huge tooling improvements </p><p>embedded edition is also on my mind, we need better ways to build and maintain embedded systems and we absolutely have the raw ingredients </p><p><a href="https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/22/v25.06-release/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/</span><span class="invisible">22/v25.06-release/</span></a></p>
DeltaTouch<p>Today at DIFF in Freiburg: DeltaTouch running on PostmarketOS on a Steam Deck (with a Win7 theme), owned by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@ell1e" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ell1e</span></a></span> :awesome:</p><p><a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DeltaTouch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeltaTouch</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/DeltaChat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeltaChat</span></a> <a href="https://social.tchncs.de/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a></p>
Federico Izzo<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@phosh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>phosh</span></a></span> I set up pmOS v24.12 with phosh 0.45 on a 7 inch x86 laptop for a friend, in place of Ubuntu 25.04 he was using.<br>He was really impressed with the usability on such small device, as the UI can be easily scaled to be comfortable on a small screen (We selected 150% for a 7in 1080p display)<br><a href="https://chaos.social/tags/phosh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phosh</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/postmarketos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketos</span></a></p>
Ara@Ungeekiness<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Borderlands2" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Borderlands2</span></a> in @steam <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/49520/Borderlands_2/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">store.steampowered.com/app/495</span><span class="invisible">20/Borderlands_2/</span></a> I didn&#39;t really go through issues.<br />But whatever it is, user pay for the game. And company toc changed it to allow steal all user data.<br />If it was released with free. Sure, it might be.</p><p>Don&#39;t try to defend bad practice company plz.</p>
postmarketOS<p>In a breaking news report, we have just learnt that all postmarketOS images installed this June will make the user 10% more queer, stacking for up to a 500% bonus!</p><p>Happy pride month ya'll!</p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/pride" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pride</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/AlsoGivesYouPlus2RizzAgainstFediBeings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlsoGivesYouPlus2RizzAgainstFediBeings</span></a> <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/WeDontMakeTheRules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WeDontMakeTheRules</span></a></p>
casey (pattable)<p>blown away by the amount of work going on in <a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/tags/postmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>postmarketOS</span></a> (as i am every time we release a new monthly update post), it's so humbling to see so many people with so many different interests and areas of expertise coming together to build something awesome</p><p>what are you waiting for? grab a device and get hacking :D</p><p><a href="https://postmarketos.org/contribute/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">postmarketos.org/contribute/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://social.treehouse.systems/@postmarketOS/114615433906900030" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">social.treehouse.systems/@post</span><span class="invisible">marketOS/114615433906900030</span></a></p>
Andrew Graves :arch: :linux:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>neil</span></a></span> <br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@postmarketOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>postmarketOS</span></a></span> </p><p>Just used the Web flasher for the first time and it worked pretty much flawlessly! Using a <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/OnePlus6T" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OnePlus6T</span></a> :)</p><p>(Private Chromium/Brave session did not work though)</p><p>It's a very convenient way to update/flash your phone and I love that I can run <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/docker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>docker</span></a> containers in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/PostmarketOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PostmarketOS</span></a> now!</p><p>EDIT: Added screenshot</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/android" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>android</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/linuxmobile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxmobile</span></a></p>
postmarketOS<p>Do you want to get involved in postmarketOS but don't know where to start? Check out our new contribute page! We are not only interested in people who want to play around with APKBUILDs and hacking on the Linux kernel, but also have plenty of things in there that don't require programming knowledge such as becoming part of the Testing Team, reporting issues, writing documentation and just helping out other people! ✨</p><p><a href="https://postmarketos.org/contribute/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">postmarketos.org/contribute/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
postmarketOS (old account)<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@osuosl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>osuosl</span></a></span> 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 <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@alpinelinux" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alpinelinux</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://gts.chimera-linux.org/@chimera" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chimera</span></a></span> , <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://framapiaf.org/@debian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>debian</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@fdroidorg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fdroidorg</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@gentoo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gentoo</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://floss.social/@gnome" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gnome</span></a></span>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@LineageOS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>LineageOS</span></a></span>, <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/ReplicantOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReplicantOS</span></a>, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>torproject</span></a></span>. Now their future is in jeopardy 😢 </p><p>We usually don't ask this, but please boost for reach, this is important infrastructure for so many FLOSS projects! :boostRequest: </p><p><a href="https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/osuosl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>osuosl</span></a></p>
Ara@Ungeekiness<p><a href="https://reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/comments/1kayytc/what_is_it_with_people_buying_laptops_first_then/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reddit.com/r/GamingLaptops/com</span><span class="invisible">ments/1kayytc/what_is_it_with_people_buying_laptops_first_then/</span></a> You can ask your <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/friend" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>friend</span></a>(for advice) before spent $1,200. If you don&#39;t have a friend, there has a internet. Like <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/reddit" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>reddit</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/quora" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>quora</span></a> or other websites(or even <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/twitter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>twitter</span></a>) that you can ask about.<br />Fyi, it is possible that spent $300-600 for just playing <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/gtaV" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gtaV</span></a>.</p>
Summer Jo :neocat_melt_2: :v_enby: ☀️<p>The EU is introducing an energy label for phones, together with mandatory requirements for phones sold in the EU;</p><p>- 5 years of software updates (AFTER they stop selling the device in the EU)</p><p>- providing important hardware parts (during sale and for 7 years after), including free software (if needed), to every repair shop, within 5-10 business days</p><p>- batteries have to make 800 charging cycles and still be above 80% original capacity</p><p>And on top of that, phones and tablets need this energy label (which also includes a fall damage durability and repairability score), and abide by the above requirements, from 20 June 2025.</p><p>(<a href="https://energy-efficient-products.ec.europa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">energy-efficient-products.ec.e</span><span class="invisible">uropa.eu/product-list/smartphones-and-tablets_en</span></a>)</p>
Ara@Ungeekiness<p>&#39;Wow...wows!<br />Nowadays, everyone is sooo rich that everyone suggest to <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/physically" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>physically</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/drilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drilling</span></a>, shredding the hard disk.<br />I&#39;m not rich so I had to completely erase the data before selling.&#39; - how to make <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/unrecoverable" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>unrecoverable</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hdd" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>hdd</span></a> <a href="https://ungeekiness.com/2018/06/answer-not-physically-destroy-hdd-for.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ungeekiness.com/2018/06/answer</span><span class="invisible">-not-physically-destroy-hdd-for.html</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/misunderstandingIT" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>misunderstandingIT</span></a></p>
servus.at<p>Chaline Bang: permacomputing &amp; postmarketOS residency!</p><p>&gt;If my phone is so smart, why am I only doing dumb stuff with it?</p><p>Chaline Bang is having a short residency in servus.at from 23.04.2025 to 30.04.2025. As part of her ongoing research, she will explore the practice of permacomputing and how to reappropriate a smartphone device with PostmarketOS. Her residency will be accompanied with 2 events open to the public.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://post.lurk.org/@chalinebang" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chalinebang</span></a></span></p>