I wonder how much additional work would be necessary to actually support A64, too.

But for now this is definitely good news to PineCube hackers/users ;-)

A Pixel 3a may be a good choice. It's older, but not huge—and it's very well-supported in Ubuntu Touch (and Droidian, both use Halium/libhybris to re-use the Android kernel drivers), and also in postmarketOS (mainline Linux 6.9.3 as of this message).

On postmarketOS, camera support is not fully there—the front camera is somewhat supported. Also, Wi-Fi is still a bit annoying, calls only work with headset on postmarketOS, so I would say: Use Ubuntu Touch or Droidian for now, and maybe move on to postmarketOS once it's a bit more solid.

No, it's just that when you use a mainline kernel, you're just not reusing all the Android (often user-space) drivers that make cameras work on Android and due to that stuff, starting from drivers for the SoC camera interface to the camera sensor have to be re-implemented. Whether you are on glibc (e.g., on Debian/Mobian) or musl/Alpine does not really matter.

Also, Camera APIs and the whole "desktop Linux" camera stack (think of things like debayering, white-balance) is nowhere near as developed as what Android has (and that, IUC, Ubuntu Touch can reuse on Halium by plumbing things together).

It's not a font ... and it says LINMOB (for LINux on MOBile).

I drew it in GIMP ages ago (15 years maybe?); and did not have the time to come up with a new logo since. (I am not super happy with it myself - but it's not a priority, there's way more important stuff I don't have time for).

That said: Contributions welcome! (at https://framagit.org/linmob/linmob.frama.io)

Depends, guessing from this conversation I'd assume there's currently nothing to thank for.

And because of that: If you like Phosh, consider giving back:

• https://liberapay.com/Phosh/ and
• https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/donations/ are simple ways to do so :-)

See https://linuxphoneapps.org/... - both Confy and Kongress are decent. And then there's a relict from N900 times: https://flathub.org/...

This is great, even if at least one app in that collection is only available for x86_64, which makes it hard to actually run on a phone ;-) They also updated the Device Support section of metainfo guidelines: https://docs.flathub.org/... . Looks like some apps on the KDE side still need proper metainfo to show up: https://invent.kde.org/...

It's pretty much "real". You can install every package in the repos via apt, and they should work. Caveats can apply with regards to stuff that needs extra adjustment for accelerated graphics or new kernel features.

It's somewhat SoC dependent, but the actual feature support depends on auxiliary chips. Of the well-supported phones, only the Shift6mq supports it in hardware - software support on mainline is not there yet though. The Fairphones 4 and 5 also have the feature. I have the 5, and display out works with postmarketOS, but audio support is still lacking, and USB peripherals (e.g., keyboard, mouse) are not supported.

Here's a list of more devices: https://www.uperfectmonitor.com/...

That said, there are other ways like DisplayLink and or GUD that may enable you to connect a display to a OnePlus 6 or PocoF1 anyway, some people have done it (and left video evidence on social media or YouTube. It definitely requires a customized kernel, and unfortunately, AFAIK the efforts have not been documented/shared (kernel config and necessary packages).

This may seem odd, but from a person that has a two-digit amount of phones: You know that it's possible two own more than one phone at a time, e.g., a Linux Phone and a Game Phone? ;-)

Just look at https://devices.ubuntu-touch.io/

I have a Pixel 3a and it's a really great port.

Yeah man, I think the article I initially read about PP Mobian situation was this one here just for reference if I am even remembering right – https://blog.mobian-project.org/...

Someone stepped up (see https://blog.mobian.org/... and afaik a-wai also mentioned this at fosdem (https://fosdem.org/...), also long standing issues like the out-of-tree-WiFi/BT driver are being worked on currently.

+1 for Gapless. My library is not nearly as large, but it's still plenty quick (no noticeable delay) with my 1 digit gigabytes library and IMHO the best native feeling media player on Phosh/GNOME Mobile.

It also does the Album -> Artist -> Song thing (which made me notice that I still have not fixed every error in metadata I managed to add to a part of my Library by blindly applying musicbraiz suggestions via Tagger, but that's just a me thing).

This sounds more like a network problem, maybe something on your end or that one of the repos was temporarily unreachable (usually it's the postmarketOS repo for me in such situations). I recommend running sudo apk update in situations like this and reading through the output. Depending on which repo is unreachable (= if it's one of the alpine repos) it may be a better idea to delay upgrading.

It definitely has nothing to do with the device being dropped from main to community — both categories mean that the device is served by stable.

Hope this helps!

Generally yes, but I am just a dumb tech blogger, so what do I know 😀 . I checked the issue tracker, and this issue seems related - I also see that crash, and it might extend beyond upgrades and thus be the source of what you are seeing. If you also see that crash of that service, maybe just upvote the existing issue first or if you can chime in/help out, do that before opening a potential duplicate :-)

I recommend trying to use KDE Connect (or scp, rsync ... another network based way) to send the screenshot from the phone to your other computer instead.

MTP/other file transfer protocols do not (yet?) work with mobile Linux, so this failure is to be expected. It only shows up for connection, because if your device ran Android, it would be an option — AFAIK, Plasma acts this way because of the USB ID of the device.

Also, regarding your main issue: While you can report this to Mozilla, please be aware that Firefox is being "patched" to better work on mobile by https://gitlab.com/.... I suggest you to install the latest, not yet in postmarketOS 23.12 mobile-config-firefox package from edge first by running:

sudo apk del mobile-config-firefox
sudo apk add mobile-config-firefox --repository http://mirror.postmarketos.org/postmarketos/master

While it may not fix every issue possible, it should improve the experience.

I don't think reporting the USB ID thing to Plasma is useful and will go far - for 99% of users (that use some kind of Android/AOSP) the modus operandi is fine and helpful. With many Android devices and OSes requiring you to do something on the device after plugging it in, testing does not seem to be feasible to me.

There's no need to add the edge repo, as the latest release of mobile-config-firefox should be in v23.12 by now (it's been updated there since my last post). The command I posted does not add the repo, but only uses it for the one package without adding the repo permanently.

Honestly - using Sxmo on a PinePhone Pro is about as hard-core as you can go beyong building your own thing from scratch.

Ubuntu Touch on Pixel 3a, or Sailfish X on a supported device or a Librem 5 with PureOS even is a lot less geeky and more approachable thing.

If you like a headphone jack, and the 6 (no T) is also available in your region, I would go with it instead. Battery life should be fine, unless you leave battery hogging apps running all the time. My 6 definitely lasts from 7 a.m. (when I disconnect it) until the next morning when I forget to plug it back in - and that's with a Matrix account running in the background in Chats/chatty.

I use Evolution for email (which ... well, is somewhat doable with scale-to-fit), and it notifies me about contact birthdays.