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The thirty-fourth edition of my weekly collection of Linux Phone news (@PINE64 #PinePhone, @purism #Librem5 and such), #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/2021/02/21/linbits33-weekly-linux-phone-news-week7.html

Megapixels scans QR code, Plasma 5.21, the new default PinePhone OS and more!

#LinuxPhones

What and Who is @mobian ? Blog post out at https://blog.mobian-project.org/posts/2021/02/18/what_is_mobian/

Today we can make public a development @opensuse
image for the @PINE64 #Pinephone with the @kde Plasma Mobile desktop environment 😀 https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/ARM:/Factory:/Contrib:/PinePhone/images/

We have a tiny fraction of Signal's or Whatsapp resources, only started many years later and have to deal with many different e-mails server behaviors. Yet we are closing the gaps. How? One reason is that we adopted @rustlang@twitter.com - and here is some genesis: https://delta.chat/en/2019-05-08-xyiv#the-coming-delta-chat-rustocalypse

Today marks the end of #PinePhone Community Editions.
Thank you to
@ubports,
@postmarketOS,
@manjarolinux,
@kde and @mobian for making it possible. And thank you to all of you who picked up a CE and supported the mobile Linux cause!

BLOG: https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/02/the-end-of-community-editions/

I seem to be in the minority here but a web page should be able to load its content without needing JavaScript. If your page only loads an empty wireframe without JavaScript, you’ve failed at the web. Bare minimum, load the fucking content. If it’s being pulled dynamically, do that server side and then generate a damn page.

December News Update!

- RK3366 SBCs are coming!
- 2020 in review
- #Pinephone and #Pinetime together
- #Pinephone keyboard for developers
- #PinebookPro back in March!
- #PineCube case
- #Pinecil and Docking Deck launch reception

and more...

https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/15/december-update-the-longest-one-yet/

Important decision for @kde @plasmamobile project

https://www.plasma-mobile.org/2020/12/14/plasma-mobile-technical-debt.html

If you care enough about privacy to require full disk encryption, we're now providing an on-device installer image which enables FDE on the #PinePhone: https://images.mobian-project.org/pinephone/installer/

Flash it to an SD or the internal eMMC and follow the instructions :)

Hello fellow mobianistas, hope you are still enjoying your devices. We are working hard to improve our installer to be able to properly encrypt your disks.

Coming up in 2021: more ways to buy Pine64 products, and get support.

https://www.pine64.org/2020/12/02/pine-store-community-pricing-online-retail-stores/

PSA: due to a software issue, shipping charges were incorrectly applied to early KDE CE pre-orders.
Affected orders: #159750 to #159962

You will be refunded and asked to re-order. This will NOT affect shipping date granted you pre-order again in few days.

Our apologies.

BTW: I called my brother today using my @UBports CE #PinePhone running @mobian. Call quality has really improved, we talked for 35 minutes without issues.

I totally agree with this blog post:
https://quickfix.es/2020/11/missing-the-point-pinephone-kde-community-edition/

KDE and @PINE64 Introduce the PinePhone - KDE Community edition.

Experience the future of KDE's open mobile platform here:

https://kde.org/announcements/pinephone-plasma-mobile-edition/

In today's November Blog Update:

- @kde Community Edition #PinePhone coming December 1st

- RK3566 announced as one of our next generation platforms

- #PinebookPro Docking Deck

- #Pinecil on sale within the next month

- Enough other announcements to write a novel about... luckily Lukasz already did that for me. :)

https://www.pine64.org/2020/11/15/november-update-kde-pinephone-ce-and-a-peek-into-the-future/