mastodon 4.7.3Maintainer of Alacritty and the Catacomb Linux Mobile project
Yesterday I fixed the Fairphone 5 audio on my Archlinux system, just for myself (afaik I'm the only user of my FP5 stuff).
Within that day, @wrenix@social.chaos.fyi submitted a pmOS patch and 3 separate people already approved it (with Luca not even being one of them).
@FestplattenSchnitzel@social.anoxinon.de even ported the fix to the FP4 and tested it.
PostmarketOS might not be able to win me over from Arch with their software, but the community they managed to build is impressive.
Thanks to the great work done by @wrenix@social.chaos.fyi, @valpackett@social.treehouse.systems, and many others (certainly not me), I've finally gotten calls working on my Fairphone 5.
While there's some kinks left to be ironed out, call quality is excellent out of the box (certainly better than my PinePhone (Pro)).
I've pushed a `linux-sc7280-calls` kernel to my arch repo for anyone who wants to try it. The following PR discussion should help set it all up:
Apparently the Fairphone 5 microphone not working with automatic wireguard call profile switching was just a race condition with q6voiced:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/q6voiced/-/work_items/3
This means I now have calls working at a usable level with great quality on the Fairphone 5.
Since ArchLinux users must love the bleeding edge, I'm shipping this as default with my packages, so it should work out of the box going forward:
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/catacomb_packages/commit/3150b440e4050516b180a17ce2b8244198e5c301
Just saw that they open sourced warp (the terminal that turned into LLM slop) and decided to look at some of the remaining terminal emulation pieces.
There's some *interesting* similarities in the terminal code I've looked at so far:
Alacritty:
https://github.com/alacritty/vte/blob/master/src/ansi.rs#L819
Interesting how quickly an Apache (and in parts MIT) license can turn into AGPL.
Took me a bit of time (and ~$15 worth of Flathub CI costs) to figure out, but a Flatpak of Kumo with Servo support is now available:
https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.catacombing.kumo
Don't use Flatpak myself, but I'm kinda curious if Servo works with the Flatpak.
ArchLinux 7.0.0, now available at a Fairphone 5 near you.
Over a year ago I tried adding Servo support to my browser and failed. A month ago I tried again, but some crucial things were still missing upstream.
After spending the weekend adding touch context menu support to Servo, I finally managed to get it in a spot where I'm willing to let other people try.
It's not quite ready for release yet, but if testing reveals no issues, I'll hopefully be able to publish a new version in the coming weeks.
A little preview of the multi-engine behavior in Kumo:
To quickly try out a website in a different engine, you can just reload it in WebKit/Servo through the context menu.
Kumo will remember which engine was last used for a domain and use that engine for all new tabs for that domain going forward. That way if you're interested in a new browser engine, you can transition one website at a time, rather than requiring a complete browser change.
Little bit of a #Rust rant:
The fact that the best way to find out what a feature flag does, is looking at the library's source Cargo.toml and hoping they've documented the features, is insane.
The comments on features should be standardized, enforced with a cargo warning, then tools like crates.rs can pull and document them automatically.
Kumo 1.8.0 automatically unloads inactive tabs, to preserve resources and enhance initial loading speed.
Epitaph 1.3.0 improves FP5 GPS support and ignores single-tap drawer expansion during calls:
Kumo 1.8.1 fixes a couple bugs that probably went unnoticed by everyone but me. Baby steps.
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/kumo/log/v1.8.1
Maybe it's time to get calls working on my Fairphone 5…
Just released a new version of Catacomb & Epitaph.
Catacomb's main changes are the automatic calculation of a device's scale and the ability to define deadzones for devices with rounded corners and camera cutouts.
Epitaph now allows full configuration of its modules based on device orientation, which should also help with devices that have cutouts.
Charon 1.7.0 brings idle inhibition while the GPS is locked and fixes issues with startup on some compositors:
https://git.sr.ht/~undeadleech/charon/refs/v1.7.0
First time doing a release through SourceHut, seems like I should put the changelog in the tag's message.
@Oleksii@social.linux.pizza You need to enable either raw or nmea GPS mode (both are supported, but FP5 only does nmea for example):
mmcli -m any --location-enable-gps-nmea
mmcli -m any --location-enable-gps-raw
Then you can set the polling rate to whatever you want:
# This sets polling rate to every 10s.
mmcli -m any --location-set-gps-refresh-rate 10
Aevum 2.3.1 uses the RTC offset to schedule alarms on systems with read-only RTCs. This finally fixes the last remaining reason I had to use the PinePhone Pro over the Fairphone 5.
@allpurposemat@mastodon.gamedev.place I'm testing with my own map app and my NMEA location positioning has been very accurate, even inside my apartment.
I would recommend just checking with mmcli -m any --location-get and trying to parse the NMEA GPS data by hand. If that gets you accurate data, it should just be a matter of finding an app that works for you.
Also make sure NMEA is actually enabled with --location-status. I could imagine that just 3gpp could be quite inaccurate, which is the default.