#Introduction - A new home for longer mountain ramblings & tech dabbling!

After years on a managed Mastodon instance, I've finally jumped into the #selfhosted world! Say hello to my new personal #ActivityPub instance, powered by #GoToSocial from home.

While I test the waters here (and learn all the complexities of managing self-hosting!), this space will be for the longer-form, deeper-dive content:

1. Extended mountain trip reports with more photos.

2. Ramblings on my rather amateur adventures in #technology, #landscapephotography, #lora mesh networks, #degoogling efforts, and #linuxphone solutions.

Think of it as my digital base camp. If you're a mountain person who loves tech (or a tech person who loves mountains), we probably have things in common. Boosts and introductions are welcome!

Jolla Is Creating the Most Powerful Linux Smart Phone - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TLYLvGZUmA

#jollaphone #linuxphone #opensource

#Introduction - A new home for longer mountain ramblings & tech dabbling!

After years on a managed Mastodon instance, I've finally jumped into the #selfhosted world! Say hello to my new personal #ActivityPub instance, powered by #GoToSocial from home.

While I test the waters here (and learn all the complexities of managing self-hosting!), this space will be for the longer-form, deeper-dive content:

1. Extended mountain trip reports with more photos.

2. Ramblings on my rather amateur adventures in #technology, #landscapephotography, #lora mesh networks, #degoogling efforts, and #linuxphone solutions.

Think of it as my digital base camp. If you're a mountain person who loves tech (or a tech person who loves mountains), we probably have things in common. Boosts and introductions are welcome!

Estan acceptant 2.000 reserves més per la segona tungada i quan hi arribin, ja estarà, tancaran la posibilitat de fer-ne més.
En total, amb els 2.000 de la primera tungada i els 1.247 de la segona, hi ha 3.247 reserves fetes (i pujant).

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

#LinuxPhone

El nou Jolla Linux Phone es fabricarà perquè l'objectiu mínim necessari de 2.000 reserves s'ha superat amb escreix (2.602 reserves ja).
Aquest mòbil no tindrà el català de fàbrica però es podrà instal·lar a voluntat. Hi ha un plataforma de traducció que està ara mateix al 63%, els ajudem? 💪

https://translate.sailfishos.org/ca/

#LinuxPhone #SailfishOS #català

Habemus Jolla Linux Phone!

#LinuxPhone #dit

Ahir a les 12:18 hi havia fetes 1.193 reserves (https://mastodont.cat/@spla/115672343675076975). Avui a la mateixa hora i minut, 1.982.
789 reserves en 24 hores, 32,875 reserves per hora. 👏

#LinuxPhone #dit

1.900!
(ostres, semblo un comercial 😅).
https://mastodont.cat/@spla/115672343675076975

#LinuxPhone #dit

1.796 ja! 👏
Ara mateix només falten 204 reserves per arribar a 2.000 per a que començi la producció del nou Jolla Linux Phone.

https://mastodont.cat/@spla/115672343675076975

#LinuxPhone #dit

Vols un mòbil Linux? si arriben a 2.000 reserves abans del 4 de gener, Jolla Linux Phone serà una realitat. Ja s'han fet 1.193 reserves 💪

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-preorder

#LinuxPhone #dit

Progress after hours of compiling a mainline kernel for #postmarketOS on OnePlus N100 #LinuxPhone at @cccac mainlining night.
The great previous work of @ichernev described in his blog: https://mainlining.dev/category/mainlining-journey/billie2/
may get merged into pmaports:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/7300

Progress after hours of compiling a mainline kernel for #postmarketOS on OnePlus N100 #LinuxPhone at @cccac mainlining night.
The great previous work of @ichernev described in his blog: https://mainlining.dev/category/mainlining-journey/billie2/
may get merged into pmaports:
https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/7300

Okay. I have a month to pick out a new phone before I can no longer cancel my pre-ordered Light Phone 3. I really like my Light Phone 2, but living without a camera has been a little too limiting, and the folks in my life would really appreciate me at least getting that capability back. I am still bitter about losing the headphone jack, though.

But I'm starting to wonder if the issue isn't that smart phones do too much, and more just that smart phones are not something I can control. Plus, they all look boring.

There aren't a lot of open source phones out there that are super compelling, but if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations, or just weird niche mobile devices, I'd love to see them.

Kicking things off, I came very close to going even more minimal than the Light Phone when I found Sky's Edge Rotary Phone. I wanted this thing so bad, but folks in my life vetoed going that low-function pretty hard.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/10/the-open-source-rotary-cell-phone-two-years-later/

#Mobile #opensource #smartphone #lightphone #minimalphone #linuxphone #linux #weirdphones

📱 Mobian Trixie Officially Released with Broader Device Support / @linuxiac

｢ Over two years in development, this release brings an updated base aligned with Debian 13, Phosh 46.0 (a mobile user interface for Linux phones), and Plasma Mobile 6.3 desktop environments, as well as a Linux kernel 6.12 for most supported devices. The Librem 5 remains on kernel 6.6 for now ｣

https://linuxiac.com/mobian-trixie-officially-released-with-broader-device-support/

#mobian #mobianos #debian #linuxphone

I'm aware the PinePhone exists, but absolutely no one seems excited by it. If you're excited by it, I'd love to know why, though!

#linuxPhone #opensource #PinePhone

Okay. I have a month to pick out a new phone before I can no longer cancel my pre-ordered Light Phone 3. I really like my Light Phone 2, but living without a camera has been a little too limiting, and the folks in my life would really appreciate me at least getting that capability back. I am still bitter about losing the headphone jack, though.

But I'm starting to wonder if the issue isn't that smart phones do too much, and more just that smart phones are not something I can control. Plus, they all look boring.

There aren't a lot of open source phones out there that are super compelling, but if anyone has any thoughts or recommendations, or just weird niche mobile devices, I'd love to see them.

Kicking things off, I came very close to going even more minimal than the Light Phone when I found Sky's Edge Rotary Phone. I wanted this thing so bad, but folks in my life vetoed going that low-function pretty hard.

https://hackaday.com/2022/09/10/the-open-source-rotary-cell-phone-two-years-later/

#Mobile #opensource #smartphone #lightphone #minimalphone #linuxphone #linux #weirdphones

Is anyone using any #linuxphone as their only phone? Is it usable now?

#Linux

Revisiting SailfishOS – September 2025 Thoughts / Nick Schmidt

https://geekyschmidt.com/post/sailfishos-sept25/

#SailfishOS #linuxphone #opensource

Is anyone using any #linuxphone as their only phone? Is it usable now?

#Linux

Some people on activitypub seemed a bit interested in mobile linux, so I decided to share a bit more of my experience on here. I will break it up into different posts covering different aspects.

I have been using a PinePhone 1.2b (3GB of RAM, 32GB eMMC storage) as my daily driver for roughly four years now. That may sound impressive, but I only really use a phone so people can reach me, for music on the go, and for a browser in a pinch. I'm not on my phone all that often.

PinePhone: https://pine64.org/devices/pinephone/

Currently, I have Mobian (based on Debian) Trixie installed on the internal eMMC storage and a 512GB microSD card mounted at /home, both utilizing full-disk encryption, for plenty of storage for my use-case. I'm using the Phosh interface, since it is more stable in my experience than plasma mobile currently. I also mostly use GTK software since they tend to integrate better with Phosh. I do not have cellular service on it, I even have the entire cellular modem disabled via the hardware dipswitch on the back currently.

Mobian: https://mobian-project.org/
Phosh: https://phosh.mobi/

#mobian#debian#linux#mobilelinux#pinephone#linuxphone#phosh