Alright, it's time to finally start using this account.

For those that are unaware, we moved from Fosstodon to TH.S on April 26, 2025 and we haven't posted anything on this account since then.. until now.

A quick introduction, we're the maintainer of an Arch-based distribution for #PinePhone, #PinePhonePro and #PineTab2 and our latest release (at the time of this toot) was in December last year (it's been that long, huh)

This account will be used to post updates and news about that distribution.

Thanks treehouse.systems team for letting us in. 😎

📢 Good news, community!

Your response to the new Liberux NEXX model has been amazing 🙌
So we’re making it real:
🗓️ This Monday, June 9 at 15:00 UTC+0, the new entry-level version will go live.

🔧 LTE · 128 GB eMMC · 16 GB RAM
💶 Price: €890

It will be available on the crowdfunding page, alongside the current version:
👉 https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3

Thank you for helping us build meaningful open hardware.
See you on Monday! 💬

#LinuxPhones #LiberuxNEXX #liberux #nexx

The port of Sailfish for the OnePlus 6 has the best performance out of all the ports currently imo. I recommend giving it a try.

https://verdanditeam.com/device/enchilada

#oneplus6 #pixel3a #mobilelinux #sailfishos

@nytpu of fire? XD

@Luigi311 we haven't seen the cooling solution for the device yet, so we'll wait and see.

#UbuntuTouch #OTA9 is now available!
It brings VoLTE support on more carriers, newer version of Waydroid , and more. Check our blog post about this release:
https://ubports.com/blog/ubports-blogs-noticias-1/post/ubuntu-touch-ota-9-focal-release-3962

@pericus @Luigi311 @Liberux @BUF0 That would be pretty cool, unfortunately I'm waterlogged here in New Zealand.

I should be coming to FOSDEM next year, so if you are interested in having a chat there that would be awesome.

I guess it wouldn't be fair if I didn't introduce myself as well.
My name is Camden, I am a student from New Zealand currently studying my bachelor degree in computer science (I'm sure that will be useful once I finish, sarcasm).

I got into computers very young at 7 where'd I'd mostly play around with old Windows XP computers and eventually discovered Linux when I set up Crouton on my Chromebook. I am also currently the community manager for the Pine64 Community (not PineStore the company), I do the social media stuff, write the community updates and interact with the community.

@pericus @Luigi311 @Liberux @BUF0 Hi Pedro, it's nice to meet you :-)
I love the IBM computer you have in the back.

Hope we can get along.

@Luigi311 I did a bit of digging and ...

I spread misinformation. I would like to apologize publicly for spreading this misinformation. These are real people with a real project to make a real phone.

They are not part of any fraud case, they are members of our mobile Linux community.

I have posted an image of the original post. I will not hide the fact that I made a grave mistake here and I am very sorry to the folks over at @Liberux I should know better as a representative.

@dcz I was able to determine that the people from this photo are real. The images seem to have a green screen behind them.

https://social.treehouse.systems/@Liberux@mastodon.social/114573966341012444

Pictured: Pedro and Carlos(?)

Still not sure about the hardware though, as the Rockchip SOC doesn't seem like a good fit for a phone form factor (unless they bin it like the one in the PinePhone Pro).

@Luigi311 I did a bit of digging and ...

I spread misinformation. I would like to apologize publicly for spreading this misinformation. These are real people with a real project to make a real phone.

They are not part of any fraud case, they are members of our mobile Linux community.

I have posted an image of the original post. I will not hide the fact that I made a grave mistake here and I am very sorry to the folks over at @Liberux I should know better as a representative.

@3cats Thank you!

I recently received my #pine64 #pinetabv. Going to make a couple of videos on it. I want to publish a tutorial for batch 1 owners on flashing the new test firmware as it requires a new uboot image to be flashed onto the SPI chip.

One major thing I've noticed is that the SOC is highly dependent on the GPU. It cannot handle rendering using software as the CPU is very weak. It is very usable when the desktop is accelerated, web browsing is snappy.

I didn't manage to get the cameras to work, I noticed that there are some cobbled together scripts to get them to work, but that was unsuccessful. I did get display out to work fine though, as seen in the image.

@hellomiakoda The Ubuntu Touch port is being done by Furilabs too. As I said there is no community support.

@hellomiakoda Same if it works for you, that's cool. I'm just very weary of the FLX1 as a product because of how dependent it is on the company that is making it.

There is no community support for this device, so you're tied to their success for software updates.

@hellomiakoda I mean, depending on Halium is a lot worse and unsustainable for the device as it ages and what's the point of wanting to move from Android if you're just going to run Android apps on it in the end?

@hellomiakoda You could have also bought a second hand Android phone to put Linux on for less than half the price of the FLX1, and it runs mainline instead of depending on Halium.

@3cats Much ghosting on that eink display?