#NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 90. Properly populating and formatting the video description and metadata fields in the user interface.

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1323&list=newpipe

"This week in Plasma" brings the news that Discover's list views can now be navigated with the keyboard, and that we met another accessibility standard by improving the readability of graph axis labels, as well as of selected items in KRunner and Discover, among many other things.

https://blogs.kde.org/2025/06/21/this-week-in-plasma-plasma-6.4-has-arrived/

#plasma6 #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #desktop

@kde@lemmy.kde.social

State events can be informative and spammy at the same time. That's why I made them now collapsed by default in #fluffychat

#matrix

And as always a shameless plug to @kde Itinerary for helping me manage all my train tickets, event and hotel registration :) It's even open source 😜 https://apps.kde.org/itinerary/

@erebion Welcome to before 2013/2014, when Maemo was made (and things were uploaded somewhere). Back then (pre-Snowden) https wasn't nearly as widespread. I would thus not assume links are malicious for being plain http or ftp, because back in the stone-age, certs where expensive (and CPUs were a lot weaker).

Native apps on #LinuxMobile are getting better at a good pace. But we need better devices that run mainline kernels and have been designed from the beginning to respect users' freedom (as far as feasible).

So yes, I am backing the #LiberuxNexx crowdfunding campaign!

As of now, there are just 12 days left but only 6% of their campaign goal have been reached. I hope more people will make up their minds (and purses):

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/liberux-nexx--3#/

FuriOS 13.1.0 includes support for installing apps from the OpenStore (https://open-store.io/), changing encryption password, installation of Ubuntu Touch dual boot and Android quick settings. This release also fixes some GPU crashes, modem crashes, MMS issues and fingerprint stability improvements and kernel updates to improve overall system stability and performance.

For more information see https://furilabs.com/update-13-1-0/

#flx1 #furios #furilabs #FuriPhoneFLX1 #LinuxOnMobile

A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!

#205 Loading Films
https://thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/06/twig-205

#GNOME #TWIG

Bento is a DIY portable PC that stuffs the guts of a Steam Deck into one compartment of a box, leaving room for USB hubs, chargers, and other peripherals in another. A keyboard becomes the lid, and for a display you can plug in a monitor or AR glasses. https://github.com/lunchbox-computer/bento #Bento #SteamDeck #MiniPC

🥳 #FluffyChat 2.0.0 is released — now powered by Vodozemac!Together with the brand-new Matrix Dart SDK 1.0.0, which also uses Vodozemac — the modern encryption library for Matrix written in Rust.

https://ko-fi.com/Post/FluffyChat-2-0-0-has-been-released-with-Vodozem-L3L01GRELK

#matrix #encryption

Break Up Big Tech: Civil Society Declaration

https://peoplevsbig.tech/break-up-big-tech-civil-society-declaration/

I didn’t plan to write about Wayland yet. But Xorg is dying — not eventually, but now. GNOME’s dropping X11 support. RHEL already removed it. Ubuntu and Fedora are next. And if you rely on accessibility, you don’t get to wait this one out.
So here’s Post 4 of I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back.
I’m using Wayland now. Primarily. Not because I love it. Because the fallback is disappearing, and I want to be there helping fix what comes next. GNOME with Orca actually works. KDE and COSMIC are making progress. I’ve talked to the people involved. They care.
But a lot is broken.
MATE — the desktop most blind users preferred — isn’t on Wayland.
ocrdesktop doesn’t work. xdotool is gone.
wlroots compositors still don’t reliably support Orca’s keybindings, especially on laptops.
This isn’t GNOME’s fault. They’re the only reason accessibility on Wayland works at all.
But the old excuses are gone. “Just use Xorg” isn’t going to be an option much longer.
So yeah. I’m a Wayland shill now. Because I’m using it. Because I have to.
And I want to make sure we’re not excluded from what comes next.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-4-wayland-is-growing-up-and-now-we-dont-have-a-choice/
#Linux #Wayland #Accessibility #Orca #GNOME #KDE #COSMIC #FOSS #a11y #BlindTech #xorg

i'm also happy and excited to announce that we've signed a partnership with @LinaroLtd to collaborate on the integration of the Qualcomm QCS6490 processor in the MNT Reform series of devices, including Pocket, Next, and especially our future mini tablet. more about this soon!

@maltimore Feel free to DM me the original text if you still have it - or is it a 'I don't want to/can not spend the extra time this may introduce if/when things break' concern? That I am quite familiar with and understand, although I believe that there are ways to reduce that exposure by avoiding services that require breakage-prone solutions where possible. But, again, admittedly, that may not be easy and definitely requires both work and compromise and usually is less convenient.

#uboot #u_boot now boots on BlackBerry Key2LE (using a android boot img and someone else's bootloader exploit)
#postmarketos is my next goal!
Thanks @cas for u-fetch to let me show off!

@maltimore
Let me paraphrase what I think you are writing: "If I can't fully escape proprietary services, I won't bother with free alternatives at all" - that does not make any sense to me. I understand that it's not easy, and that there can be a lot that needs to be figured out. If WhatsApp is a main concern, don't worry about Google Play to much, as WhatsApp can be downloaded without that directly, https://www.whatsapp.com/android, assuming Google were to shut https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aurora.store/ down. Having Waydroid (with (current) limitations that Android apps can't use bluetooth nor (on mainline) cameras) and putting Fdroid and Aurora Store on it is possible on Linux Mobile (e.g., postmarketOS) today. What's difficult are apps that require safetyNet, as common with banking apps. @Liberux @lucaotta

Jolla kills €25 yearly subscription for updates, guaranteeing five years of free updates instead

Welcome news coming out of Jolla, the company that develops Sailfish OS. Up until now, if you bought their Jolla C2 smartphone, you had to pay a yearly subscription fee in order to get updates (with the first year included in the purchase price)

https://www.osnews.com/story/142610/jolla-kills-e25-yearly-subscription-for-updates-guaranteeing-five-years-of-free-updates-instead/

#Mobile

#NewPipe #SailfishOS dev diary day 88.

Wrapping up the continuous loading of search items.

📜📜📜

https://www.flypig.co.uk/newpipe?&list_id=1321&list=newpipe

For the past week, I've been so angry and disappointed in the Linux community for being quiet in regards to any kind of celebration to advancing accessibility, but suddenly becoming vocal and supportive when privileged people start writing about how bad accessibility on Linux is while portraying contributors as the devils who don't care about anybody.

I'm so exhausted. I'm so demotivated. The Linux community really doesn't care about accessibility on Linux. No wonder accessibility on Linux sucks. No one wants to work on it because they keep getting bullied and pressured.

https://tesk.page/2025/06/18/its-true-we-dont-care-about-accessibility-on-linux/

#a11y #Accessibility #Linux #FOSS #GNOME #KDE