rokejulianlockhart

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[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

Indeed - https://xdaforums.com/t/does-twrp-function-with-non-aosp-oses.4692346/post-89709288 seems to elaborate quite well, if you agree with it. Thanks for the response.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 days ago

If interesting, I've also posted at the XDA Developers forum about whether this is more broadly applicable.

 

I'd like to install PMOS onto my Fairphone 5, because TWRP recently became available for it. However, the comments and post above this Reddit comment appear to demonstrate that the PMOS installer might overwrite all partitions (A and B, but also Recovery), if I've understood it correctly.

Has anyone used both together? If so, can you confirm whether it functions (as expected)?

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

You couldn’t even comprehend that I wasn’t criticising a person (consider this as criticism).

I evidently am able to comprehend it. If I were as incapable as you purport, you informing me would be worthless. You doing so, with this response, demonstrate consequently that your assumption is incorrect. It's a strange one to make.

It really isn’t that great that instead of active discussion you stumble upon months-old threads.

You responding renders it active. Any alternative designation is fundamentally nonsensical.


If you're to discuss semantics, be more pedantic, else this conversation is uninformative for us.


I made a point illustrating that switching off from reddit didn’t do any good for the community.

I'm aware. It's quite easily comprehensible. However, it's unsubstantiated, hence the downvotes.

 

After researching why current consumer and embedded ARM (and, to a lesser extent, embedded RISC-V) devices are difficult to port to, the primary reason appears to be device discovery and driver support.

Obviously, extracting proprietary drivers from a potentially outdated AOSP-based OS version with a probably quite outdated kernel and getting that to run in mainline is a lot of work.

However, getting device trees shouldn't be, and really shouldn't be necessary, since they're not something that a manufacturer would hope close to their chest, unlike complex driver software.

Consequently, I would like to request to Fairphone – considering their mission statement – that they provide device trees and enumerable busses (if they don't) but would like to verify here that I wouldn't look like a moron asking for the wrong thing.

I hope this makes sense.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is it FOSS? I'm having a difficult time locating its source.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago

No, I had not. That's certainly novel.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

Really impressive work. SystemD was the sole thing missing from PMOS for me – I'm ecstatic that I'll finally be able to say, when it's done, that – excluding 3rd-party GUIs’ support – it's better than AOSP.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah, I just installed it from 23.12's repository. Works well for the basics. Many thanks.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you. I'll use that information about the USB ID for my report to KDE. However, could you elaborate somewhat? That is, would it be correct to ask for Plasma to not merely utilize the USB ID to identify whether a device is accessible, but test whether it can be accessed by MTP first, before presenting that option to the user? Regardless, per what you've said, I've consolidated my previously disparate reports under https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486931.

Additionally, I'll definitely mention on Bugzilla that incorporating some of the patches in that package would be a feasible implementation method. Relevantly, I'd like to use that package, but because I'm not using Edge, would adding that repository do any harm (for instance, would it be added with higher priority by default than existent repositories)?

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Those criticisms seem reasonable. Regarding package signing, are you referring to https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/613#issuecomment-134361033? Additionally, that default for pip seems veritably insane. I understand using system packages, but modifying packages outside the virtual environment is definitely weird.

 

Having ascertained https://discuss.kde.org/t/how-to-capture-a-screenshot-in-plasma-mobile/15070/2?u=rokejulianlockhart, I'd like to be able to transfer screenshots off my Plasma Mobile device.

  1. I try to access it via KDE Plasma 6's Disks & Devices plasmoid (widget):

    Screenshot_20240505_041647|460x450

  2. However, all I see is:

    Screenshot_20240505_041605|689x170

Weirdly, it's acting like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=486594#c0.

I ask because I'd like to upload screenshots to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1895116#c1, and ascertain whether it affects https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/webflash/-/issues/2#note_1892953259.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

You shouldn't criticise someone because they were late to a discussion.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

It worked for me. I came here instead of Reddit, which would have alternatively been my primary choice.

[–] rokejulianlockhart@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'd like it opened for new users to be able to participate there without a Lemmy account, but there's a cost-benefit ratio to everything, and the additional moderation burden and potential fragmentation of the small community appears to outweigh the benefits. Additionally, a lack of choice paralysis can be quite a significant advantage.

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