Sxmo 1.8.0 was just released. It has a plethora of usability improvements:

- the daemons more robust
- better bluetooth support
- pipewire/pulseaudio support

And many more fixes! Thanks to everyone that contributed and help identify major issues like the losing touch issue. The losing touch issue is fixed in pmOS edge and should be fixed in pmOS stable soon.

Full release notes here:

https://lists.sr.ht/~mil/sxmo-announce/%3C3KD3RSHP58RIQ.3R61291GDU0LW%40yellow-orcess.my.domain%3E

Enjoy!

Really good post on why distros and package maintainers matter:

http://kmkeen.com/maintainers-matter/

@werwolf link to blog?

@tomasino They disabled the use of "external desktop clients". So you have to use the webclient.

Im sure it's still using imap.

My university disabled imap so I have to use the outlook web client. This is a bug:

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook_com/forum/all/outlook-archiving-or-deleting-messages-in-inbox/c9f8cfe6-d7a5-42cf-b1a7-df90d6c2b473

How do you manage to ship a product with this bug. I spent so much time thinking I was doing something wrong.

@silverhax @fraolt @proycon Nice! Feel free to add your findings to the postmarketOS wiki so that you can find it in the future and others can help keep it up to date.

@silverhax @fraolt @proycon You could try using `x2x`. I have packaged it in alpine stable and edge.

@fraolt @silverhax @proycon You can install the dwm postmarketos ui metapackage alongside the sway postmarketos ui metapackage via apk. If you want, feel free to send a patch to the docs.

@twrightsman @craftyguy Writing a package for alpine is really easy!

@drq I dont use docker so I cant help you there. You can install go-sendxmpp from the alpine repos if you are on edge. If not, you have to use go get and have a potentially insecure version of go-sendxmpp.

I got blinking led working on the pinephone pro.

@cnx I use evil mode 😞

@cnx capslock is my escape key lol. I dont wanna change that. I use escape more than ctrl.

@graf LMAO. I use emacs so my left ctrl key broke 😞. I dont wanna order another set of keys so I just moved my right ctrl key to my left ctrl key.

@alexandra Yes it is!

👀👀👀👀👀👀👀

@jan_wagemakers Thanks for posting this, I had to ask in the chatroom how docker nftable worked so updated the firewall wiki page to include instructions on how to contribute.

@jan_wagemakers We dont need to poke holes in the default firewall. We can use the "install_if" in the APKBUILD (see man APKBUILD). This is how the docker rules in pmOS are set and the docker rules are only installed if docker is installed. Regardless, I want pmOS to have sane defaults out of the box so I submitted a merge request: https://gitlab.com/postmarketOS/pmaports/-/merge_requests/2725/diffs

@jan_wagemakers submitting a bug report or better yet, a merge request to pmaports would be cool! Ive always wanted to try out mosh.

@colinl I agree. I can recommend replicant, librem 5, or pinephone to anyone that values freedom over everything else. Thats why I see this article as about "why the fsf doesnt endorse the pinephone/librem 5 and why you might wanna buy one anyway if you care about freedom". In a world where "nothing to hide" has been the norm for 20+ years, freedom wont come overnight and we need a variety of approaches. Im just happy we have 3 phones I can recommend now to freedom lovers