1. Buy a device, https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Devices#Main . I suggest the PinePhone if you want something with decent power management in the next few months, or PinePhone Pro if you're willing to wait a few months for decent power management.

2. Find good programs on https://linmobapps.frama.io/

3. Figure out what functionality you're missing. Contribute improvements.

Keep in touch with the community at https://linmob.net/

+1 the migration to libadwaita has been a win for aesthetics according to my taste!

> What if you don't want the same applications with the same interface modalities on different devices?

In an ideal world, you'd be able to choose from a variety of programs, to optimize for your usecase, all while maintaining data portability/sync.

Convergence is a practical choice to allow contributions to be shared by desktop and phone users.

https://amosbbatto.wordpress.com/2020/08/05/advantages-of-ph... discusses this.

I'm part of a small-moderate sized open source community.

We communicate via IRC/Signal, code via Git, and share knowledge via blogs, Mastodon, and talks.

It feels small and nice.

The fact that the rest of the Internet has grown into a different direction doesn't change that.

The pie is now bigger and largely corporate driven, and I'm okay not being part of that.

Is that so bad?

"News site's constant negative of ad-competitor Facebook hints at waning news influence."

Don't get me wrong, I don't care for FB's product, but the constant coverage is a bit pathetic.

FB are required to disclose all sorts of low probability risks to investors.

Well all mainstream media networks compete with FB for eyeballs so its natural for them to cover them negatively, its in their best interest to do so.

Where is the RSS feed for https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand/b006qshd ?

I can't find it. But I'm on mobile and not in the UK. The page does reference https://www.bbc.co.uk/editorialguidelines/guidance/feeds-and... but that isn't the podcast feed (and seems mostly unrelated).

If you just want the direct URL, then according to my podcast app, you can find it here:

https://podcasts.files.bbci.co.uk/p02nrss1.rss

I mean, is it discoverable via the show's webpage?

That's not the show's webpage, that's its Sounds page.

More or Less' programme webpage is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qshd

You can click on the the "More or Less Podcast" link in the show header there, which takes you to https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nrss1/episodes/downloads, which has an "RSS" link just below the "Subscribe in Sounds" button.

Apple has more control over its platform and can ensure video acceleration works for all participants.

Conference calls with a central server are particularly suspectible to "lowest common denominator" issues.

That makes a lot of sense. Vertical integration at its finest I guess.

From the article:

"Peer-to-peer calls require more bandwidth than calls routed through a server and are thus not suited for a large number of participants. In the future, we plan to also develop calls via a forwarding server to solve resource issues on the client side and to allow for calls with more participants."

It's even worse than that. P2P means that connection differences between peers also makea difference. User A might see users B and C, but user B might on see A due to a connection difference between user B and C. It is very annoying to enter a group chat and hear:

User B: Is user C's stream dead for anyone else? User A: I see user C. User C: Sorry, what? I'm right here.

Honestly, other than a 1-1 chat, I can't think of a situation where p2p is worthwhile. Even then, it's almost always better to use an SFU.

I use Jabber everyday to talk to my partner and family. They use https://quicksy.im/

Great! Dino is my XMPP client of choice, it's good to see a new release.

My partner and family use https://quicksy.im/ which is an XMPP client that uses their phone number as username, to give it a "convenient as WhatsApp/Signal" feel.

I run the mobile UI branch https://github.com/dino/dino/tree/feature/handy on my Pinephone.

Hey! I am considering buying a pinephone but fear I am not enough of a hacker, an XMPP is one of the few things I need in my pocket computer. How hard is it to get Dino working on the pinephone? Do A/V calls work?

Any general feedback on the pinephone? Is it your main smartphone?

The master branch as Dino is not suitable for mobile use, since its UI doesn't scale down. The feature/handy branch is needed.

I haven't seen A/V calls working, but I know compatibility is being worked on. Audio calls will work before video calls.

The Pinephone is a breath of fresh air, but it's not yet ready for casual use by techies.

Pinephone is too slow to be my main phone. I'm looking forward to Pinephone Pro, which is fast enough, being able to reliably sleep.

Even aside from speed, the original PinePhone isn't exactly usable if you want to use an XMPP client like this. It gets decent battery life by sleeping, but while it's asleep it'll stop receiving messages via XMPP, which... if that's your primary communication method, is not ideal.

I desperately want to daily drive a Linux phone again, but the current batch just isn't there yet.

>while it's asleep it'll stop receiving messages via XMPP

Isn't there any API (? or something) for apps to run in "minimal" mode, to wake up the phone when needed? Does this also mean that it's not possible to have the phone notify you when you receive an email in sleep mode?

> Isn't there any API (? or something) for apps to run in "minimal" mode, to wake up the phone when needed?

Ubuntu Touch is the only distro that has a mechanism like this, and my understanding is it doesn't run that well on the PinePhone. The rest will wake up for an incoming call or SMS, but otherwise will stay asleep.

> Does this also mean that it's not possible to have the phone notify you when you receive an email in sleep mode?

Currently, AFAIK, yes.

Come on now, it hasn't been there since the OpenMoko, even the N900 wasn't great compared to say the N95.

I have pretty much given up on the idea of running an "open source phone", unfortunately.