Chris Vogel shared 13 hours ago
It's not only that the EUID wallet prefers iOS and Android, they don't want to even look at alternatives:
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/.github/issues/20#issuecomment-6337434090
It's nice that the spec is open but that only helps so much as long as 💵 goes into the proprietary software channels.
Chris Vogel shared a day agoIt's been over 2 months now that I switched from a mutable LinuxMobile distro (that served me very well for the last couple of years) to immutable #BengalOS as my daily driver 📱.
Having used apt and friends for ages I expected transition pain but having toolbox 🧰, nothing like that happened. I just enjoy the save upgrades and recent software versions.
Chris Vogel shared 7 days ago
People who find LLMs useful when "used correctly" don’t understand that they manage to use them correctly because they spent 20 years of there life learning their craft without LLMs.
LLMs is the only tool for which the less you use it, the better you become at using it.
Looking at routing in #BengalOS I stumbled over an issue at #NetworkManager that explains why Linux clients started having problems on my home wifi: via #DHCP I sent a router (option 3) and a static route (option 121).
Background: at the time of configuration I used a VPN connection while connected to my wifi that routed 192.168.0.0/16. I needed one /24 subnet to be routed over my default gateway. The static route for the class-c net had the smaller netmask and overruled the class-b route for the VPN-connection.
After the change I was missing a default route, added it to NetworkManager as a local entry and had been done until stumbling over it again with a new installation.
Now I know … 
I'm using #PassFF with #pass to store my passwords. The login forms used on various sides sometimes break the workflow.
For my issue logging in to #proxmox madduck shared a simple workaround:
Add additional fields to the pass entry to give PassFF hints what to fill where. The additional fields are no secrets nor worth storing, but they push PassFF to filling the credentials into the correct fields.
Chris Vogel shared 25 days ago
Just managed to do my first digital payment on a #postmarketOS Linux smartphone 🤩
Thanks to @AlexLArmstrong on GitHub for providing hacks doing #Libcamera passthru to #Wayland. After that my @glsbank #WERO app was able to do the transaction!
Chris Vogel shared 28 days ago@me You don't need to copy the whole file. Adding an override snippet is enough. See `systemctl edit`
So you added a user account to your linux (mobile) for any reason? That account will never be used to login to #Linux?
Well, it will show up on your login screen unless you picked an uid from the range of system accounts.
On #Mobian and #postmarketOS the login screen is presented by the greeter run from greetd. For #Phosh the greeter is #Phrog. The user accounts to show on the login screen are requested from #AccountsServices.
One way to get rid of an user account on the login screen is to mark it as a system account: USER=<username>; echo -e '[User]\nSystemAccount=true' | sudo tee /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER; sudo chmod 600 /var/lib/AccountsService/users/$USER
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/AccountsService https://github.com/samcday/phrog https://sr.ht/~kennylevinsen/greetd/
Next #GoeLinuxOnMobile #meeting is Monday 21st of September 19:30.
We'll meet at the Strandhaus37 in #Göttingen/#Weende. If you'd like to join us for talk about #LinuxOnMobile, digtial #souvereignity, #FLOSS you can easily find us by looking for a table with phones scattered about :).
Topics:
- a look at the #Murena phone
- a look at the #PineNote
- #Attestation
- running infrastructure the linux mobile ecosystem
#PostmarketOS allows to have multiple users. If automatic login is disabled on start a login screen is shown presented by #greetd typically running as the system user greetd.
greetd is logged in automatically to do its magic and systemd starts all the configured user services for that user.
#udiskie is integrated as such a service and mounts all removable media to /run/media/greetd - on my #Shift6mq the sdcard.
After logging in the greetd user session is logout out and the new session for the authenticated user is started. udiskie for the greetd session is stopped leaving the sdcard mounted to the path for greetd.
udiskie starts for the authenticated user, but does not mount the removable media, because it is already mounted for the former logged in greetd.
No music in #gapless 
An easy way around this is to change the service file for udiskie to the new version from the example directory of udiskies repository by copying it to /etc/systemd/user/.
Once systemd picked up the changes udiskie will not be started for system users anymore and systemd will run udiskie-umount after stopping the service on user logout.
Now one UserA can logout and UserB can use the same sdcard if file permissions allow.
Chris Vogel shared a month ago
Nitrokey on RISC-V using Trussed, Xous, Baochip - this will be great 😎
Chris Vogel shared 4 months ago
A consumption strike would change the world. But we just don't do it. Instead of pointing to investors and everyone else, we should point to ourselves. We should ask ourselves why we still use their services so that they make money.
Just to be clear here: WE are paying them.
Chris Vogel shared 4 months ago
Happy to announce that I recently became the maintainer of the NFC Linux kernel subsystem.
And today I sent my first pull request in that role.
Excited for what comes next, and grateful to the Linux kernel community for the trust. #LinuxKernel #NFC #Embedded #MobileLinux #LinuxMobile
Big fun! 
Got a logic analyzer, because receiving the DCF77 time signal fails often.
The definition how the signal is supposed to look is simple and clean and there must be a better way to ignore the wrong pulses.
Chris Vogel shared 4 months ago
@linmob I gave a talk yesterday on the #eudi_wallet and feasibility of an implementation for #mobilelinux at the @phosh community meeting. Comments/corrections very welcome! Slides were intended to be presented with some additional comments, but might be interesting anyways: https://hardwarenahe-it.gitlab-ce-pages.hs-bochum.de/eudi-wallet/
Are there any folks interested in participating the #hackathon on #eudi_wallet to explore options to make it compatible with #floss / #linux systems? https://eudi-wallet.gov.de/en/events/hackathon
I'm looking for a very special clock:
- epaper display
- receiver for time signal broadcast in Germany
- showing
- time
- qr for an url containing a totp token
- low power usage, battery not necessary
Chris Vogel shared 5 months ago
Philip Patsch @Profpatsch will demo #Flohmarkt – federated decentral classified ad software using Activitypub. We will show you can use other fedi platforms (e.g. mastodon) to interact with small ads and talk to the seller via DMs.
Next week at https://fediforum.org
Chris Vogel shared 5 months ago
I managed to get my close family using #Matrix for communication, we have been using it for about 6yrs. For the most part, it has worked pretty well!
But the 2 biggest complaints I have are:
1) key mgmt is soooo hard for people who are "non-technical" to understand and do consistently. So many times someone got a new phone, traded in the old then couldn't read old messages on Matrix
2) Android matrix app notifications are totally busted for several folks. We can't rely on this for fast comm.
The #school my son attends to gets new devices from the state of #Niedersachsen. The devices are a collection of #iOS, #windows and #chromeos.
His school - until know - promoted and supported using #linux and #opensource.
Now it is completely unclear whether it will be possible to use and support these devices with linux.
https://hallo.ween.de/@chris/statuses/01KP7YFY7504409D06PBP16WAR
Chris Vogel shared 6 months ago
Directly from #clt2026 comes our release candidate for #phosh 0.54 and related components: 🎉 📱 .
The release is planned 2026-04-05: https://phosh.mobi/releases/calendar/
We've also tagged the companion releases for gmobile 0.7.0 and pfs 0.0.8.
