PSA: To everyone receiving your #PinePhone, please read the included documentation and consult our Wiki (https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/PinePhone) prior to use.
Make sure to place your SD and SIM cards in the correct slots; see attached illustration.
Minetest is a FOSS alternative to Minecraft, and has just received a major update. Follow at:
➡️ @Minetest
It's available for Linux, Mac, Windows, Android and BSD from the official site:
The update makes it much easier to access game modes and mods. If you haven't tried it in a while, it might be worth another look.
Also check out this world-building project called Illuna:
https://share.tube/videos/watch/d84239ab-55c0-4c19-bf5e-e1dd6a7b4b17
Tusky 14 is out now!
- Redesigned the drafts function, so they are faster, more user friendly and hopefully more reliable.
- Wellbeing mode, allows you to limit certain features in Tusky. You can enable it in Preferences!
- Animated emoji support, need we say more?
- Timed mutes (for supported servers).
- Notification 🔔 for specific users posting, ring the bell icon on their profile (Mastodon 3.3.0 feature).
https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v14.0
You can support our development via https://opencollective.com/Tusky
1/ I just published a massive article called "Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now" https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10231-recovering-our-lost-free-will-online-tools-and-techniques-that-are-available-now
I will summarize some key points in this thread, but please do check out the article.
Less Software
👋 Synapse 1.27.0, the same version that powered FOSDEM this month, is out! Read all about it at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/18/synapse-1-27-0-released
⚠️ If you use SSO, please check the upgrade notes: some endpoint URLs have changed.
🔮 If you want to glimpse the future, 1.280rc1 is also now on GitHub! ✨
Dendrite v0.3.10 has been released, with a crash fixed and hopefully lower idle memory usage 🎈 If you’re running Dendrite, please upgrade! https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/releases/tag/v0.3.10
Plasma 5.21 is out and it is the prettiest thing ever. Check out the new wallpaper, the easy-to-use application launcher, the brand new system monitor, and dozens of other improvements that make 5.21 the ideal desktop for you.
PINE64’s PinePhone Default OS Revealed: Manjaro Linux ARM with Plasma Mobile UI
https://9to5linux.com/pine64s-pinephone-default-os-revealed-manjaro-linux-arm-with-plasma-mobile-ui
Check out the latest #PinePhone and other @PINE64 updates for the month of February!
https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/291ec4f1-8fae-49d2-b4e6-e24d87282edb
PINE64 February Update! We've said it before, but for real this time: this is a big one...
- A look at #Quartz64 RK3566 SBC
- #PinePhone keyboard news
- We're making a RISC-V SBC! -
- #PinePhone default OS is @kde PlaMo on @ManjaroARM
- #PinebookPro back in March
- #LoRaWAN part of our ecosystem
- #PineTime progress
- much more!
https://www.pine64.org/2021/02/15/february-update-show-and-tell/
Want all the gory details of how we hosted the world's largest free/open source conference #FOSDEM21 via Matrix? We just posted the full writeup at https://matrix.org/blog/2021/02/15/how-we-hosted-fosdem-2021-on-matrix. Huge thanks to @FOSDEM@twitter.com for putting their faith in Matrix & to everyone who helped make it a success! 🎉❄️🎆
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You Can Now Run KDE Plasma 5.21 on Your PinePhone with Manjaro Linux ARM
https://9to5linux.com/you-can-now-run-kde-plasma-5-21-on-your-pinephone-with-manjaro-linux-arm
Spritely Goblins: a distributed journey (my talk from FOSDEM 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqrzag__X7o or https://share.tube/videos/watch/fd98bbdd-8c2e-4229-b0c7-e7b16937901a !
Focuses on @spritelyproject's Goblins distributed programming environment from a PL history POV, plus how we might collab w/ the Guile & Guix communities
LF AI & Data Announces Principles for Trusted AI - LF AI
https://lfaidata.foundation/blog/2021/02/08/lf-ai-data-announces-principles-for-trusted-ai/
RT @saghul@twitter.com
"The Road to End-to-End Encryption in Jitsi Meet" slides from my talk @fosdem@twitter.com yesterday 👉 https://www.slideshare.net/saghul/the-road-to-endtoend-encryption-in-jitsi-meet or https://www.slideshare.net/saghul/the-road-to-endtoend-encryption-in-jitsi-meet
Our friends at @safenetvoice@twitter.com just published an article which offers some great insight into private messaging, and includes some useful infographics.
There are a lot of different messaging apps.
Here's a quick and easy way to tell them apart
https://id.safenet.or.id/2021/01/panduan-memilih-aplikasi-percakapan-yang-melindungi-privasi/
Attending the online #LibrePlanet2021 conference, March 20-21, is gratis, but we hope you'll register in advance to help us plan. More exciting news on schedule and keynotes coming soon! https://u.fsf.org/383