lqdev @lqdev@toot.lqdev.tech

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:

https://www.minetest.net

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:

➡️ @illunaminetest

https://share.tube/videos/watch/d84239ab-55c0-4c19-bf5e-e1dd6a7b4b17

#Minetest #Minecraft #Alternatives #FOSS #Gaming

- 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.

👋 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.

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/5/5.21.0/

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

#PinePhone #Linuxphone #PlasmaMobile #ManjaroARM

Check out the latest #PinePhone and other @PINE64 updates for the month of February!

https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/291ec4f1-8fae-49d2-b4e6-e24d87282edb

#PeerTube

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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#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #RSS #RSSFeeds

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

#PinePhone #ManjaroARM #KDEPlasma5.21

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

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/

#Indonesia

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