Part two of what happened in May of 2021 in postmarketOS. We don't follow a story arc, so you can listen to them in any order ;)

Featuring @craftyguy, @PureTryOut, @dylanvanassche, @z3ntu, @MartijnBraam, @ollieparanoid (in order of appearance). Send in your questions with

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Referenced in this episode:

• apkbrowser

  • https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org (using aports-turbo)
  • https://pkgs.postmarketos.org (using apkbrowser)
  • source of apkbrowser
  • source of aports-turbo

• AsteroidOS

  • AsteroidOS Homepage
  • main/postmarketos-ui-glacier: new aport
  • main/postmarketos-ui-asteroid: new aport
  • lg-{lenok,dory}: modernize and add AsteroidOS machine config
  • Mainlining SoCs

• LXQt

  • main/postmarketos-ui-lxqt: new pmaport with video and screenshot
  • LXQt homepage

• PinePhone: battery improvements, DRAM clock

  • How to change the clock frequency
  • Side-by-side video of various frequencies
  • megi's PinePhone Development log: 2021–05–22: PinePhone kernel news mentioning power consumption improvements
  • overheating warning in megi's 5.12 releases if used without latest crust and arm-trusted-firmware
  • temp/u-boot-pinephone: Automatic U-Boot upgrade and update Arm Trusted Firmware and Crust to latest commit

• RetroArch:

  • RetroArch homepage
  • postmarketOS wiki:
    • Photos of BQ Aquaris X5 running RetroArch
    • RetroArch (how to run it on your device!)
  • Upstream PR: add scaling to pointer input

• deviceinfo_mkinitfs_postprocess:

  • amazon-soho: new device (and main/postmarketos-mkinitfs: change to enable postprocess scripts)
  • deviceinfo reference

• mobile-config-firefox improvements:

  • issues: help wanted, some are quite easy to implement
  • Make about: pages more adaptive
  • Add dark theme for homepage
  • Save vertical space by drawing directly in the titlebar
  • Add CSS for about:preferences

Editing by: @MartijnBraam, Music by: The Passion HiFi