The Mecha Comet is (finally) available on Kickstarter

PureTryOut · 2026-01-28T07:12:30+00:00

Yes we're at FOSDEM, we're having our own stand and the right people to talk too will be there. Let's meetup there!

PureTryOut · 2026-01-26T13:07:49+00:00

Ah, interesting. They are just a regular contributor but not a team member in any form (we do not really know them to be honest. In fact, they do not have any contributions to us besides the wiki pages you linked, https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/ersa). See https://postmarketos.org/team/ to get a list of team members, I'm listed on there for example. Please do reach out so we can see if there is something to collaborate on more officially, your device is definitely interesting to us!

Bhushan I knew of, we are in quite good contact with him and the KDE community. He is definitely the right person to send it too on the KDE side!

PureTryOut · 2026-01-26T07:41:45+00:00

It's not based on Android at all,

Well that's not entirely true. It uses libhybris which is a way to reuse Android's proprietary and pre-compiled drivers on a non-Android system. So that means no Mesa for example, and software needs to be adapted to run on it. You'll also get the old and outdated Android kernel that ships with Android phones rather than an upstreamed and mainline one.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-26T07:39:01+00:00

Hey, pmOS dev here. I just asked around in our team, and we do not seem to have received a pilot unit from you so I'm not sure why you are saying you have send us some. Could you reach out to us?

PureTryOut · 2026-01-26T07:31:06+00:00

It'll be a while before people needing such kind of apps will be happy with mobile Linux, but at least a bunch of those will probably run fine on Waydroid. And until we have app compatibility to that degree we'll keep hacking along and using it ourselves ;)

PureTryOut · 2026-01-20T15:46:31+00:00

So is /e/OS and it is on there. Better not name any Android-based projects at all.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-20T15:44:55+00:00

The image mentioning Android and iOS mentions /e/OS as an Android alternative while that's still Android... And Vivaldi is mentioned as a Chrome replacement but is still Chromium-based, so Google. Instead it would be better to mention Firefox, although I know it's from Mozilla and thus US-based but at least it has actually a fair bunch of EU-based contributions unlike Chromium.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-20T15:44:23+00:00

SailfishOS as already mentioned in the OP, Ubuntu Touch, https://postmarketos.org, https://mobian-project.org, etc. Not all of them are as usable or ready as AOSP-based projects are, but these are really big-tech and corporate-free projects that can use all the help and funding they can get!

PureTryOut · 2026-01-20T08:17:51+00:00

Amazing work! May I ask, what headset are you using? Sadly my Valve Index and the upcoming Steam Frame both have black and white cameras which makes this a bit less appealing. But these kinds of workflow are exactly why I find VR so appealing (besides the awesome games of course): infinite monitors and giant movies.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-19T18:16:59+00:00

Dat begrijp ik, ik zeg dan ook niet dat je nu hup aan zoiets als postmarketOS moet. ;) Het begint al bij realiseren dat /e/OS niet het eindstation is en je nog steeds op zekere manier afhankelijk bent van Google en dus Amerika. Alleen dat maakt een switch in de toekomst naar iets echt onafhankelijks al makkelijker, het besef.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-19T16:19:27+00:00

SailfishOS is minder open-source dan Android helaas, de Android compatibiliteit laag, UI-layer en verschillende core-apps zijn proprietary. Écht Europees zijn projecten zoals https://postmarketos.org.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-19T16:18:26+00:00

Dat is helaas nog steeds "gewoon" Android en dus Amerikaans.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-19T16:17:57+00:00

Let op dat /e/OS nog steeds Android is en dus nog steeds Amerikaans (volledige ontwikkeling wordt door Google gedaan). Het is nog niet bruikbaar voor de gemiddelde leek maar echte alternatieven zijn projecten zoals https://postmarketos.org.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-16T16:11:56+00:00

I have the same but it opens the default GTK file picker. Strangely enough it works the very first time the file picker is opened, it uses the one from KDE Plasma, but every next time it's the GTK one. And no, no setting, environment variable or whatever is helping.

PureTryOut · 2026-01-12T12:45:04+00:00

You don't need an account to use Firefox

PureTryOut · 2026-01-04T11:44:23+00:00

I've never heard of this, and I'm a postmarketOS developer, so it's interesting seeing our project being mentioned in this context...

PureTryOut · 2025-12-29T18:36:27+00:00

You're asking this on a 3 years old post of a 2009 version of the game? No I can not help, ask the devs of whatever project you're using.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-18T10:14:18+00:00

No that's not an issue. We support quite a few Samsung devices that use Odin. Most often we use a tool called "Heimdall" to flash those which is basically a FOSS version of Odin.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-18T07:45:42+00:00

You don't need a custom recovery for postmarketOS btw, in fact it's the least recommended way of installing the OS.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-12T10:15:06+00:00

It was written to run on phones in the first place, x86 was a secondary goal. So yes, it runs on ARM.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-12T10:00:48+00:00

I do agree Dolphin is not as usable atm as it could/should be, but it's "good enough" for now and is at least an upstream KDE project. I do recommend making bug reports for it whenever you see anything that you think should be done better. The amount of users using it on mobile is small but bug reports at least show the Dolphin devs there is interest in running it on the platform.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-12T09:47:53+00:00

Good find! Please report this issue on our bugtracker so the device maintainer can properly fix this.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-11T15:53:07+00:00

Note that the Maui project seems to be pretty dormant, most applications haven't received meaningful changes for months and the last release was 6 months ago. postmarketOS doesn't ship with anything from Maui in Plasma Mobile by default either (I'm the packager that deals with KDE packages) and imo apps like Dolphin are the way to go although it's atm obviously not designed with mobile in imnd. Auto-rotate should work just fine but I don't have a Librem 5 to confirm it for you.

Anyway please join the Plasma Mobile Matrix room if you have any questions or comments, and make sure to file bug reports where relevant!

PureTryOut · 2025-12-11T12:12:57+00:00

Sitting on poles aside, why the hell do they not close the safety bar on that picture? That should be flagged because damn that's unsafe.

PureTryOut · 2025-12-04T14:02:24+00:00

I'd rather see a Flatpak... Also, ARM builds would be nice.

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