I'm a hacker (smanettone) from Italy.
One of the goals of postmarketOS is to make Linux on Mobile usable for non-technical users . We are not there yet , one of the reasons is the current lack of reliability 1 . For example phone calls generally work, but sometimes they don't or the audio quality is very bad. I discussed about phone call testing with Anjan and Dylan during postmarketOS Hackathon 2025 , but after the event i put…
I have been daily driving postmarketOS on a OnePlus 6 since March 2024. I keep a list of the stuff which is not working , which helps me track the progress of the project through my personal experience. An entry of this list is: "Night light does not work", this is annoying when using the phone in the evening as it has a bright OLED screen. I've been following postmarketOS since 2019, but…
HDR Displays are becoming more widespread, but HDR photos are quite rare in photography. In this article, we are going to see how to use Darktable to produce an HDR image file (JPEG XL) from a RAW file. HDR or High Dynamic Range is a misleading term in photography, usually referred to the technique of shooting multiple photos with different exposures to capture the full dynamic range of an high…
After running Linux on my PS4 for a few days, I realized that the HDMI monitor I was using was not working properly with a Linux PC. It would display a wrong resolution and the correct one was not available in the settings. It all started after a PS4 firmware 9.00 exploit was released , and I dediced to try it. My goal was to run Linux to play recent PC games that do not run on my old Nvidia…
While reading megi's PinePhone Pro review I noticed that the PinePhone Pro eMMC is fast (~150MB/s), and began wondering why can't the original PinePhone eMMC (50-80MB/s) go that fast as well. eMMC cards can use these timing modes: Timing mode eMMC version Clock speed Max data rate Vccq voltage allowed Legacy >= 4.1 0-26MHz 26MB/s 3.3V, 1.8V, 1.2V DDR52 >= 4.4 0-52MHz…