Why installers are needed for disk encryption One of the things postmarketOS has worked on is the installer images. For the longest time postmarketOS did not ship any pre-built images but required everyone to generate one with pmbootstrap. Here's some of the explanation for that.
Phones Running the kernel.org tree on the PinePhone Trying to run an unpatched kernel on the PinePhone
Phones Does this come with dead pixels? This question comes up quite often so here's the copy-paste-able answer
Linux Running Octoprint on the PinePhone Running Octoprint and a camera stream from the PinePhone to remotely control a 3d printer
Electronics Reverse engineering the BMD camera HDMI control Reverse engineering the BMD HDMI camera control protocol by splicing a logic analyzer in an HDMI cable.
Linux Installing plain Alpine Linux on a Rockpro64 Installing Alpine Linux with the postmarketOS kernel on the PINE64 Rockpro64
Phones Do you really want Linux phones The community around Linux phones is interesting. The phones do sell to a lot of people, but it seems a lot of those people come back to complain that Linux
Linux Git email flow vs Github flow Comparing the Github and Gitlab pull request workflow to the Git built-in email workflow.
Phones PinePhone Camera pt4 The fourth part in the PinePhone camera improvements series. Now with more color and focus.
Phones PinePhone camera adventures, part 3 The new PinePhone camera app Megapixels and other camera ramblings.
Phones Making a backcover extension for the PinePhone Trying to connect a thermal camera to the backcover of a PinePhone using the pogo pins.
Electronics E-paper status display My progress in using an E-paper display over USB to display data feeds.
Phones 4G is not 4G The 3G, 4G and 5G standards are strictly defined, meanwhile phone manufacturers and ISPs still act like they can put the 4G and 5G sticker on anything they want
Restoring gpg from a yubikey Creating a GPG keyring on a Yubikey is pretty much covered, but how do you restore GPG on a new device using the keyring on a Yubikey?
Phones Reusing old phones with postmarketOS A while back I made a blog post about my idea's about my ideal phone operating system. Now I found something that can make it a reality.
Building a wall computer A few months ago I got the idea to build a wall mounted art/computer thing after seeing a picture of someones watercooling setup mounted to a wall. As base for my build I used my office computer. It's a old MSI board (P55-GD65) with a first generation Intel Core i7 860.
Phones Creating a real GNU/Linux phone OS Android works fine, Ubuntu touch is making some of the same mistakes. I just want Linux on my phone.
Electronics Harley Benton (Thomann) Power Attenuator test and teardown Thomann just released their own amp attenuator. Let's measure it and take it apart.
Linux Cheap Chinese usb thumbdrives and benchmarks I read a few articles about BTRFS and ZFS and about cheap Chinese electronics so I thought I should combine that. So I bought the cheapest 1GB USB thumbdrives I could find on eBay. With four thumbdrives I can test various raid setups with BTRFS and ZFS and benchmark them.
