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A year in the making, today we merged our new boot #splashscreen! A fancy animation, some text allowing you to show off to your friends the #mainline kernel you run, it's all included!
Get it now while it's still fresh, "apk upgrade -a" on a #postmarketOS edge installation and reboot
@NeonPurpleStar @postmarketOS This splash screen works just fine on the Fairphone 4
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heh i did an update today and was like "when did that happen".
Now i know.
@postmarketOS I can confirm that it looks nice on the Pinebook too, something in that update scaled the logo down to a reasonable size for a Laptop :)
@gamey @postmarketOS heh this was a big contributing factor for creating pbsplash. Previously all the splash images were just pre-computed at a fixed DPI
glad it's an improvement! :)
@postmarketOS Причудливая анимация - это хорошо, но вот зачем 8 пингвинов при загрузке? :)
@pvlb @postmarketOS Sorry we don't speak Russian, could you repeat in English?
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Hi #PostMarketOS,
We are enjoying seeing your progress. Is your distro fully FOSS, or were you forced by manfacturers to use proprietary bits?
@dsfgs @postmarketOS Userland is fully FOSS. However proprietary firmware is needed for some hardware support, although that depends on the device in use.
Who is "we" btw?
@bart
Nice. Which hardware manufacturers havw allowed full FOSS?
People who have supported the three pillars of (#)DickSmith's FairGo movement. Prior to being suppressed on Fakebook for speaking up about Assange's persecution, and massSurveillance apps pushed in 2020, we had around 4000 followers.
@dsfgs @postmarketOS I guess Purism with the Librem 5 comes closest. They still have proprietary firmware but afaik it's unmodifiable and has no way to update it anyway even if it was FOSS.
@bart
Thanks PTO,
We honestly had no idea our choices were so limited. Is it at least #openSource and locked?
There is such an appearance of choice on shelves. A friend told us tecenty that #Alcatel, who make a #Telstra range here, use a CPU called #MediaTek which is hostile to #FOSS.
Its sad to see the #fosstility in the world.
If and only if #Librem5 are #closedSource, what about #Microsoft, don't they :heart: #openSource?
@dsfgs
i think it depends on the device. I dont know about a full open hardware device yet, maybe Librem5 or PinePhone.
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