Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (13/2025): Crossing Platforms, Breaking Barriers
OM System Says It Prioritizes Computational Features Over Megapixels https://petapixel.com/2025/03/14/om-system-says-it-prioritizes-computational-features-over-megapixels/ #computationalphotography #omsystemom3 #Interviews #megapixels #Equipment #interview #Features #omsystem #olympus #livend #cp+ #om3
Three Year Later, the Sony a7R V Remains a Class Leader https://petapixel.com/2025/03/11/three-year-later-the-sony-a7r-v-remains-a-class-leader/ #highresolution #canoneosr5ii #comparison #megapixels #Equipment #fullframe #landscape #portrait #sonya7rv #wildlife #Opinion #nikonz8 #opinion #oped
They said #XMPP was connected to #xampu, so I made some! 
Hair is personal. Messaging should be too 
The owner of Beeja Botanicals is my former classmate, and she's used the shampoo herself, so I know it's good! The first batch is ready and will be available for purchase at #PravConf (or will be, once I've finished wrapping it all 
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PS: flyer designed with #Inkscape, and photo taken with #Megapixels on #Mobian on the #PocoF1! 
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[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for "eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.](https://cdn.fosstodon.org/media_attachments/files/114/065/976/385/486/969/original/8a8efb24a321643f.png "Flyer. Full text follows, along with a description of accompanying images:
[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for \"eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol\". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.")
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (52/2024): The Last One of the Year
https://linmob.net/weekly-update-52-2024/
With: #postmarketOS 24.12, #Danctnix, #UbuntuTouch, # SailfishOS, #Sxmo, #Megapixels and more #LinuxMobile fun!
First photos taken with the Samsung Galaxy S III on #postmarketOS, probably! Credits to Jack Kekzoz, @martijnbraam, and whoever else helped him with getting #Megapixels working on the Midas (Samsung Galaxy S III and Note II) devices — I'm just posting about this, I didn't work on it myself. Hopefully we'll have it available in Edge over the coming months.
Könntet ihr ein professionell produziertes #Foto von einer #SonyAlpha 12mpx #Kleinbild Kamera unterscheiden von jenem einer #Fujifilm 100mpx #Mittelformat #Kamera
A) am grossen Bildschirm
B) als Instagram Post
C) als Kleindruck A4
D) als Grossformatdruck
Aber seht selbst: https://youtu.be/E8Sej2TEes4?si=29uyfTKyAVw4hZsm
@PierreBucheli Not sure about #Megapixels, but on the #libcamera side there's quite a bit of work on the ISP (rkisp1) implementation (see https://patchwork.libcamera.org/project/libcamera/list/). So the 0.4 release will have some nice stuff, possibly even tuning data for the PPP specifically.
Not sure if #manjaro has the #libcamera + #Pipewire combi set up by default (#postmarketos and #mobian do) - if it has, you can just run #gnome camera / snapshot or a bunch of other apps (kamoso on #kde) to give it a try.
Camera section started with what I have (not much for now ;))
https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Sxmo:Pixel3a#Camera
I might want to dig into this when I'm ok with calls ... don't know yet if i'll go #megapixels or gnome-snapshot ...
Here's postprocessd from #megapixels applying lens distortion and vignetting correction (the wrong values to make it more visible when testing)
This should help a lot with image quality
Lilbits: Volla Tablet, Google Pixel 9 Pro, and MediaTek Dimensity 7350
The Volla Tablet is tablet that’s set to ship this fall with support for Android or Ubuntu Touch operating systems, optional pen and keyboard support, and a focus on privacy.
When Volla launched a crowdfunding campaign for the tablet earlier this year, the plan was to build a device with a 12.3 inch display, 12GB of RAM, and 256GB of […]
Megapixels was one of the first (somewhat) full-featured camera apps for mobile Linux phones like the PinePhone. Developer Martijn Braam has been working on v2.0 for over a year, and shares some goals & updates in this video. https://buff.ly/3zKubWG #MobileLinux #LinuxSmartphones #Megapixels #Smartphones #PinePhone #CameraApps
On the #pinephone it's still quite laggy - especially compared to #megapixels. But oh well 
All devices use 1080p resolutions btw. - if you count odd ones like 1280x1080 (or 1080x1280...) as such.
#postmarketOS just landed the last MR needed to make the #libcamera + #PipeWire camera stack work on the #Librem5 and #PinePhone by default, using the new software ISP shipped in libcamera 0.3.
So if you have such a device: just update and go install apps like Snapshot, Warp, Decoder etc. You can even use it with Firefox and - very soon - Chromium.
Note that this does *not* replace #megapixels or #millipixels - those continue to be the default camera apps.
Lilbits: Google Pixel 9, Moto Razr (2024), and Dell’s 3-year roadmap leaked
Apparently leak season is upon us. Details about Google’s next-gen flagship phones have been trickling out for a while, but now Russian website Rozetked has published what are alleged to be the first public hands-on pictures of the upcoming Google Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro, and Pixel 9 Pro XL.
Meanwhile, SmartPrix has details about […]
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (19/2024): Shift-ing to mainline
Weekly GNU-like #MobileLinux Update (06/2024): More #FOSDEM talks and releases of #pmbootstrap and #Megapixels
