Adam Honse

Software Engineer, Linux Enthusiast, OpenRGB (npub1897…ssyy) Developer, and Gamer

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/CalcProgrammer1
Location: Gardner, Kansas, USA
GitLab: https://gitlab.com/CalcProgrammer1
Pronouns: he/him

Last Notes

2025-05-27 00:20:58 UTC

My Touchpad Emulator project is now in the #AlpineLinux testing repository! My merge request got merged this morning and I was able to install it on my #postmarketOS edge devices! The package name is touchpad-emulator. It turns the touchscreen into a trackpad style mouse to make desktop UIs easier to use on a touch-only mobile device.
#TouchpadEmulator #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

2025-05-05 02:10:12 UTC

Success! I've installed a new battery in my #OnePlus 6 running #postmarketOS. Old battery capacity reported around 0.5Ah, new battery out of the box reports 2.96Ah and was around 50% charged, so letting it charge up now. Used a hair dryer to weaken the adhesive and @npub1ulc…x3hg suction cup and picks to get the back off. After removing the back, swapping the battery is quite simple.
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2025-04-11 13:59:54 UTC

New weird issue I've run into with #Librewolf on #postmarketOS / #AlpineLinux - the latest version in the Alpine repository doesn't want to play any videos. I've tried on both YouTube and several Peertube instances and videos just sit at an endless spinner. Audio works fine, playing music from my Subsonic server works no problem. I installed the #Flatpak version and symlinked my profile directories, it plays video just fine using the same profile.

2025-04-02 00:44:36 UTC

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Nexus 5 (lg-hammerhead) joins the group again after reflashing #postmarketOS on it. I set all these up to make sure #TouchpadEmulator autostart works with screen rotation on all of them. I released a new version with minor changes to get this working and updated my Alpine merge request.
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2025-03-24 00:12:57 UTC

Tested the latest #GNOME #Snapshot on #postmarketOS on my #PINE64 #PinePhonePro! It's been a while since I revisited the PinePhonePro but with cameras and camera utilities coming a long way on newer devices I wanted to revisit #libcamera on the PinePhones. I installed @npub1f27…g56p's cameractrl and it successfully controls focus, but the PPP camera seems to have autoexposure that reduces the utility of cameractrl's exposure slider. Anyways, here's a picture of some other postmarketOS devices.
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2025-03-21 14:00:31 UTC

I'm impressed with the #GNOME #Snapshot app. Built in QR code scanner is fast and detected even blurry codes. The stock #OnePlus 6/6T camera app on Android doesn't scan codes at all. This was a big lacking area in #LinuxMobile as QR codes are everywhere and everyone expects you to be able to scan them but #postmarketOS was unable to do so until the recent camera bringup, at least for the OnePlus 6T.
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2025-03-07 17:40:35 UTC

Got the camera actuator on my #OnePlus 6T to focus with the help of @npub1f27…g56p and poking i2c registers with i2cset. It looks like the actuator on my camera needs an enable register set.
This is at focus 1700:
#postmarketOS
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2025-03-06 20:19:16 UTC

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LibreWolf is where it's at. I agree that the defaults are a bit too restrictive but it's easy enough to change, and starting from a default of too much privacy is better than starting with a default of too little. I do want to move away from Firefox Sync now since Mozilla holds the keys to that system, maybe I'll look into self hosting it.

2025-02-10 22:43:40 UTC

The Scaling Plugin in #Phosh 0.45 rc1 works exactly as I hoped! This new feature is going to be super useful for people using desktop applications on #LinuxMobile!
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2025-02-05 22:00:17 UTC

Let's compare! OnePlus 6 (stock Android) vs OnePlus 6T (postmarketOS). Both phones have the exact same dual camera module it seems. The rear camera supported in postmarketOS now is actually the secondary sensor, so I took a picture with the secondary sensor on Android using the "secret" camera debug mode by dialing *#*#1597#*#*.
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2024-10-18 17:57:25 UTC

#Steam in Box86! I set it up in a similar way on #postmarketOS, this time using a Debian Distrobox container as Debian has full arm64 and armhf multiarch support, installed box86 and box64 and dependencies. I want to compare performance between box86/64 and FEX.
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2024-10-14 20:21:04 UTC

Steam on #PinePhonePro with #postmarketOS! Let's see how games fare on this one.
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