josch

:debian: Debian Developer
:extinction: Climate activist
🎓 University lecturer

🌐 homepage: https://mister-muffin.de
📧 email: josch@debian.org
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2026-04-16 19:27:43 UTC

My RK3588 #MNT classic Reform just arrived back from repair. As usual, their shipping box fits perfectly into an Eurobox. Very satisfying! Even more satisfying was what I found inside the box: this looks like new or can you spot that anything got replaced after I fried my LTC chip? Even my poor soldering of D30 seems to have been magically fixed up? And there is a new WiFi antenna! Thank you so much for your work @npub1xse…lgk3 ♥️ I hope I'm not missing any of the things you fixed up with my machine?
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/116/416/052/374/608/707/original/f2f1e574096bb416.jpeg
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2026-03-25 21:20:18 UTC

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This is very impressive! Crazy that you are able to fix the position of a component like that!

2026-02-26 16:07:21 UTC

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Sorry for being one of those who have derailed this thread from the actual topic you wanted to talk about 😬

2026-02-26 06:26:34 UTC

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non-US datapoint: totally normal over here in Europe. Nobody blinks an eye. Most common non-local language to have such meetings in is... English :)

2025-10-17 13:35:32 UTC

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Text console still works. This includes single user mode.

2025-09-07 17:16:10 UTC

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What is libgtop under gnome is called "solid" in kde. Even without kde installed (i'm running sway on a311d classic reform) I can install the debian package libkf6solid-bin and it will show me a lot of details about the hardware in my system including the information that my processor consists of two 'ARM Cortex-A53' with 1.8 GHz and four 'ARM Cortex-A73' with 2.2 GHz max. This information is not present in /proc/cpuinfo and i wish gnome would give me a similar amount of detail.

2025-09-07 17:00:29 UTC

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No, this is more involved. On ARM, /proc/cpuinfo does *not* tell you that the CPU is a Cortex A55 or A76 like in this case. This is how it looks like instead: https://paste.debian.net/hidden/94142b6c So more magic needs to happen. For gnome, libgtop is responsible to provide this information and there is a 3 year old bug about this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgtop/-/issues/66 as well for gnome-control-center which is supposed to show this information: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2069

2025-08-03 11:40:50 UTC

Spontaneous meet-up of :debian: Debian Developers owning a @npub1sl7…lnx3 MNT Reform open hardware laptop in a small cafe in Munich. The photo shows two classic MNT Reform with A311D, one classic Reform with i.MX8MQ and a MNT Pocket Reform with RK3588. #debian
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/114/964/555/073/880/045/original/ce675f1dda7e113e.jpeg

2025-07-13 08:17:54 UTC

Explained to my 4-year-old daughter how electricity works. I asked her the name of the "+" symbol on the battery. Her answer: "That's where they hung Jesus." Unfortunately there are only christian kindergartens in Bavaria but it makes me really angry that this is what they teach them. They think of torture and murder instead of math when they see a "+" symbol and I should not have to spend the time and effort of trying to counteract what they teach...

2025-05-21 13:12:18 UTC

I'm currently updating the images and repository on https://reform.debian.net for the upcoming Debian Trixie release. Thanks to the insane generosity of @npub1flk…k4at I can now test this on a RK3588 @npub1sl7…lnx3 MNT Pocket Reform myself. And you know what? It just works. Out of the box. This platform has truly come a long way. It feels very mature and I believe it is a device that I can truly recommend to fellow GNU/Linux users. This not just a machine to tinker. This is a reliable daily driver.
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/114/545/983/463/301/000/original/68cd7dd2e26c8e85.jpeg

2025-05-19 11:35:01 UTC

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@npub1pus…aagp Ah yes indeed. I watched the talk by @npub13a8…am5l at minidebconf hamburg yesterday and I think I saw that for the PP you need to set { box-shadow: none; } in ~/.config/gtk-4.0/gtk.css as a workaround.
For the other platforms there are good news: Timo Aaltonen merged the etnaviv texelfetch support by @npub1n6z…v2dl into mesa for Trixie with the upload of mesa 25.0.5-2 just now 🥳

2025-05-17 03:35:58 UTC

@npub1tn0…ckq0 just announced the first release candidate of the Debian Installer for Debian 13 "Trixie". 🥳 https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2025/05/msg00003.html
Thanks to @npub16qz…mdzw it includes flash-kernel support for the @npub1sl7…lnx3 MNT Reform 2 with RCORE RK3588 Module.
You still need a kernel with the RK3588 patch stack by @npub1hpq…n5tk but at least you don't need to patch flash-kernel anymore. 😀

2025-05-15 17:45:33 UTC

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Or maybe you have better connections to the mesa maintainers in Debian than I and let them have a look at https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1104029

2025-04-29 11:54:53 UTC

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Oh no, I'm sorry this is my fault. I typo-ed MESA_GLES_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2 in my bug report! Mea culpa! I can see now in my shell history that I never used the other variable on my imx8mq Reform... Sorry for the trouble! I'm going to update the bug report...

2025-04-29 07:48:24 UTC

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Huh... maybe I'm blind but I only see the "extra" error after you have installed mesa-vulkan-drivers but not the error you get just with the patch.

2025-04-29 04:48:33 UTC

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Can you share the error message with MESA_GL_VERSION_OVERRIDE=3.2? For me it showed MESA: error: Unhandled NIR tex type: 4 and that triggered the implementation by Christian Gmeiner. Maybe @npub1n6z…v2dl can help you with gtk4.18 on the librem5 as well?

2025-04-28 23:21:32 UTC

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Uh good point, the librem 5 with imx8mq is of course also affected... Does somebody maybe have better connection to the Debian mesa maintainers than I? :)

2024-12-27 22:24:24 UTC

Purple Reform Next running Factorio? The factory of open hardware laptops must grow! 🏭 :openhardware:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next
https://cdn.masto.host/floss/media_attachments/files/113/727/113/957/400/075/original/5c794da2142bcfcd.jpg

2024-10-16 15:36:36 UTC

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Yeah, I was also thinking about a CD player but then burning CDs is kinda wasteful compared to just flashing an SD-card or USB stick. Cassette sounds like a nice idea though.
To your last point: my daughter (3) already knows how to remove and re-attach the back plate of my reform (all 10 screws by herself) so they can do surprising things if you teach them early. :)

2024-10-16 10:59:47 UTC

Dear fediparents, can you recommend a device for children to entertain themselves with audio/music it plays? Anything with a closed-source ecosystem based on DRM or tracking is a no-go.
In search for a solution I stumbled across https://en.hoerbert.com/ which seems to tick all my boxes except that it's not open hardware and its ESP32 firmware is propr. as well. But they publish schematics as CC-BY and sell DIY kits. The Qt client is GPL on github and supports linux.
Other ideas? Boosts welcome!

2024-09-13 10:22:27 UTC

I know I'm late, but only recently I read https://gitea-open-letter.coding.social/ and today I finally migrated my gitea instance at gitlab.mister-muffin.de (the subdomain name tells you where I'm coming from) to #Forgejo. Luckily my gitea installation was still at v1.21 and thus migrating from gitea to forgejo was as simple as switching out the gitea binary for the forgejo binary. It was literally only that. Thank you @npub12r3…zz58!

2024-08-29 13:23:33 UTC

Debian is providing funding for an MNT Reform with RK3588 so that I can improve Debian support on that platform and can provide long term stable support for it for Trixie and beyond. Thank you for this opportunity!
For full transparency, my funding request for Debian sponsorship can be found as PDF here:
https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.pdf
Or here in HTML form:
https://mister-muffin.de/reform/funding-application.html