Valid concern. This does not make the current system fascist though.

Hello, The latest pmos, with Xiaomi Redmi S2, has several problems which makes it unusable as serious phone:

• in parameters/sound, we must choose which entry and exit we want
• there is no feature in the profiles (complete, discrete, silenced) to adapt them at different situations and make further settings
• thus, when set on earpiece, the phone rings on earpiece when a call happen
• when set on speaker, it rings well, but makes echo since it uses speakers to talk
• their must be a feature to ring automatically with speakers, and switch to earpiece when we take the call
• geary and file manager have problems switching between select and scrolling, Geary tries to move emails or open them instead of scrolling, and file manager too, that's worse in this last case.
• dolphin hasn't this problem
• touchpad doesn't react sometimes, rather often, like there is latence to scroll

I have other bugs to say.

Finally I don't know how to put this in a place where it's read by many people, lemmy I don't have a lot of reacts, mastodon the same, here the messages are buried, is gitlab the best place?

I want really pmOS to become a solid alternative, time flies and here in Europe it's not a lot better with worse companies

Selecting text behaviour is not stable, maybe you know that

I didn't find any system to make screen recording:

• Alt + Ctrl + Maj + R doesn't work
• long press on on button doesn't propose it
• status bar doesn't have it
• Kooha and others don't work
• ffmpeg don't work because it's Wayland

Subscribed.

Thank you all for your hard work.

Here's a link that'll work on your local instance: !postmarketos@lemmy.world

lemmy.ml was the initial lemmy instance and served us well for several years. In a recent team meeting we have decided to move to the more generic https://lemmy.world/ instance 🙂

"Overall, this isn't immune to scope creep towards surveillance" in your original post sums up my fears.

As soon as the majority of population goes digital-only, the nice privacy properties can be thrown out of the window, because there will be no alternative. What will you do, claim you're too old for a phone ID? But you just used the previous one without any problems.

Also another relevant source, there was a track about digital wallets at FOSDEM 2025. https://archive.fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/wallets/

I cannot remember the last time i send an SMS

Thanks for the input. Are there concrete parts of the EUDI design that's fascistic or just the whole thing?

There's certainly bad ways to do a digital ID like in the UK where it looks like the design "phones home", see EFF link above. However, the EUDI relies on cryptographically signed certificates and a Certificate Authority chain of trust. Whether you're offline/online your phone would only present cryptographically signed files for authentication. Quote: "Finally, measures are taken to prevent Users from being tracked by Relying Parties, PID Providers, or Attestation Providers."

As mentioned I'm already forced to use a couple of identification apps on Android. An alternative for me would be to have a twin sim setup and leave my proprietary phone at home and roam around with my PostmarketOS phone instead. That works fine. But might make it harder to recruit new users.

Finally I'll say that I agree we shouldn't blindly trust the government.

I would be very happy to point at my phone and say it isn't able to run their facist app, so please don't

Here in Norway we need to use a MinID app to login to various public services, but it is only available in the proprietary app stores for iOS and Android.

Most of banking services in Scandinavia requires a proprietary app called BankID which is co-owned by several banks. Sadly this app is also only available in proprietary app stores.

Apps such as these create a big switching cost for users who want to move to PostmarketOS. Incidentally, EU launched the Digital Markets Act to create more competition amongst platforms including iOS and Android. But it remains to be seen how or if the DMA will affect usage of the aforementioned apps and the EUDI. If the EUDI becomes a trusted authentication method for public services and bank services I could throw proprietary app stores in the bin.

It'd be great to have it, although I already have physical documents, so idk... I can just use those. Does not even require charging batteries.

Maybe others will have more use for that.

@glitchingI used a pre-built image as it was my first attempt. I did try the Plasma Mobile and the Ubuntu touch versions, then stuck with phosh for now. But I might do another flash to try more things. (Always a bit reluctant to delete the progress I made before... 😅) I'll have a look at Mobian too!

did you use a prebuilt image or went the pmbootstrap route?

you can also try mobian, installs super easy. I find it easier to get around in as I don't have to use the awkward alpine structure. I swap em every couple months or so to be up to date on progress.

@JustVikI'm stil on a full Google Android phone as my daily driver for now. But it's another step towards reducing my reliance on "big tech".So far the only thing that doesn't seem to work is sending SMS messages. (Recieving works fine 🙄) Thanks for the encouragement!

Congratulations. You're not weird. I more weird than you I use postmarketos on very old Xiaomi Redmi 2. Because calls, messages, and the mobile internet works on it. This is convenient if you already know and are used to working with Linux on a PC.

@ollieparanoid wow, I didn't know pmOS had a podcast. Thanks for sharing this :)

Link to the episode: https://cast.postmarketos.org/episode/46-Summer-events-special/

Thank you. I did not know where to report it, but now I have.

It's not just the feed, but all wiki history-related functionality. I guess https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/wiki/-/issues is the place to report this.

But why would they do that?

I can still see the changes, but it gets kinds hard to follow and I don't want to write my own scraper just to have a feed again.

I get it. What I mean is that by the message, it appears to be an intentional locking down of the feed.

I've used it for a long time and it worked fine, then it broke around two weeks ago, all of a sudden.

Doesn't appear just broken, specially as the link you shown carries no account identifier (e.g. token):