• 8 Posts
  • 64 Comments
Joined 1 年前
cake
Cake day: 2024年2月3日

help-circle
  • I already have an invite flow that users will arrive at and go through when signing up, now I want to let users create invites for other users. That page does not mention anything about that. It seems to be about adding a flow that asks user for details such as an email address and then they get their account.

    In my case users have already gone through that and want to invite someone else.

    With invitations, you can either email an enrollment invitation URL to one or more specific recipients with pre-defined credentials, or you can email a URL to users, who can then log in and define their own credentials.

    I already have enrollment invitation URLs. Just not automatically. I wrote a script that uses the API for that purpose.

    The docs even mention this about the flow:

    Enrollment (2 Stage)

    Flow: right-click here and save the file.

    Sign-up flow for new users, which prompts them for their username, email, password and name. No verification is done. Users are also immediately logged on after this flow.






  • Curious how well existing Android devices with Linux support fare currently.

    Better than the Pinephone. See my other post on this thread where I talk about my Mobian port to the Pixel 3a and click the link for some more detailed info on how well it works.

    Oh and the Pinephone is just way too slow and the thermal design is not really good and it also does have issues in other parts of the hardware. It’s not a good phone, it’s a passable development device that easily allows to turn off things such as Bluetooth.

    And… an old Android phone such as the Pixel 3a is just a lot cheaper and runs way faster with a far better battery life.


  • I’ve been recently porting Mobian to the Pixel 3a and posting about it here*. Now, Mobian is close to being ready, but is not yet. I’ve been using it as a daily driver for a few months now, but it is not what most people looking for a well-working phone would want, currently. If you want to try a well supported device now, I suggest trying postmarketOS on the Pixel 3a perhaps, they’re a bit quicker than I am, mostly because more people are working on it.

    The Pixel 3a has recently been called one of the best supported Linux phones with a mainline kernel. Only issue right now is the camera not producing sharp photos, but they’re people working on the drivers in the kernel to improve on that.

    Other than that, I don’t really know what’s well supported, as I focus on what I have available here.

    * https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/19600671 Please note that this post is somewhat outdated and some of the issue are solved already.








  • It is to Android apps what WINE is to Windows programs, while Waydroid is to Android apps what something between Docker and a VM would be to server software.

    Actually, Waydroid is not too dissimilar from running, for example, an Ubuntu Desktop system in a Docker container on a Debian desktop system, just so you can use snap packages… Instead of installing snapd on Debian. (Not that I want snapd.)

    Waydroid is more like an Android container appliance that runs a full Android system, while ATL, as the name Android Translation Layer suggests, translates functions and API calls, used by Android apps, into the appropriate methods of doing things on a regular GNU/Linux system (in contrast to an Android Runtime/Linux system), thereby being much more efficient, more comfortable to use and having the potential of integrating into the system really well.



  • Yup. It definitely is now ready for everyday use, though there are still a few smaller issues I’ve got to fix. But nothing that stops me from using it now.

    The only thing special about the Pixel 3a is that I had it already. Maybe it is special in that it is now the smallest Linux phone that is supported by a mainline kernel AND which is actually usable as a phone (for some other phones audio does not work, for example). Some might call a headphone jack something special… or an eSIM, as there are not many Linux phones with an eSIM.

    To get involved, I recommend joining the Moban Development Matrix room: #mobian-dev:matrix.debian.social

    Pretty sure we can find something where skills in C would be helpful.