Kabouik

@florhizome has packaged nbfc-linux for Guix in 2022, but documentation is missing as to how to configure and run it in Guix, and unfortunately they went MIA since.

nbfc seems to expect working only with configuration files in its own installation folder, and the service nbfc_linux cannot be fed directly with a configuration file: the configuration file has to be set and then applied with nbfc config first, before nbfc_linux can use it. This won't work in Guix, because nbfc will try to do so in the installation folder, which is read-only.

This documentation explains that the way to get nbfc_service to load a configuration file when the package is installed in an immutable read-only folder, like /gnu/store/*nbfc-linux*/, is to create a custom nbfc.json somewhere that conta

Dual-booting Droidian and SailfishOS on the F(x)tec Pro1

Author: kabouik but all credits to g7

Known issues related to dual-booting, as of 2023-09-10:

Switching from Droidian to SailfishOS can be done directly on the phone, but from SailfishOS to Droidian requires a computer.
Nothing else so far, yay.

Foreword

postmarketOS and mainline kernel on F(x)tec Pro¹

Below are the steps required to flash postmarketOS (port made by Danct12 based on earlier work by Notkit) and mainline kernel (work done by Kholk and the github.com/somainline group) on the Pro1 msm8998:

2022-03-10. As of today, Danct12's port has not been merged yet, hence there are a couple extra steps to manually apply patches to pmaports. Beware that this is all work in progress and there will be bugs and missing functionality. 2022-03-12. device-fxtec-qx1000-nonfree-firmware added to the port, meaning support for model, WLAN and GPU.

pip3 install --user pmbootstrap
pmbootstrap init and choose edge and whatever device (I chose qemu and aarch64, but it should not matter, we'll redo it later).
cd /path/to/work/directory/you/chose/above/cache_git/pmaports

F(x)tec is using the Pro1x as a way to introduce new keyboard layouts, but we noticed the latest proposal on IGG doesn't seem to address the biggest issue with the original Pro¹ shifted qwerty layout: missing slash/question-mark key, creating problems in all OS's and necessity for OS-specific workarounds. Therefore we hope F(x)tec uses this opportunity to not only un-shift but to also improve functionality, especially as alternate OS's like Linux are now clearly targeted.

Fig. 1. Unshifted qwerty layout shown in the Pro1x campaign.

The community quickly showed interest in this topic, with more than 150 posts by users from multiple OS's and about 3k views in just a few days. After one week of vivid discussions to weigh the costs and benefits of each suggestion users came up with, we think we've finally agreed on layout proposals we believe would significantly improve the user

	#!/usr/bin/env python3
	#
	# End-to-end helper to:
	# - dump ACPI tables
	# - extract & decompile DSDT
	# - bump DefinitionBlock revision
	# - insert Externals inside top-level braces
	# - inject PTPL._OFF() workaround into TPL1._DSM in Scope(_SB.PC00.I2C0)
	# - recompile AML (uppercase DSDT.aml) inside working dir
	# - package minimal cpio at /boot/acpi_override.cpio

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# This script will install Cutie or Phosh on a device
	# already running Droidian. This is an alternative to
	# using one of the Cutie Droidian images that need to
	# be flashed.
	# Use at your own risk, odds are it will break things.
	# Authors: Kabouik (@bouic), Erik (@eriki73)
	# https://t.me/CutieShellProject

	wl(){
	local ssid
	local conn

	nmcli device wifi rescan > /dev/null
	ssid=$(nmcli device wifi list \| tail -n +2 \| grep -v '^ \B--\B' \| fzf -m \| sed 's/^ \*//' \| awk '{print $1}')

	if [ "x$ssid" != "x" ]; then
	# check if the SSID has already a connection setup
	conn=$(nmcli con \| grep "$ssid" \| awk '{print $1}' \| uniq)

	! model
	pc101 Generic 101-key PC
	pc102 Generic 102-key (Intl) PC
	pc104 Generic 104-key PC
	pc105 Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
	dell101 Dell 101-key PC
	latitude Dell Latitude series laptop
	dellm65 Dell Precision M65
	everex Everex STEPnote
	flexpro Keytronic FlexPro