I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer. Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.

I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer. Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.
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squincybones@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 292d (4 replies)

Is this spam?

GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org · 13 pts · 292d (1 reply)

I think it's just that Mastodon posts in Lemmy are weird.

Toots don't have titles so it just duplicates the content, and then you have a mess of @ and # tags that don't make sense in Lemmy.

Cross-ecosystem federation is cool but also leaves a lot to be desired.

onlinepersona@programming.dev · 4 pts · 291d

Probably because there is no separation between title and content. If this had been

I almost succeeded to set my Librem 5 phone to work as UVC camera for the computer

Things you can almost do yourself on Linux phone are so much fun then propriety app that do them on android.

The first line would've been taken as the title, just like in a commit message.

bhyoram@todon.eu · 0 pts · 292d (1 reply)

@squincybones How is interesting experiment on free HW and free SW phone a "spam" ?

squincybones@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 291d

Some others shared that this is likely a federated mastadon post and that the formatting doesn't get translated well. To me, this looks like a couple of short comments with links to 3 communities, but no specific content related to the comments. Here's a screenshot:

No offense intended.

rikudou@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 292d (2 replies)

Oh yeah, I love playing with Linux phones. I once created a container, installed Proton bridge in it and enjoyed having my mails in the native phone app.

bhyoram@todon.eu · 1 pts · 291d (1 reply)
rikudou@lemmings.world · 1 pts · 291d

Congrats!

Hammerheart@programming.dev · 1 pts · 291d (1 reply)

You 'almost' succeeded? So, it didn't work?

bhyoram@todon.eu · 3 pts · 291d

@Hammerheart at the time of writing that post I almost succeeded. Sometime after that I did succeed and shared screencast. I'm still improving it and considering writing a Rust applications for that.