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Patrick

@ppulfer@mastodon.ie

mastodon 4.6.6

🇵🇹/🇨🇭 living in 🇮🇪 #ireland

I love travel, partying, coding, and tech in general.

DJ, techie, and Linux enthusiast living in Cork, Ireland.

Open-Source advocate and proud homelabber!

Games I play: Star Citizen, Eve Online, RimWorld

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Joined April 10, 2024

Homepage:

https://patrick.pulfer.cloud

Matrix:

@ppulfer:matrix.org

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 23, 2026

Are there any known active Linux User Groups in Ireland? #ireland #linux #lug

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 22, 2026

Replying to @kdkorte@fosstodon.org

@kdkorte@fosstodon.org, right on the spot. Also, complain about being served adds on Windows?! The OS itself is an add-based trojan horse.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 16, 2026

Replying to @kirschner@mastodon.social

@kirschner@mastodon.social @tobias @anaghz@social.tchncs.de, obligatory "But can it run Doom?"

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 16, 2026

Replying to @dansup@mastodon.social

@dansup@mastodon.social, it is a great website and I've been sharing with the peeps to get them over to us. One little thing that would be useful is to maybe show one or two examples of how to follow people from different servers and/or apps.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 10, 2026

Replying to @mausmalone@mastodon.social

@mausmalone@mastodon.social, yeah, Gnome has its quirks. I still love the design of gnome though and can't get enough. Combined with libadwaita, you have really great and stunningly looking desktop and apps imo.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 10, 2026

Replying to @mausmalone@mastodon.social

@mausmalone@mastodon.social, what app is this? Those tabs don't look like #gnome at all to me. This is what I have on my gnome desktop:

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 10, 2026

I'm still daily-driving my #flx1s from @furilabs@fosstodon.org for over a month and have some good learnings about #mobilelinux #linuxphone #linux. Ask me anything.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @veronica@explains.social

@veronica@explains.social, good explanation too: "(...) received a number of pull requests featuring obvious LLM-generated content. So far, these have all demonstrated non-understanding of either Libera Chat’s requirements or the codebases being contributed-to."

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jun 30, 2026

Replying to @FediVideo@social.growyourown.services

@FediVideo@social.growyourown.services, this example, together with being open-source, is why I love the Fediverse so much!

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 16, 2026

Replying to @FolksVelo@mas.to

@FolksVelo@mas.to, a noble "idea" and can be implemented in residential areas but I'm cities where you need to commute and get goods and services it becomes a productivity killer and increases cost of living exponentially.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 09, 2026

Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social, where can I vote?

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 07, 2026

Replying to @wilhelm_arcturus@mas.to

@wilhelm_arcturus@mas.to, the end of a "CCPlease" memes era. :(

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

Replying to @hyde@lazybear.social

@hyde@lazybear.social, I confess I've mostly used Amazon but for other stuff https://nasstore.eu/ and https://www.senetic.ie/ has been great experience.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

Replying to @ppulfer@mastodon.ie

Part 4 (really cool stuff):

Mount your NAS folders via fstab works fine, so you don't need any 3rd party apps to access your NAS like Synology.
#bazzite's Bazaar app store works well and looks amazing, giving you a section with curated mobile apps.
Using Jellyfin? Gelly and Delfin, both available from flathub are cool to stream movies and music.
Pipeline is great YouTube on mobile, also available from flathub. You can download directly or use Video Downloader

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

Replying to @ppulfer@mastodon.ie

Current apps I use:

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

Replying to @ppulfer@mastodon.ie

Part 3 (the honeymoon period is over, so sharing things that still needs work from my perspective):

Navigation is a hit and miss, some apps work, some not. While GPS works, most of the time it does not pinpoint my location but gives me the city I'm in.
I can't get a single Google app working with MicroG sadly, I really miss Android Auto, so I've been using an old android phone on hotspot for the car.
Portfolio files app does not display thumbnails of pictures.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · May 04, 2026

Replying to @ryan@hcommons.social

@ryan@hcommons.social @furilabs@fosstodon.org, I agree that navigation has been a painful experience so far. It is a hit and miss and I'm not able to get Android Auto working at all since Google Services are not automatically installed.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 29, 2026

Replying to @opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net

@opensourceopenmind@social.vivaldi.net, for me, receiving calls when WhatsApp Android app is open, so I assume other apps work as well. What I've learned is to keep Whatsapp always open to not miss notifications or calls.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @mosgaard@uddannelse.social

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social, no. Android apps run inside a container called #waydroid. For example, instead of using Google Play Services (that includes all the telemetry/tracking), it uses something called MicroG, allowing you to run apps like youtube which requires some shared libraries.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @mosgaard@uddannelse.social

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social, regular Linux and android apps. Android run side-by-side as if they are native, giving you the best of both worlds.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @ppulfer@mastodon.ie

Part 2:

You can copy/paste from and to the android container, which is great if you use a password manager like Bitwarden.
Camera works fine
I'm able to receive calls when the phone is on sleep (I'm genuinely surprised)
Flatpak enabled out of the box. The Bazaar store works great (has great mobile section!)
Has hardware killswitches for Camera, SIM and Microphone.
Bluetooth, Hotspot, Wifi, 4G in Ireland works fine.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 25, 2026

A very quick mini review of running a #flx1s by @furilabs@fosstodon.org as a daily driver:

Part 1
- There is an additional button called "assistant", which lets you configure quick press, long and double press, handy for quick shortcuts like screenshot and camera
- Android container comes with MicroG and #froid and can start automatically (amazing to receive whatsapp notifications).
- GPS works for the android container, great for navigation with Organic Maps!

#linux #phone #mobilelinux

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 25, 2026

Replying to @mosgaard@uddannelse.social

@mosgaard@uddannelse.social, has been great. So far covers 98% of my needs, from phone, camera, whatsapp calling, music, etc. Discovering new apps is fun.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 23, 2026

Replying to @nixCraft@mastodon.social

@nixCraft@mastodon.social, THIS!

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 23, 2026

Hello from my new daily driver, FLX1s. : )

#flx1s #furiphone #mobilelinux #linux #phone

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @furilabs@fosstodon.org

@furilabs, niiice. I bought a FLX1s recently and should arrive (hopefully!!!!) this week still. 🤩

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Apr 21, 2026

Can't wait for the new #ubuntu release. My homelab and development laptop is ready for the goodness!

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Mar 29, 2026

Replying to @haeckerfelix@mastodon.social

@haeckerfelix, I read every blog post, as I love it how thebcomunity highlights celebrates cool and interesting GNOME developments and people contributing with their projects and/or ideas. Thanks and keep showing us all the cool projects! #gnome #linux #opensource #dev

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Jun 27, 2025

Replying to @quillmatiq@mastodon.social

@quillmatiq@mastodon.social, full-time office for just spreadsheets and emails after we spread outwards from cities during pandemic is a brilliant strategy to create natural attrition.

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Patrick @ppulfer@mastodon.ie · Mar 19, 2025

Replying to @EvolutionGnome@floss.social

@EvolutionGnome, awesome, are there release notes we could follow?

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