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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 30/09/2026

I have now submitted for inclusion #Budgie Desktop from @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social to @aerynos.com 🥳 I fully expect that it will undergo thorough review and there'll be some fixes I need to do (new to packaging for #aerynOS specifically), but we're closer to the finish line!

Screenshot of budgie-desktop pull request against the aerynOS recipes repository on GitHub

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 28/09/2026

I've now updated the #Budgie Desktop stack to 10.10.3 in #Fedora 46 (rawhide). Will sanity check it on the nightly ISO and assuming all looks good, I'll merge it into Fedora 45 tomorrow and check if I need to file any exceptions to get it landed for the release.

Screenshot of Fedora Updates System (bodhi) with the various packages of budgie desktop (and externals like pocillo-gtk-theme) as "stable" in Fedora 46 rawhide.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 15/09/2026

I know quite a few folks have been asking for it and well, here it is (coming soon). #Budgie Desktop packaged up and running on #aerynOS. Budgie 10.10.3 is right around the corner, so I'll be holding off on submitting it until we ship that within the next couple weeks.

Budgie Desktop shown running on a ThinkPad T15p, with Budgie Control Center open to its About page; Konsole is running with neofetch, moss, and labwc versions specified, and Budgie's Raven is open.

Picture taken directly from the front.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 06/08/2026

Just a nice picture of some rowan berries (pihlajanmarja). #plants #nature #photography Shot on my Nikon Z6 III with a Tamron 35-100mm F2.8.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 30/07/2026

Not bad for just a bit over a day across YouTube and MakerTube! Especially given how rarely I post content 😄

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 26/07/2026

Deep in the edit of my #Jolla Phone 2 review. Sooooon (TM). #SailfishOS

Picture showing my desk, in a warm and dark lighting. Primary screen shows Davinci Resolve with the edit panel opening, editing a clip. On screen to its right shows Obsidian with script. On screen to its left shows macOS open with Finder with some Davinci Resolve Proxy folder listing.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 22/07/2026

Someone made a really great, native Sailfish OS app for Immich and it inspired me to finally get it set up on my home server. Really handy for automatic photo and video backup! Immich and this app are really great pieces of kit. #JollaPhone #SailfishOS

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 21/07/2026

Not bad for a "camera slider" being...an IKEA table with the camera sitting on another piece of wood...being manually pushed across the table 😁 On editing side, I used Resolve's "Optical Flow" retiming and "Enhanced Better" motion estimation, as well as "similarity" mode stabilization #JollaPhone

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

Various songs for the "TOHs" (The Other Half) of the Jolla Phone 2: Snow White, Inari Blue, Kaamos Black, Orange.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

Special Inari Blue “TOH” (The Other Half)

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

President & CEO of Commodore International joined to talk about Sailfish OS on the Callback!

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

Antti Saarnio and Sami Pienimaki from Jolla

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

It seems very much in the spirit of the Sailfish OS community that someone would take apart their Jolla Phone 2 live on the terrace of the venue. Successful teardown and rebuilt, fortunately for them!

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

Some folks like @setok.bsky.social just couldn't wait to switch SIMs to their Jolla Phone 2.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

Saw myself on the big screen in the center. Apparently I was also in the airport, around Helsinki, and videos pre-installed on the J2.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

Huge queue of hundreds of attendees that wrapped around the square for the Jolla Phone 2 Launch Day event.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 09/07/2026

The #Jolla Phone 2 launch event was an absolutely incredible experience yesterday. I had the chance to meet so many lovely people, engage in many great conversations including with folks that will be first-time #SailfishOS users.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 29/06/2026

Nothing like fresh rain to wake a garden up! Shot on a Canon R50 with a Helios 44-3. #photography #nature #flowers

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 04/06/2026

Life hard at work in the early summer, enjoying all the warmth and long sunlight hours ☀️ #photography #nature #flowers Shot on Canon R50 with Helios 44-3.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 24/05/2026

Test shots with the Helios 44 at f/2 (snails) and f/2.8 (dandelion and tree). Absolutely love the bokeh and swirl! I mean, that is half the reason why I and everyone else gets the lens after all...

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 22/05/2026

I wish more buildings looked as quirky and colorful as those near Pikku Huopalahti Park. #photography #finland Test shots on my #Canon R50 with a Helios 44-3 lens.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 15/04/2026

I had the opportunity to meet up with #Jolla again to talk about (and see!) how the new Jolla Phone is progressing, including new iteration that is using tooling and not hand-made. Write-up at forum.sailfishos.org/t/first-impr... and a couple more photos if you're interested! #SailfishOS

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 29/03/2026

After 8 iterations and a bunch of shim prints, finally have my Ender 3 V3 SE bed almost perfectly level. Still have a glass bed on the way, which should fix the center being lower, but the deviation is just slightly higher than my typical layer size (0.12mm) so very happy with these results.

Screenshot of my bed mesh showing:

Max [135.0, 85.5] of 0.003 mm
Min [30.0, 215.0] of -0.135 mm
Range of 0.138 mm

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 27/03/2026

Just posted my first impressions of the CNC sample of the new Jolla Phone (2026) that I was able to get my hands on yesterday. It's in written form on the Sailfish forums if you'd like to check it out! forum.sailfishos.org...

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 01/03/2026

What a work competition does to someone. Starts today, figured I'd condition a bit beforehand. Aiming for 30k steps (might hit it today once I give my feet some rest), then I gotta start hitting the gym since there is only so fast one can go on a walking pad in an apartment!

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 25/02/2026

My Ferris plushie from ferris.rs arrive today 🦀 It is already trying to convert my Gopher! High quality, reasonably sized and priced, and came with some stickers. What more does one need? #RustLang

Ferris mascot of Rust language, sitting in front of a faux leaf backdrop on a black cloth cover. In front of its claws is a short stack of Ferris stickers

Ferris trying to hand a sticker to the Golang gopher (plushie)

Happy family of plushies: Plushtodon from Mastodon, Gopher from Golang, Ferris from Rust

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 31/01/2026

Budgie 10.10.1, Budgie Control Center 2.1.0, Budgie Desktop View 10.10.1 now in #Fedora rawhide. Default introduction panel in Fedora will promote Bluejay (developed by @emaddock.bsky.social) for bluetooth management.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 20/01/2026

Got a refurbished ThinkCenter M920t (i7-9700 and a tiny GT730). Figured I'd throw my Intel ARC GPU in it and use it as a dedicated streaming PC (stream Budgie 11 dev). TIL about 10-pin Lenovo ATX connector (oof), bought a 24pin adapter and waiting for that. Dual PSUs in meantime.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 18/01/2026

Been going through the Mir docs, building out the next iteration of the @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Magpie compositor. Just in a matter of a few hours we went from no compositor to one that is able to run budgie-panel. Looking forward to continuing to iterate on it! #Linux #OpenSource

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 18/01/2026

Small beginnings: #Budgie 11 panel in Qt6 and QML, leveraging LayerShellQt. The code will looking nothing like this probably in a matter of days, but fun to iterate nonetheless!

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 14/01/2026

First pics of actual J2 hardware released by #Jolla on their forums, it looks really slick! Looking forward to it! forum.sailfishos.org/t/jolla-phon... #SailfishOS

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 03/01/2026

Took some work and testing, but I have CI/CD validated using the forge that all the @buddiesofbudgie.bsky.social Budgie 11 bits will be on (as well as something else I'm cookin up) 🚀

Screenshot of Zen Browser with two webpages opened side-by-side in split view. Left panel shows the CI/CD with a successful build of budgie-desktop-services (shows cmake / ninja output), right panel shows the repo on the Forgejo with a green check mark next to latest commit.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 23/11/2025

Bundle of new and updated packages just landed into Fedora 44 rawhide in prep for rest of #Budgie 10.10-preview.1 related updates (budgie-desktop, budgie-session, budgie-desktop-defaults, comps updating). Just waiting on approval for Change Proposal to cook up all the rest! ❤️

Screenshot of Fedora Bodhi showing gtk-session-lock, gtklock, budgie-control-center, budgie-desktop-view, budgie-desktop-services, and budgie-display-configurator package updates shown as "stable" (in rawhide)

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 10/10/2025

Battlefield 6 time here we goooo. Queue going down quick too, down 150k from when I took the screenshot.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 08/10/2025

Ah yes, I 100% remember this song from the 90s that came out in... _checks notes_ 2016. Thanks YouTube Music /s

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 17/09/2025

Doing an app release at work and got a new warning from Google about a "significant drop" in supported devices. Google and I have very different opinions on what "significant" means. The ONE device? An x86 Android 8.0 Automotive emulator from 2017, which targets the Intel Atom Z8000 from 2015 🤦‍♂️

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 14/08/2025

Never had the original #Pebble, but really excited for the Pebble Time 2. Will certainly wait to see if anyone in the #SailfishOS community adds it to Amazfish (I would if time permitted) before I pick one up, but great to see a revival of a classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcPz...

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 10/08/2025

Nothing fancy, just some pics of some cute geese on my way back from "Helsinga Medieval Day" fare. #photography #naturephotos Shot on a #canon📷 R50 with a Canon EF 100-300mm f/4.5-5.6 USM.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 07/08/2025

Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art. Helsinki, #Finland. #photography Shot on a #Canon R50 with a SIRUI 35mm F1.8 1.33x anamorphic lens

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 05/08/2025

Neighbors. Helsinki, #Finland. #photography Shot on a #Canon R50 with a SIRUI 35mm F1.8 1.33x anamorphic lens

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 04/08/2025

Flatiron House, Helsinki #Finland #photography Shot on a #Canon R50 with a SIRUI 35mm F1.8 1.33x anamorphic lens

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 31/07/2025

When the issue tracker your work uses is down...

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 29/07/2025

#Prague Photos Day 11: Probably the last of the Prague photos I'll be posting. This one is of the roof of the dome in the National Museum! Camera: #Canon R50 / Lens: 18-45mm F4.5-6.3 #photography

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 28/07/2025

Camera Rig v1 is complete ✅ Canon R50. SIRUI 35mm F1.8 anamorphic lens. Viltrox DC-550 Pro monitor. Sennheiser MKE400 mic. Neewer PG002 matte box. K&F ND8 and ND64 filters. Neewer CA008 handle. Ulanzi CU01 camera cooler. PALO V-mount battery. Smallrig Mini side handle. Smallrig 4k slim adapter.

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 28/07/2025

My SIRUI 35mm F1.8 Anamorphic (1.33x) lens just arrived and wow, what a beauty. I can't wait to put it through its paces! Lots of exciting ideas for it. #photography #cinematography

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 27/07/2025

#Prague Photos Day 10: Entrance hall and gallery of the National Museum. Camera: #Canon R50 / Lens: 18-45mm F4.5-6.3 #photography

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Joshua Strobl @joshuastrobl.social · 26/07/2025

#Prague Photos Day 9: Looking out towards Pařížská Street and Čechův Bridge. Camera: #Canon R50 / Lens: 18-45mm F4.5-6.3 #photography

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