Some Chapters have been split off to their own pages: Applications and Tweaking. The legendary N900. I was surprised that a sufficient number is still being sold on various auctioning platforms, and they can be had cheaply - definitely under 100€, though mine was quite a bit cheaper, and in really...

This cost me several hours of my life, so I'm putting it here never to be forgotten: To improve performance, Firefox 69 and later will disable loading of userChrome.css and userContent.css by default. Your CSS customizations are not going away; all you will need to do is set the pref toolkit.legacy...

My first AUR package! I assume you are somewhat familiar with makepkg, git and the process of creating packages under Arch Linux. Once your PKGBUILD is created, works as desired and the package builds, is installable and works, this is how you continue: Preparation, Initial Upload create the .SRCI...

...WIP... Since I wrote this, Leste has seen a few updates. Please check it out. Original OS (Maemo 5 a.k.a. Fremantle) OS version is already 21.2011.38(PR1.3.1). I will reset the phone (Settings => Top menu: Restore deivce, Clear settings). Lock code is 12345. Maemo Leste First steps in trying t...

The goal is to install Maemo Leste which, according to this page is also available for the N9. Possibly also the N9 image from here. In any case, getting Ubiboot to work appears to be the first step. I am using the instructions from the swagman/juice Readme since they seem to be more suitable for Li...

Prequel Before this I had regular LineageOS installed on the same device. But after an unwelcome manual upgrade from 15.1 to 16 - I had to install from scratch, there's no upgrade procedure - it broke down after another nightly update that would have required additional steps (but the updater app di...

Conky is good for displaying things on the desktop. But it has a few disadvantages: There's no option to continuously show the output of a command (or file), like tail -f or dmesg -w, and update conky's output as that output grows. [X] Some internal conky commands measuring system resources are bug...

In my ongoing efforts to get rid of Android, I stumbled upon an older device on our national ebay equivalent: A Nokia N9. A little history: Nokia was great in the mobile phone market, but it took some wrong turns in the smartphone sector and got outcompeted. Microsoft played an active role in it - ...