Intro Disclaimer I: This worked for me. Chances are it will work for you, too, but this is not a copy-paste tutorial. Stay vigilant, messing up will be on you. Make a backup before you begin. Maybe you should also know how to perform recovery. Nota bene: "Turn the phone OFF" = press the power button...

Process, pitfalls The phone will alert you that there's an update. Go to Settings => Sailfish OS Updates. As always, backup first. Download the update and choose to install it. Once again it complains that I don't have enough space on the root filesystem. This time I decide to bite the bullet and...

I always thought that Xplanet is one of those ancient X apps that work despite being totally outdated, with aliased edges and overall painful graphics. Turns out I was more than half wrong. It's derived from xearth which has been around since 1993. Xplanet itself seems to have been around since at ...

This article has a parent article. It contains some preliminaries to the topics here. Doing Things on the Command Line MTP (the same protocol Android devices use) will expose the /home/defaultuser folder to the connecting computer, both to graphical and command line applications. But it hides some...

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Assuming Remote connection is enabled in Settings -> Developer tools, and works. Recent versions of Sailfish OS (currently 4.4.0.58) use a socket that listens on port 22, and start sshd (to be precise, a per-connection sshd@.service) whenever someone knocks. Pretty neat, probably saves some res...

An incomplete timeline of what I read - mostly contributions to various forum threads. Read books and stories (audio formats) are included here. Apr 24 2022 I found two Carl Hiaasen novels on a give-away shelf. Boy was I happy! I must've read 90% of his novels many years back. They are what is calle...

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