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Sailfish OS: Shake Torch

An app that sounds really good then showed me after a few days that it also has its downsides. It’s about Shake Torch. This is a Sailfish OS app that turns on the camera light when you shake the phone. This works not bad at all (you can see it well in this video here): Only... it works "always". So, for example, even if you are in a hurry and have the phone in your pocket, or you walk with the smartphone in hand and PureMaps / the navigator ...

Sailfish OS: How to use all 4 cameras of the Sony Xperia 10 III

Users of SailfishOS on the Sony Xperia 10 III have surely already noticed it and at least wondered or even got annoyed that they can only use one of the 3 cameras on the back of the smartphone and the selfie camera on the other side. This is probably due to a limitation of the access options via Sony’s driver, which only allows two different camera stacks. BUT, there is now a workaround for this, which you can activate and deactivate with ...

3d printing: mini spare part for my car

At some point, a small part of my car was simply gone. Maybe the workshop forgot to reassemble it after a procedure, maybe it fell off - who knows. In the end it doesn’t matter, but it annoyed me for a long time and even the authorized dealer couldn’t tell me where to get it back or reorder it himself. So today I looked at the part and thought: Then I print it myself. So that it really looks exactly the same, I probably still have to get ...

The future of gastronomy?

Have you been to McDonalds lately? I haven’t been there in a long time and now I’ve been there again and the short answer is: If you have not been there for a long time, I understand very well. How do I suddenly get the idea to report about it here? Isn’t it mostly about 3d printing, SailfishOS and the like? Yes, and every now and then it’s also about why I use Sailfish OS, for example, and don’t willy-nilly go to a local electronics ...

Sailfish OS: What is MicroG?

In some cases, Sailfish OS requires the ability to use Android apps. Most of them can be run relatively easily with Alien Dalvic, and they work just fine. However, some check very carefully that Google’s Play Services are installed on the device, and you usually don’t want that as a normal user of SFOS for privacy reasons. MicroG offers a free and independent alternative to the closed and proprietary solutions of Google Services. It is ...

Valentine’s Day: A heart for 3d printing

As a small gift for Valentine’s Day 2023 I printed this pendant and gave it away to colleagues. A small gift from the 3D printer, which I had to first provide with new spare parts, because when printing he just wanted to print only half and then pulled the filament no longer clean. This can happen if the attachment on the extended, adjustable feeder is broken or too much abrasion occurs. Therefore: If it should not work again with the ...