I have returned, this time with a fully working fingerprint sensor!
But TheMightyCat i hear you say, we already had a working fingerprint sensor made by nick!
And you’re right, that’s why i specified fully while maybe nick’s one is also fully working he doesn’t show enrollment or a negative control, so either way it isn’t confirmed or not confirmed from his video alone.
Detecting if any finger is on the sensor is the easy part, enrolling and checking if its the right finger is the hard part.
But while it has taken longer then i would have liked it is now fully working!
And it even has a party trick!
As you can see in the video, using my index finger does a regular unlock, my middle finger unlocks and opens the camera, and my ring finger is a duress and removes the super secret file. (the removal of the file is instant, the delay comes from updating the desktop entry)
this is done trough fingerprintd, for root scripts this file is used:
/etc/fingerprintd/actions.conf
right-index-finger /etc/fingerprintd/duress.sh
While for user scripts its published on the net.catcrafts.Fingerprintd1.FingerMatched dbus
expect this to land in fp6-img somewhere this weekend, i was already fighting for my life trying to make the recording and don’t have the mental energy left to publish it.
Recording something that requires 2 hands is the biggest pain in the ass ever, these were all the attempts:
ALSO I HATE TEE. THERE IS NOTHING MORE ANTI USER THEN A CHIP WHERE THE MANUFACTURER CAN GO “erm akshually ERROR_ELF_SIGNATURE_ERROR”
See this girl? This is Mia.
She has hacked this computer and jailbroken its TEE
Be like Mia.
hey look the sun has come up, time to go to bed.
News roundup
imsd issues
Thanks very much to 2 members of the community for their patience of me asking them to run scripts, i’m trying to be the least of a bother possible.
If you find any issues with imsd please let me know! the current known issues are:
No call audio on carriers that only support VoLTE (alteast that is the hypothesis for this issue)
Getting called from a landline doesn’t work.
I’m working hard to fix these issues, they will hopefully be fixed somewhere next week.
catcrafts.net shop
Ive been thinking hard about this, but there is no business case to be made to sell pre flashed units on my website, its more expensive for the people buying them, it puts a huge administrative burden onto me. and for people that want to finacially support me its much better for the both of us to purchase a unit at your local retailer and then donate on the website instead of purchasing as then it isn’t taxed because its a donation, while if its a sale it is taxed. so i don’t think im going to do this unless anyone has a good case for it.
RISC-V phone
This project has been low priority while working on the FP6 but i think i have settled on a chip, its probably going to be the spacemiT k1, not the best, but the best for this purpose. Finding a risc-v chip with a low power consumption and good peformance is slim pickings, and while the k1 is not exaclty great its as far as i know the pest peformance per watt.
What’s next
Just the camera and laser rangefinder, then the fp6 is officially 100% hardware complete
Mental health
Don’t want to make this too personal but it’s important, take care of yourselves out there.
Bonus question
One lemmy thing i don’t understand
According to the metrics !linuxphones@lemmy.ml should be more active then here, but that place is completely deserted!
Are all those subscribers just dead accounts?
Amazing work. Donated to the project. This is exactly what we need.
Thank you!
Just to clear up any confusion I am not associated with postmarketOS if that’s what you ment with the project, they definitely deserve the financial support for their amazing work but my donation page is on my website at: https://catcrafts.net/shop/donation
Yep, that’s what I used. (I also donate regularly to postmarketOS).
Out of curiosity, are you cooperating with postmarketOS or Fairphone on this in any way? I’m wondering why they didn’t manage to do anything like this with all the resources they have? I assumed it’s simply not possible because of locked drivers and that we will have to wait for something like the next version of Pineophone to get fully working Linux phone.
Sort of, i have contact with Luca Weiss via email mostly on the linux mailing list, he is part of the pmos core team and works at fairphone but i don’t have offcial contact with both organizations. I tried to become a fairphone partner but thus far they haven’t responded and i don’t think they will. Which is quite a shame.
I don’t have the knowledge to make a conclusion on that so i won’t, but in keep in mind i’m not starting from 0, the fact that it even boots linux in the first place is work done by Luca.
Unless its cryptographically signed its always possible, it just becomes alot harder. Fairphone is pretty good in this aspect as they publish alot of usefull sources.
It is a shame. I guess they won’t care unless this project gets actual users that can push for this. Let’s hope once this is fully working people will start migrating. I sure will try.
Well many people have said in the comments here that they are buying an fairphone because of my work, so I would assume that’s an interesting business proposition for them then right? But apperantly not I guess then?