Joshua Strobl :verified:

🇫🇮 Software engineer living in Helsinki, Finland.
🛠️ Open source advocate.
:budgie: BDFL / Lead of Budgie Desktop & Buddies of Budgie - Buddies of Budgie (npub1sdr…838t).
:fedora: Creator of Fedora Budgie / Budgie Atomic spins. #linux #OpenSource #dev #fedi22

Website: https://joshuastrobl.com
GitHub: https://github.com/JoshStrobl
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/joshstrobl

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2026-06-26 21:36:39 UTC

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Done! Thank you to all those contributing to KDE software (apps and frameworks) ♥️ Your contributions to the open source ecosystem aren't forgotten (even by those that use/work on other desktop environments 😉)
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2026-06-08 20:21:08 UTC

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Improvements to parental controls for iOS, slider for level of transparency for liquid glass effect, surface level descriptions of optimization improvements to macOS, AI AI AI AI (mostly a rehash of their original announcement + using Gemini models).

2026-04-16 13:20:06 UTC

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Nordea and S-Pankki I believe work fine. Danske Bank's Mobiilipankki works but Danske ID does not, so you'll need a hardware token from Danske Bank (it is free). Not sure about Osuuspankki but there is a forum post that had a list of tested apps.

2026-04-15 18:51:14 UTC

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Couple more photos.
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2026-04-15 18:48:48 UTC

I had the opportunity to meet up with @npub1xrs…qupw again to talk about (and see!) how the new Jolla Phone is progressing, including new iteration that is using tooling and not hand-made.
The tolerances are really fantastic now. No gaps! The buttons and privacy switch felt firmer, with the power button now being a bit more recessed to make accidental presses harder.
Gone is the antenna tape, proper antennas are now around the device. Stronger battery shield. There were some design changes made to the interior (TOH2 side) to hopefully give any prospective TOH2 hardware designers in the community some more flexibility. I'll let Jolla dive into that since you never know if it'll evolve further beyond the iteration I saw.
The Other Half 2 cover is now using an orange resin and not just a white base + color being painted on. It looks _more_ orange as one might expect. TOH2 snaps firmly into place now thanks to improvements to the tolerances.
I'm really looking forward to July to get my hands on a finalized model!
#SailfishOS #Jolla #JollaPhone
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2026-02-08 06:00:05 UTC

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This from a few days back? https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zendesk-spam-wave-returns-floods-users-with-activate-account-emails/ Seen it happen a couple times now :\

2026-01-10 23:04:45 UTC

My god, what a journey to get Budgie 10.10 out the door.
I'm so glad it's mostly behind the team and we can focus on 11. I have tried to bring to a close Budgie 10 several times now. It's good that it is finally actually happening.

2026-01-10 20:49:11 UTC

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Thanks as always for your coverage. Much appreciated man! You're the best.

2025-12-07 11:38:27 UTC

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Yep, it's already hit the goal!

2025-11-18 20:10:27 UTC

In anticipation of #Budgie 10.10's release and shipping in @npub1hpw…cd0d #Fedora 44, I have just submitted a Change Proposal for its inclusion! I will be packaging up the components this week to go into rawhide 🚀
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Budgie_10.10
BIg thanks to @npub1gta…4zys for the help with the proposal 👏

2025-09-18 19:33:44 UTC

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It's @npub1sdr…838t not UB. The desktop environment is developed by Buddies of Budgie.
> At the moment, Budgie 10.9.3 is only available as source code, with no timeline for getting it added to standard repositories or included in distributions that default to the Budgie desktop environment.
It's actually already shipping with Fedora Budgie 43 Beta :)

2025-08-26 06:18:28 UTC

Fuck Google.
Remember folks, there are other options to Android besides just iOS. Sailfish OS exists. Plasma Mobile exists. PureOS exists.
They aren't going to provide the same level of experience. You won't be able to install apps that require more and more egregious attestation. You might even have to switch how you communicate and down the line as more developers bend the knee and turn on shit like Play Protect, change who you bank with or the services you buy.
And you know what? That's okay. I'm not a personal liberty absolutist by any means, but lines have to be drawn somewhere. It's my fucking device, I will use it how I want.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/08/google-will-block-sideloading-of-unverified-android-apps-starting-next-year/

2025-05-30 17:40:24 UTC

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Prague next week with wife, combining a nice trip for us and my attendance of @npub1hpw…cd0d Flock conference.
Next two weeks after I'll be trying to cram in lots of Budgie Desktop dev.

2025-05-30 17:22:08 UTC

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Happy Friday! It's "the weekend" until June 23rd for me, wooooo 🥳

2024-12-31 22:12:26 UTC

Happy New Years from Finland 🎇
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2024-12-18 11:58:45 UTC

Congrats to the @npub1gds…fse5 folks for all their fantastic work on #xfce420 and special thanks to all the work they have put in to libxfce4windowing (including responding to questions from us Budgie folks 😃). Lots of great work clearly went into the 4.20 release, the XFCE community should be really proud of all the contributions that made it possible.
If you're an XFCE user and appreciate their work, be sure to spread some cheer during this holiday season (if you can) with a donation to their OpenCollectives!
Details and other ways to get involved: https://www.xfce.org/getinvolved

2024-12-06 21:22:10 UTC

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FUUUUCK realm RIP again.

2024-12-06 21:17:30 UTC

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HERE WE GOOOOO
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2024-11-16 12:45:14 UTC

I know it is seemingly criminal to some to mention other social networks on Mastodon, however would like to mention I am on Bluesky at https://bsky.app/profile/joshuastrobl.social
Liam (of @npub1d62…rhjw) has been doing a lot of fantastic work creating / maintaining lists for gaming, Linux, and open source (yours truly is also on there). I would suggest using those to follow a bunch of people and filter down after that. Also be sure to ask Liam to add you on the list if you do Linux / OpenSource things!
Open Source one: https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3lay6ngkemk2c
Gaming: https://bsky.app/profile/gamingonlinux.com/post/3laydnibl422h

2024-11-06 09:12:25 UTC

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Warmly? Fuck no.

2024-10-31 23:28:15 UTC

It has been over three years since my last #Koto development diary. With its resurrection using #Qt6 and #KDE Frameworks, time to read why the heck I resurrected it to begin with and catch up on what I accomplished so far!
https://joshuastrobl.com/2024/11/01/dev-diary-13-koto-the-resurrection
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2024-10-31 19:54:48 UTC

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Thank you! 👏

2024-10-31 19:46:12 UTC

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I must learn the ways of the ~~Jedi~~ Liam.

2024-10-31 19:29:49 UTC

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Mastodon has become the only social network I can honestly stand using. Threads is full of meaningless engagement bait and Bluesky is just endless anime art no matter how much I tell their apparently terrible algorithm that I want to see less of it (or frankly none of it).

2024-10-29 09:16:55 UTC

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big yikes. even after it expires there is a pretty lengthy grace period (usually 30d). At least that's been my experience with Namecheap.

2024-10-22 10:12:34 UTC

My Jolla C2 has arrived!
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2024-10-01 13:49:36 UTC

I will be streaming tomorrow from 0900-1400 UTC for Day 2 of #Koto development. Will be continuing to work on the indexer leveraging #Qt6 directory-related classes, KFileMetadata, and hopefully not getting gaslit by clangd!
https://youtube.com/live/LAyVNcbvv48?feature=share
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2024-09-28 16:51:56 UTC

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Thanks for the shout-out! Was really appreciated ❤️ Great to see a bunch of KDE folks show up and as one would expect, a friendly and helpful bunch as always! 💯

2024-09-18 17:58:34 UTC

Struggled with setting up window sharing in OBS Studio when using a wlroots-based compositor? Well have I got the solution for you! At least until the proper solution lands in wlroots and its xdg desktop portal 😉
Since I plan on streaming some development during my vacation, this was something I really wanted to get sorted.
https://joshuastrobl.com/2024/09/18/sharing-windows-in-obs-studio-under-wlroots-compositors #Linux #opensource
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2024-09-16 18:06:14 UTC

Pleasantly surprised to not only see that my Oculink dock with my Intel Arc A770 "just works" under #Fedora, but also that QuickSync AV1 showed up and seems to work. Planning on streaming during my vacation and wanted GPU-accelerated AV1 before doing that. Next up: make & 3D print a case! 🎉
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2024-09-10 15:50:56 UTC

Just finished my order of the pre-ordered #Jolla C2 🎉 Will happily test out the 4G for the rest of you here in Finland ;)
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2024-09-07 14:39:45 UTC

Things really coming together in a good way for the @npub1sdr…838t budgie-daemon work I have been doing.
Spent a bunch of time thinking about the schema for display / mode bits and think I'm fairly happy with the initial pass, but still want to expand on it with getter / setter for specific Properties and supporting PropertiesChanged.
Looked into various options for DBus on C++ and it basically came down to dbus-cxx and sdbus-c++. sdbus-c++ API looked much nicer and they have better documentation, including setting up the conf bits needed for systemd.
sdbus-c++ made it a breeze to get a DBus Server going and C++ generated from the XML schema with sdbus-c++-xml2cpp. Very happy with it so far, but I just plugged in my first method so we'll see how things go as I work on it further 😁
Hopefully distros can get their packages updated to 2.0.0 one of these days though. Noticed both Arch and Fedora are chilling on 1.5.0.
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