Website : Jan Wagemakers

TL;DR Be very careful with qbootctl because it can brick your phone.

This is an update of https://www.janwagemakers.be/jekyll/postmarketos/shift/2025/09/18/shift6mq_sdcard_postmarketos.html where I describe my dual boot setup between postmarketOS and android on my shift6mq shift-phone.

Preface: For a very long time, this was my email setup at home: Mutt : MUA (Mail User Agent) postfix : MTA (Message transfer agent) fetchmail : MRA (Mail retrieval agent) procmail : MDA (Message delivery agent) Procmail was used to sort my email in Maildir

Let’s describe my current dual boot setup between postmarketOS and android on my shift6mq shift-phone.

Preface : My shift6mq shift-phone is back.

Preface : I’ve a shift6mq shift-phone that was running postmarketOS and Android in a dual boot (slot A/B) setup.

Preface : A year ago, I wrote down a little story about how I read my emails on my smartphone (postmarketOS/Sxmo) with Mutt.

Intended as documentation for myself (but perhaps useful for others as well), here I describe how I installed postmarketOS with Sxmo on a Hackberry-Pi_Zero. pmbootstrap To create an image and flash it to an sdcard I used pmbootstrap. 1. ~$ pmbootstrap init

Preface : This is a little story about how I read my emails on my smartphone with Mutt.

At the moment I’m working on upgrading my smart thermostat that was using a Microchip PIC18f1320 to a Raspberry Pico W and a Waveshare Pico e-Paper 4.2 B display.

zonder woorden 😭

By using the flex break-out board, I’ve connected a Microchip MCP23008 8-Bit I/O Expander to the pogo pins of my pinephone.

By using SSH, I’m able to login on my pinephone running postmarketOS, but doing the same with mosh fails. mosh: Last reply 15 seconds ago.

With a free (as in beer) service like uptimerobot, it’s possible to check if some websites are up or down.

Belgium: It’s summer, but the weather is not that great at the moment… So, I’m learning the Go programming language.