Magnar G. Johnsen @magnargj@mastodon.social

Librem 5 Mass Production Phone Has Begun Shipping

"Shipping the Librem 5 has been an immense multi-year developmental effort. It is the culmination of people’s desire to see an alternative to Android and iOS..."

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-mass-production-phone-has-begun-shipping/

#librem5 #privacy #security

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket

"What makes the Librem 5 special is that it reclaims the full potential of what phones should have been all along: a general-purpose computer in your pocket under your control."

Learn more: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/

#librem5 #privacy #convergence

#phosh 0.6.0 is out 🚀 : https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/phosh/-/releases/v0.6.0

Besides more fixes for docked mode, the most visible change is @exalm 's work to close apps by swiping up. This needs #libhandy 1.0.2.

#librem5 @purism #gnomeonmobile

This seems pretty serious. All mac users should probably read this :(

https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/

In just a few weeks we will start shipping Librem 5 Evergreen!

You can still pre-order your #librem5 now and save $50 off - but be quick - early bird pricing ends soon!

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/

#librem5 #privacy #security #freedom

The General Purpose Computer In Your Pocket

https://puri.sm/posts/the-general-purpose-computer-in-your-pocket/

"One of the neatest tricks Big Tech ever pulled was convincing people that phones weren’t general-purpose computers and should have different rules than laptops or desktops. These rules conveniently give the vendor more control so that you don’t own a smartphone so much as you rent it."

#privacy #software #freedom

Major performance improvements coming to the #PinePhone thanks to work by Ondrej Jirman (megi).
Video shows UI performance of
@kde on
@postmarketOS, but the fix will benefit all OSes.

Remember kids:

"[Microsoft] GitHub has the right to suspend or terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. GitHub reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time."
https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/site-policy/github-terms-of-service

Also, can we make a point of always calling it Microsoft #GitHub from now on please? Thanks.

#youtubedl

@purism I improved keyboard navigation in #phosh a bit so the #librem5 becomes more fun to use when docked:

The thirteenth edition of my weekly collection of @PINE64 #PinePhone and @purism #Librem5 news, #LinBits, is out!

https://linmob.net/2020/09/27/linbits12-weekly-pinephone-news-week39.html

A new release of #HuongTramLinux, #GloDroid 0.5.1, Camera Adventures and much more.

I am really pleased with how well Mobian is working on the #pinephone.

Its not perfect but its good to go.

What is not quite good to go, its the surrounding apps. The camera is still a bit glitchy and needs work, but its happening fairly quickly and works good enough for most things.

Mobians firefox tweaks aren’t as good as pmOS’s tweaks, I wish they would just take pmOS’s tweaks. Or, even better, get a webbrowser that’s actually designed for a phone working. The one on mobian kinda works, but its slow painfully slow compared to firefox DESKTOP somehow.. ugh.

The navigation software is terrible and unstable. I need this, unfortunately.

There is just a lot of missing software — being fair, mobile phone (real) linux is brand new and its still in its infancy. There really just aren’t many coders actually making mobile apps yet.

Like, niceties such as fedi software aren’t there yet, not really. There was one but it was just a web thing — pointless.

Complaints aside, this is progressing much faster than I had anticipated.

For me, I need 1) Working navigation, 2) CCDA for pinephone

September Blog Update Time!

- We're an Arm ecosystem partner now!
- New and improved Pine Store upcoming

- #PinebookPro production delay due to LCD shortage

- #PineTab new image releases

- #PinePhone Manjaro CE preorders start Sept. 17

- #PinePhone camera developments

- p-boot multi-image loader

https://www.pine64.org/2020/09/15/september-update-let-it-sink-in/

Starting with next build, there will be no more default password "root" for user root in @mobian. In fact, root will have no password at all. Also the silly restriction to have a non-numeric password for regular users is gone.

#ICYMI - Librem 5 Evergreen Update: Mold and Milestones

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-evergreen-update-mold-and-milestones/

"It has been a long journey from our crowdfunding campaign to this important milestone. We want to thank the community for your support through each step of this process and joining us for this crazy ride!"

#privacy #freedom #security

Google Threatens to Boot Mastodon Apps Off Google Play: "Comply with our User Generated Content policy, or else!"

#Google #Mastodon #Fediverse #Censorship

https://www.vegard.net/google-bans-mastodon-apps/

Yikes!