Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@kyle @twrightsman Fractal is doing work to move onto matrix-rust-sdk and then add e2ee so a native client is on the way. Hopefully they finish before my Librem 5 ships. Looking forward to always having a real Linux computer with me without having to carry around my laptop.

@purism that’s pretty cool stuff! I’ve got my own project for determining network status of defined resources, and plan to add a GUI using libhandy eventually. Glad to see I’m not the only person thinking along these lines.

@wilw this was the first year I’ve ever tried it and as someone without a computer science background it has helped a lot.

@pamaca @Gina I just bought a laptop that had everything I need. Just say no to dongles.

@Gina I had a BT mouse I liked a lot once upon a time. No extra dongles needed. I’ve stuck with my 2016 laptop as long as I have because it still has all the things I need. The next machine does too, and I hope that company lasts a long time and keeps offering devices I can use the way I want. I’m willing to pay!

@Gina the idea of getting a wee dongle to plug another wee dongle into makes me immediately picture snapping the damned thing off one day doing something important like reaching for another stroopwaffel while watching whichever show I’m binge-background noising while I spend too much time nerding.

@wilw indeed the docs are one of my favorite things about the language. I’m way behind now, but I have been doing Advent of Code 2020 in Rust and that’s made a huge difference in how rapidly I can get things working.

@Gina ah and I’m guessing those use a USB-A doohicky for the receiver as opposed to BT?

@Gina I guess that said are there a bunch of USB-A devices you need to use? If you do depends on them consider whether or not you can get USB-C cables for them and hope they work?

@Gina for me the deal breaker is a lack of an RJ45 jack. I also hate dongles and needing one to use wired ethernet drives me batty. Also USB-C is the worst connector ever.

@wilw it is certainly a wonderful language. Welcome!

@kyle 👏👏👏

There are a few features I want to add to my #Rust crate connchk, but I think I’ll take a tech break this weekend.

@the_tower_power_ damnnn

@kyle hahahaha solid gold man

@stevenroose @Gina my T460s has been crushing it since 2016. A touch underpowered for some tasks now, but not holding me back. My Librem 14 should ship in the first batch or so, and I imagine that arrives before any EU lockdowns end so I should have some impressions by then

Nothing says humpday quite like making sure you’ve patched everything you can patch against recently announced horribad CVE both at work and at home.

@Gina Lenovo would work, as would Purism’s Librem 14. If we ever get to relax the pandemic measures I can let you test drive both.

@Gina ruh roh

@Gina haha thanks for the much needed laugh 😹