Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

My second (backup) Librem Key has arrived. Tomorrow, I’ll write up how I’m using network-isolated qubes for GnuPG related tasks and how that feeds into making a backup key so the loss of my primary isn’t a major show stopping event.

@kyle that was kind of my feeling as well. This isn’t the first new thing that will change everything and replace Linux that we’ve seen come and go.

@kyle or will Fuschia find its way into the Google graveyard quickly? I often wonder how these things really impact those of us for whom the early 2000s really did contain “the year of LoTD”. Any thoughts on what it is we regular users of Linux stand to lose in a world where Fuschia is on a homerolled microkernel?

Building a 4TB RAID1 array over USB2 on slow spinning rust is *hilariously* slow.

Another week with the @purism Librem 14 and I’m quite pleased.

https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202121-001-librem14

@kyle hard pass for me.

@ouzougagh thanks!

@ouzougagh great thanks for the info! What resolution/refresh are you able to run through it?

@nick thanks for looking into it for me, appreciate the help. The dock isn’t a must as I have a USB-C to DP cable already, and could just plug the rest in to normal ports already on my new machine. It would be nice to just have one thing to plug in/out though. It looks like there’s potentially a massive Dell universal dock that could work.

@nick could well be! Do you know if it will drive 4K at 60Hz over HDMI.

Anyone have a USB-C dock recommendation? Needs DP or HDMI 2.0 and some USB3.1 ports. Ethernet would be nice.

@kyle very cool, looks like AC charging only but with planning that’s not a problem really. Looks like a solid kit!

@kyle getting the Librem 14 was in no small part so I’d have the power to do some (mechanical) modeling and embedded programming on a system completely removed from $dayJob (my work AppVM was not and will not be part of the restore). Helping move electrification forward in a meaningful and open way is somewhere I think I can contribute.

@kyle this is a big part of the reason I will keep paying to fix my Tacoma for a long time to come. It doesn’t have GPS or an infotainment center. It does however have some surely proprietary sensors that I’m screwed if Toyota ever stops making (and one of mine breaks). In the early days of EVs many SUVs and trucks had conversion kits to electric drive, and in the future I may look at doing similar with my Tacoma if batteries ever get light and (power) dense enough.

Another look at my @purism Librem 14 - this time on the battery life front in Qubes OS doing basic tasks:

https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202120-001-librem14

@kyle it’s a totally different feeling for me as well. Definitely makes sense to me.

Managed to hurt my shoulder somehow (being old I guess is enough) but that’s not stopping me from enjoying my vacation.

@kyle lol, that’s a good one