Another week with the @purism Librem 14 and I’m quite pleased.
Now that cars have become rolling smartphones, it's been pretty disappointing to see them copy some of the worst practices from the smartphone world. I wrote an article that talks about some of those problems. [CW: Tesla negativity] https://puri.sm/posts/locked-in-a-remote-control-car/
Another look at my @purism Librem 14 - this time on the battery life front in Qubes OS doing basic tasks:
Somehow, despite many years of international travel and expat assignments, I never noticed that indeed everyone else’s periodic tables do say Aluminium. It’s we Americans doing it wrong, and the hard line I drew in the sand about this manipulation of the name of an ELEMENT was based on a web of lies. This may be as close to an existential crisis as I ever get. I am shook.
First impressions of my new Librem 14 from @purism. In just before I take a vacation inside my vacation!
https://ajmartinez.com/tech/posts/202119-001-librem14
More to follow in a few weeks once I've had more time on the machine.
The Librem 14 has great battery life and in this post we put it through its paces from low-power idle tests all the way to a torture test that pegs all 12 threads at 100%. Check out this post and video for all of our tests and results: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-14-runtime-and-charging/
Ran into some trouble with my initial Qubes install on the Librem 14, as apparently changing any options in the disk partitioning unchecks the encryption box and renders it uncheckable. This is clearly a Qubes problem, and not a Purism problem, but it led me down a fun path of reinstalling a dozen times or so. That said, now I’m very well acquainted with PureBoot, my TPM, and my Librem Key.
I’ll work on A Rust Site Engine a bit on the Librem 14 today and see how I like it for Rust development.
Got my hands on my @purism Librem 14 shortly after I got back to the US. Then I went out for tacos while Qubes downloads. Internet here is so slow. And expensive.
And thus begins my month long vacation. Not bringing either laptops with me. If it breaks my team will have to fix it without me, though I left ample documentation behind. Since I’m pretty sure my AD password expires during my vacation I went ahead and changed it to kick that can down the bad password policy road another 90d.
Looking forward to just chilling for a month. Practicing my violin again. Tacos.
In honor of #WorldPasswordDay2021 here's my favorite talk I've given on password policy: Sex, Secret and God: A Brief History of Bad Passwords in a 10-minute Ignite-style talk: https://opensource.com/article/18/5/brief-history-bad-passwords and the full-length talk I gave at BSidesLV 2017: https://infocondb.org/con/security-bsides/bsideslv-2017/sex-secret-and-god-a-brief-history-of-bad-passwords
I like to work with my hands. That may mean hammering out solutions to complex problems in #Python or #Rust, building things in my shop, or spinning yarn to knit something warm. You’ll likely see some of all of that here. By day (and sometimes night) I keep >13k nodes and services alive in the Electric Vehicle sector.
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