Desktop and Phone Convergence
https://puri.sm/posts/desktop-and-phone-convergence/
"The #librem5 is more than a phone, it’s a full desktop computer in your pocket designed to be just as mobile as you are."
We pay to Steam, Netflix, Amazon prime, Spotify. But not to Wikipedia, Archive.org, Librivox, Project Gutenberg, for our favourite Linux distro.
The huge asymmetry between corporate and community has not emerged naturally. It is a product of our choices of not supporting community oriented projects.
The short conveniences vs the long-term good. We always chose the former.
In face of surveillance capitalism, we must and must change.
GPS Tuning the Librem 5 Hardware
"Society is getting pretty used to the idea that the data and applications on phones are completely controlled by large corporations. Purism is working hard to change that with the Librem 5."
“no amount of charity in spending such fortunes can compensate in any way for the misconduct in acquiring them”.
Roosevelt on #philanthropists
Without a goal, any direction is the right direction.
Makes life easier, but will it make it better?
#thoughts
Librem 13 - The Road Warrior
- 13.3" Matte IPS Display
- 8GB, up to 32GB, DDR4
- Purism Kill Switches
- Anodized Aluminium Chassis
- Back-lit Keyboard
Find out more: https://puri.sm/products/librem-13/
The #LibremMini :
- New eighth-generation quad‑core i7 processor
- Up to 64 GB of Fast DDR4
- Memory
- SATA III, M.2 PCI Express 3.0 x4
- Gigabit Ethernet with optional WiFi