Beat @beat@librem.one

Hi all, Geary is looking for a co-maintainer!

@mjog doesn't have enough time to to do it all by themselves any more, and so is looking for a hand in taking care of day-to-day tasks such as bug triaging and fixing, and working on improving the front-end side of the app in particular.

If you're interested, take a look at the issue tracker, and pitch on in!

If you have any questions, please thread them below or get in touch with @mjog 👇

Cheers!

#Geary #GNOME

Both proprietary and free software users care about their privacy, but free software users are actually empowered to *protect* it. They can audit the code and, if they have to, remove any questionable bits and still use the software. https://puri.sm/posts/audacity-telemetry-and-why-free-software-means-better-privacy/

So I spent the last few hours on taking pictures of cats with the rear camera of my Librem 5. Yep, that's my job now. #librem5 #gnu #linux #mobile #cat #caturday

All credit for the camera support goes to Dorota, Martin and Angus: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/linux-next/-/issues/44#note_148408 @merge @purism

RT @_Mark_Atwood@twitter.com

The conversations that will change the world are not on Slack. They are in unindexed rooms on unindexed nodes on @matrixdotorg@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/_Mark_Atwood/status/1362083424341688322

Because Nextcloud is easy enough for any admin to install on off-the-shelf hardware, or on a cloud-hosted service, it makes for an ideal solution for any individual or business.

@jlwallen for @TechRepublic ⬇️

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-use-the-occ-command-for-nextcloud-command-line-management/

TMobile is kicking old Android phones off their network in January because vendors have abandoned the hardware and they no longer get security updates. Android's model of forcing you to buy new hardware every few years to get security updates is broken. https://www.tmonews.com/2020/12/t-mobile-will-no-longer-support-devices-january/

So this HP laptop that I'm fixing for a client requires you to physically break the chassis of the laptop to get the hard drive out. This is literally why we can't have nice things.

Now that GTK 4.0 is out it's time to celebrate! Join us for a remote release party this Fri, Dec 18, at 18:00-19:30 UTC. https://events.gnome.org/event/59/
#releaseparty #GTK

If you always wanted to watch a video about the @purism #Librem5 where the word Linux is mispronounced, here you go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSudn0qB6u0

Still, it's a nice video by @Mrwhosetheboss, which is going to draw a lot of attention to Linux phones 🎉 🎊

Great new features are coming to LibreOffice 7.1, due early next year, thanks to student developers in the Google Summer of Code @gsoc! For instance, you'll be able to get templates and add-ons directly inside LibreOffice itself: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/09/15/libreoffice-and-google-summer-of-code-2020-the-results/