Attending a talk by RMS at TUM right now.

https://www.net.in.tum.de/events/richard_stallman_25.html

Starting with a ted talk recording to save time
#shotonlibrem5

I'll just listen now - if anyone is here and wants to meet afterwards, please @ me 🙂️

Calling LLMs 'Bullshit Generators' is a good idea.

He just mentioned #librephone (and LineageOS and Graphene, but no mention of #LinuxMobile alternatives. Do they really not know in Boston? Sure, fully blob-free alternatives are rare (IIRC, a #PinePhone with some kill-switches turned-off and atk9k_htc WiFi is at least close), but come on.

(If you want to help out do #advocacy under the linmob.net umbrella (or outside of it), please get in touch. Looks like we need to do better.)

Here's another photo, #shotonLibrem5.

@linmob By the way, how is Librem doing as a daily driver in 2025? Some people say it's slow.. Librem says its snappy in a blog post I've just read... Linux phone with working camera can't get out of my mind. Price vs specs is kind of out of this world now in 2025, and I'm kind of worried how long can they keep supporting 3GB RAM, and old CPU equipped device really, but still 🙃️

@ati1 @linmob Depends what the user wants from a personal device, how they use it and what their priorities are. If someone's priorities are a modern camera, running proprietary Android apps and their money is held hostage by banks requiring #Duopoly apps, they should check back later, perhaps when the Librem 5 "Fir" model is released.

On the other hand, if #FreeSoftware, privacy, #modularity, #repairability, #ecofriendliness, #decentralisation, #digitaliindependence, etc. are valued above other things, the Librem 5 and the higher-spec model, the #LibertyPhone, can absolutely work in 2025 and beyond.

I am daily driving a #Librem5 with #postmarketOS and everything important to me works: VoLTE calls and SMS (although I avoid them due to #SaltTyphoon), 4G data, Wi-Fi, camera with OK quality photos (see: #ShotOnLibrem5), GPS with #PureMaps, web browsing with #FirefoxESR, web apps (including banking) using #GNOMEWeb and #BraveBrowser, email using #Geary and #DeltaChat, audio calls on #SignalMessenger, #Matrix ( #ElementMessenger), #XMPP ( #Dino), #JitsiMeet, etc.

There are occasional bugs and quirks, and the device itself has limitations but nothing that I can't work around.

Not sure if I missed anything. Let me know if you have a specific use case that you absolutely require and I'll see if I can test...

@opensourceopenmind @linmob I'm using Phosh/Postmarket OS on Pixel 3a. With pretty much same app collection you mentioned Looks like Librem 5 would let me do the same plus camera and VoLTE (experimental on Pixel and didn't work straight away for me on T-Mobile in EU). That would be great. I have visible RAM limitations on Pixel, like Firefox ESR + Tuba + Kasts + DeltaChat is usually too much already and sth gets killed after a while. That's with 4GB, Librem has 3GB right?Is that similar?

@opensourceopenmind @linmob Also I have some issues with sound due to proprietary dfivers on Pixel. There's no in-talk volume level setting with buttons. You have to set max volume levels in terminal separatedly for earpiece and bottom speaker. This way you either have ok in-talk sound and no ringtones at all, or ok ringtones and 5x too loud in-talk volume. There seems to be walkaround but beyond my skills and free time at the moment. I gues that stuff all works out of the box on Librem?

@ati1 @linmob Not sure I completely understood this... but I haven't encountered anything like this. There are two spekers on the #Librem5: handset and speaker. I switch to handset using the quick settings menu during calls, and leave it on speaker otherwise to get loud notifications.

You can select the output device (handset, speaker, headphone) very easily from the quick settings, and the volume button will then adjust that.

Would be great if it could select the desired output automatically, of course, but I think they haven't decided in #phosh how to automatically determine which output user would likely want..

@opensourceopenmind @ati1 @linmob Speakers switch automatically during calls on PureOS and have been doing so for years.