https://etbe.coker.com.au/2026/01/19/furilabs-flx1s/
I blogged about the Furilabs FLX1s Debian phone
@opensourceopenmind I don't know if I'm being positive enough about Furilabs for them to boost me. Once I got the phone (which was a saga) it worked OK but there have been a number of issues along the way.
But it's the first non-Android phone that's got more than 3 days use as my primary phone since for more than 15 years.
@opensourceopenmind how do you deal with the short battery life of the Librem5? I've idly considered 3d printing a case for it that has a bunch of 16650 rechargeable batteries. 16650 seem to be cheap and have a range of cheap chargers.
@etbe @opensourceopenmind It could be better, but it usually manages to go through a day on a single charge, which is far from the point where I'd personally start considering such measures. Are you using system suspend? If not, why?
@dos @etbe With automatic suspend after 1 minute on battery power enabled, yes it can last throughout the work day if you only need the phone for phone calls and SMS, as notifications for those come while device is suspended.
However, if you need data notifications, like Signal calls and messages, Matrix, XMPP, Delta Chat, email, etc., you can't really use auto suspend all of the time.
@opensourceopenmind @etbe Depends on your needs. I use XMPP daily, but I definitely wouldn't want it to scream for my attention. It's supposed to show me the messages when I reach for the phone, not the other way around :P
@dos @opensourceopenmind If you use XMPP for socialisation then you don't need it to be receiving fast responses all the time. If it checks for notifications every 15 minutes when you don't have the screen on that would do. But for server monitoring you want it a bit faster.
You don't need the phone on all the time for that. If a phone went to low power (nothing active other than receiving calls and SMS) most of the time and then every 5 minutes went live for data checks that wouild do.
@dos @opensourceopenmind For best results we need to have software coordinateed with power management. Don't have 5 programs doing checks every 5 minutes, have 5 programs all do their checks when power comes on and schedule that every 5 minutes.
@dos @etbe Depends. I do live chat support for a few organisations and businesses, and one way I onboarded many people to #DeltaChat and #Signal is by giving them as a live chat option on the website.