Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

After all that time, it's *finally* here. The #librem5 arrived today! Been playing around with it for a couple of hours now, experiences incoming I guess ^^

With the Librem 5 just hitting shipping parity and Purism holding stock for new purchases, it was time for an updated review of the tremendous progress our team has made with PureOS for the Librem 5 and Liberty Phone with Made in USA Electronics. Here we will talk about the good, bad, and lasting effects of PureOS on the Liberty Phone and Librem 5.
https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-on-liberty-phone-and-librem-5/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-pureos-on-liberty-phone-and-librem-5
#Librem5 #Purism #PureOS #Review

ars technica: we don't know how they did it but google chrome now extracts a pint of blood every time you log on

chrome user, dizzy from blood loss: I swear to god I am like this close to switching to firefox

another chrome user, on the verge of fainting from severe blood loss: no need to resort to that, just switch to [insert today's trendy chrome fork here] and be smart like meeee

So yeah I have access to all Android apps on the #Librem5 , but what about native apps? Let's do a review of what I have installed so far 👇

Finally got my #Librem5 in hand, and I have not had such glorious brickfeel since my Nokia N900

This thing feels like a potential murder weapon, which is absolutely a quality I admire in a mobile device

An article on @mobian on phones was published in the print edition of dutch #linuxmag.nl! 💓

Subtitled: "Use Debian on your mobile phone"

Thanks to @martijnbraam for telling us!

Turns out you on a #Librem5 you can install android in a container and it runs at native speed. The android window shows as an app, so I can just use an android app if I find a native version lacking, neat!

We have shipped through the entire Librem 5 queue, and as a result the Librem 5 lead-time is now two-weeks for new orders.
https://puri.sm/posts/thank-you-librem-5-supporters/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-thank-you-librem-5-supporters

Congratulations @purism team on hitting shipping parity for the mass-produced Librem 5! I know first hand how hard everyone has worked to get to this point and how many obstacles you faced along the way.

https://puri.sm/posts/thank-you-librem-5-supporters/

#Librem5

phosh 0.31.0 is out 🚀📱:

Lots of fixes in #phoc ➕ better xdg-activation ➕ less CPU usage ➕ animations on tiling/max

#phosh now supports the tablet-mode of convertibles (based on work by Jonathan Hall)

p-m-s allows to configure the notification priority for waking up the screen (thanks to Suraj Kumar Mahto).

libcall-ui switched to GTK4 thanks to @antonok.

Check out the full release notes at https://phosh.mobi/releases/rel-0.31.0/

#phosh #librem5 @purism #gnome #linux #mobile #LinuxMobile #MobileLinux

When I came out to my mom, when I was 18, I was nervous as anything.

She's a great mom, she always raised me and my brother to treat folks compassionately, and even before I came out to her she talked about LGBTQ+ people with care and love. But still, it was terrifying, nerve-wracking. I had peers who'd been kicked out of their homes, and even though I believed my mom would be accepting, the possibility of our relationship changing because of my sexuality was dreadful.

Before I came out to her, I came out to my three best friends at the time, one after the other. My reasoning was that if things went poorly, I would want community around me. A parent's rejection hurts more than almost anything else, I instinctively knew, and I took pains to make sure I was safe.

Of course my mom was loving in her response, and she is an outspoken ally of the queer community in her role as a minister in the United Church of Canada. At this point, she might have even been to more Pride celebrations than I have, and she's certainly waved the rainbow flag more than me (I'm not very flashy :P )

But even with all that, if someone - a teacher, a parent, a peer - had outed me to her before I was ready, with words I might not choose for myself, things could have gone much differently. I know this because it's happened to many, many, many of my queer kin.

For LGBTQ+ youth in hostile or precarious households, being outed to bigoted parents has consequences, it is an act of harm. "Parents rights" have nothing to do with their child's sexuality, gender, or anything else except insofar as it serves to help the child grow and flourish. A teen keeping their pronouns private from their parents may be the best thing that teen can do to keep themselves safe and housed.

ALL kids deserve the right to privacy, - even from their parents - kids deserve to grow into adults on their own time, to grow into whole people without worrying they might be homeless.

This move across Canada by conservative governments to turn teachers into gender-cops has NO purpose except to cause harm to LGBTQ+ people. It's a resentful, spiteful little law, that only the worst kinds of people who have a very specific, very intentional hatred of us, would write.

Librem 5 is fast approaching shipping parity - Note to all early backers that still need to confirm their shipping address: contact support now.
https://puri.sm/posts/we-have-your-phone-ready-to-ship/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-we-have-your-phone-ready-to-ship
#Librem5

@jk And the worst is this - eight billion people on the planet have to look at these, but none of us got to participate in the decision of whether to do it.

Thanks to @antonok libcall-ui's main branch now uses GTK4/libadwaita. We've also tagged 0.2.0~beta1 for that.

For GTK3/libhandy applications there's still the 0.1.x branch.

#gtk #gnome #phosh