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@bradlinder "It's not enough to build your own"

Hmm, why not? It would be prohibitively expensive and rather pointless, but if that doesn't scare you off all you need should be out there now.

@kop316 Maybe? You've got the designs now. But I'm afraid I have no idea, I have never even 3D printed anything so far 😂

@krafting Far from it. It only has schematics, component placement and 3D model of back cover available (and in case of PinePhone Pro it appears that the schematics aren't even complete, as its USB-C board is still marked "TBD"). No layouts, no CAD files, no mechanical design.

Purism has released the Librem 5's mechanical design, adding to already available schematics and PCB layouts.

source.puri.sm/Librem5/3D_desi

I think that may make it the first proper Open Hardware smartphone out there.

@foone As if USB-C spec didn't already show us all that explicitly forbidding certain kinds of cables and adapters is not going to change anything regarding their existence and availability 😜

For anyone doubting that autism self-diagnosis is valid, look at this graph.

Note how well the diagnosed and undiagnosed-but-assumed autistic people overlap, compared to the near mirror image from non-autistic people.

OMG. DirectX is adopting SPIR-V, and will eventually use it to replace DXIL! 🤯 (Yes, I triple checked. Today isn't April Fools.)

devblogs.microsoft.com/directx

@Claire @mcc Is this a thing that actually happens (not counting physically damaged ones)? I'm pretty sure none of my USB 2.0-only USB-C cables is e-marked.

@pavel @cas I mean, that's the only thing I use the camera switch for 😂

@cas What I want is the ability to power gate the modules, which has plenty of use-cases, but most importantly it gives me some control over black-boxed peripherals. Whether it's ultimately controlled by a hardware switch or the OS that I actually control doesn't make much difference - or at least that's what I used to think until I started using the L5 and noticed how convenient the switches are. The PinePhone ones are IMO mostly useless though (maybe aside of the UART one).

@cas I couldn't care less about the security aspect, but I was actually surprised how much I use Librem 5's kill switches. They're so handy! Well, the cellular and WiFi ones at least, I don't think I have ever used the camera one for non-debugging purposes 😜

@eliasr @agx You could see their window already being present in the app list if you unfolded the home screen again while the splash screen was still being displayed.

It's the small things: If you've been bothered with and seemingly starting up slowly in (while most other apps startup fast): I've posted MRs to fix this in chatty and calls (which then also prompted a small fix in phosh). Here's a quick demo of calls before and after the change:

@foone dunno if I qualify as "not weird", but I don't maintain a conversion script and just use gifski...

...aaand I fixed it. Well, on my device at least.

So who's responsible for this part of SteamOS? @collabora? @igalia? Wanna hire me? 😁

...not that this issue was particularly challenging - just some rebuilds needed - but it's not the first SteamOS problem I've cracked either 😜 The most fun one was definitely social.librem.one/@dos/1082078

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Please do not add genAI images to punch up your writing. You might think that it adds a nice little bit of visual pizazz to your content-marketing piece, but what you're actually doing is *making it look like content marketing* rather than a useful resource. To the extent that content marketing is an effective tactic, it is because you build trust with the customer by providing them valuable information. A genAI turd plopped on top of your writing is a signal that it will be worthless slop.

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