Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

Scams, cults, and kernels.

Join me in looking back on my adventures in mobile Linux leading up to the Librem 5

#Librem5 #LinuxPhones #LinuxMobile #Phosh #PureOS #Postmarketos #Pinephone
https://wandy.dev/posts/2023-09-21-scams-cults-and-kernels

why do people do this??? do you get whipped on your back for every issue open on your repo when working at Microsoft or what

XDC 2023 program is now available in the web!

👉 https://indico.freedesktop.org/event/4/timetable/#all.detailed

@linmob @s31bz @bradlinder Yeah, the #librem5 is the one phone that most mobian developers currently recommend and use. Both purism and mobian devs are quite active with migrating things into @debian proper. We are aware of the price tag, but would like to reiterate that this actually includes salaries for mobile Linux developers.

I finally got a #librem5 phone not so expensive on #leboncoin (470€)
I tested #PureoOS yesterday and now i test #postmarketos installed in 128Go sdcard.
Tomorrow, i will try #mobian
I am verry happy to found this smartphone

@purism YO! I did a long command and my screen fell asleep and it gave me a notification my nmap command finished running this is SICK! Really loving this Purism Librem 5. Neither #android nor #ios just pure #linux #opensource
#infosec #cybersecurity #cellphone #review

Doing my initial tinkering of the @purism Librem 5 phone and WOW. I am impressed it’s truly full #Linux I just installed @element using apt out the box. Their official instructions! Taking the phone apart as well and thoroughly impressed
#cellphone #infosec #cybersecurity #review #privacy

I'm sure there's a tendency to always view the past as better, but the social-media-ification of the Internet has really sucked a lot of the joy out of entertaining people. When it was peripheral to the broader Internet, you spent most of your time making stuff. Now you gotta learn 8 to 12 platforms that mostly want you to act like an employee of their algorithm.

I've been rewriting my script, and decided to make a series of shorts instead one longer film. The first film will tackle more serious stuff. Keep fingers crossed that it gets funded, or you can always support me through ko-fi.

Here are some new mockups I made for the storyboard.

Hope your day goes well, I am resting today ❤️

#shortfilm #animation #stopmotion #mastoart

"#Unity isn't a game engine. It's a advertising and malware network that merged with a popular game engine as a delivery channel and now wears its corpse as its skin"

-#RobBeschizza

https://boingboing.net/2023/09/17/game-developers-flee-unity-after-exorbitan-price-plan-announced-but-not-everyone-can-get-out.html

@junocomputers
You get a completely free operating system, please support us in developing it with detailed
reports rather than pushing end user support upstream.

At the very minimum check with the communities upfront how to best interact and supply them with hardware.

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Dear @junocomputers if you sell computers and use Free Software Operating systems it is not o.k. to assume you can free ride on community support.

It makes me sad to have mails from users in my inbox that are stuck with an unusable device on a Sunday and are seeking help to get it going again. This is your job.

Please listen to your customer's issue. If it's a software issue in the latest upstream version forward it with a good description.

Screenshot is from https://junocomputers.com/product/juno-tablet/

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Thanks to everyone for a great reboot of All Systems Go!
We can't share all the great discussions in the hallway track but we can share all the talks here: https://media.ccc.de/c/asg2023

Many thanks to the @c3voc team and especially @danimo for streaming the conference an releasing the talks before we could even leave the venue.

The thing is, people's mental health doesn't go away by making everything expensive and more difficult to access. The drug abusers who don't have ADHD and just want to stay up all night aren't by-and-large the ones going through these processes. Their dealers are more readily available and ask fewer questions, and more likely, they move on to far more addictive substances (meth, etc). The expense and red tape in our system serve as a lock to keep honest people out.

Did you know that you can also buy #refurbished #Librem5's?

#Linux #phone #FOSS #MobileLinux

https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5-refurbished/

Librem 5 is now $999 (a $300 Savings)! Due primarily to the overwhelming demand for the Librem 5, we were able to lower our component costs and are now able to pass that savings onto new customers.
#Purism #librem5
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-999-or-899-when-bundled-with-awesim-cellular-service/?mtm_campaign=status_update&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-librem-5-999-or-899-when-bundled-with-awesim-cellular-service

One other thing is that developers are rightly mad at Unity.

However, all gamers should also be *extremely* mad at Unity because the only way they can enforce their proposed license is carefully tracking user behavior in a deeply invasive way.

unlike google chrome, at least bonzi buddy gave you a dancing monkey in return for running malware that tracked your every move

I do not envy the #Godot devs right now.

I used to be heavily invested in GNU #Octave, a free #Matlab replacement. That was a bit of a more ambitious goal, because Godot isn't trying to be exactly like Unity, but Octave is trying to be exactly like Matlab. The overall problem, however, is similar.

It's a difficult, mostly thankless task. Users don't care what it takes to make it look exactly like what it's supposed to be replacing. Photoshop users going to the GNU IMP, Matlab users going to Octave, Maya users going to Blender, Chrome users going to Firefox... they all want the same thing: basically the same software, but without the fees and restrictions. It is extremely draining to continuously disappoint people who aren't getting exactly the same software but without paying for it.

A few users will offer donations, but never enough to rival the budget of the software they're fleeing from. Nowadays there's better infrastructure to collect from these benevolent donors and get a steady income than when I was working on Octave.

All this to say: if you're migrating to better, less enshittified software, try to be kind and considerate of the smaller, more grassroots organisation and individuals that are trying to give you a comparable experience with no strings attached. :)

@aparrish I keep telling people this story about how around 2015 I tried making some generative music in JavaScript+WebAudio and my friend Tammy did the same as Game Boy ROMs, and within three years my WebAudio apps had been broken because Chrome made changes (with the apparent goal of advantaging YouTube over other websites), and Tammy's Game Boy ROMs still work embedded in a web-page today (by embedding a game boy emulator, of which there are many)