I should have said "contributing to" instead of "financing". The developers, designers, manufacturers, translators and any other contributors to free technologies are part of this beautiful collaborative world
I wrote this article because I believe that a true democratic society is slowly happening while the technology is slowly being owned by the people. This bright upcoming future has nothing to do with politics but from the people financing Free aka "Libre" licensed technologies.
https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-is-pioneering-a-bright-future/
Insightful. We can't repeat often enough that @mobian , @debian , @postmarketOS , @manjarolinux and others would not be where they are now, without @purism adopting a cooperative upstreaming policy. We would wager that everyone purchasing a (true) Linux device now, benefits from your investments. There is plenty to criticize and nag about you 😝, but you are doing the whole FOSS community a service that could not easily be replicated by volunteers.
Bored this weekend? We've finally got a new drawing challenge for you!
The topic is
GLASS
It runs until October 4, 2021.
Create a picture and join the fun in the Inkscape forums at
https://inkscape.org/forums/competitions/new-challenge-21-september-2021-04-october-2021/
No prizes, just fun!
Two things around the corner for less flicker during boot in #phosh and #phoc (https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phosh/-/merge_requests/890, https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/phoc/-/merge_requests/265)
Kudos to @francois for the #plymouth theme, @dos for plymouth crash fixing and @craftyguy for osk-sdl
Making a #sip call from the #calls app on the #librem5 (and yes audio worked ;) ). This is still a development version of gnome-calls. And work still needs to be done to make it more user friendly and integrated with other components. But hey it is progress :D
Credits go out to: @devrtz that has been working to add #sip on gnome-calls. Also the account on the phone is an jmp.chat account, shoutout to them as jmp.chat is an awesome service :D
Librem 5 (left) vs Canon SX740 HS (right)
Both photos are taken at around 3MP (quarter the resolution L5 actually supports, but for now only from the command line, while I took it using Megapixels). Manually adjusted the raw image from L5 to have similar color balance as Canon's photo.
Calling all Inkscape artists!
You're invited to enter our traditional About Screen Contest for the upcoming Inkscape version 1.1!
Find all information about how to join the drawing contest at
https://inkscape.org/en/community/about-screen-contests/
We're looking forward to seeing your art!
Using #gimp on the #librem5 works better now thanks to the new display scaling feature in #phosh 0.8.0 #UserFreedom #mobile #gnu #linux #freesoftware @purism @agx #gnomeonmobile
Librem 5 Update: Shipping Estimates and CPU Supply Chain
"It’s been a busy holiday and New Year’s season at Purism as we continue to ship out Librem 5s to backers each week. We know for those who haven’t received their Librem 5 yet, what they most want to know is when their Librem 5 will arrive."
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-update-shipping-estimates-and-cpu-supply-chain/
This was the second of the 3 Librem 5 promo videos I made at home during the lock-down : https://odysee.com/@purism:8/a-phone-that-respects-your-children:6
Gaming That Respects You
"The Librem 5 features high quality, free games that respect you. Play 2D and 3D games without ads, without in-app purchases, and without tracking."
Portfolio is a new minimal, mobile-first file manager for GNOME by @tchx84.
Librem 15 End of Year Sale!
Get $300 off!
https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-15/
"Ultra-portable workstation laptop that was designed chip-by-chip, line-by-line, to respect your rights to privacy, security, and freedom."
Learn more: https://puri.sm/products/librem-15/