Watched neowise last night. Skies were very hazy, yet the nucleus was clearly visible through binocs. Could barely make out a tail.
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"With so many people becoming unemployed in the pandemic-induced recession, we have no choice but to handle our technology differently. Put another way: We need to make our tech last longer."
We agree! We are solving the problem of disposable technology with our Librem 5 phone: https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-longevity-solving-the-problem-of-disposable-technology/
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/technology/personaltech/make-your-tech-last-longer.html
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A Wildly Powerful, Privacy-Focused Linux Laptop Appears…
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/07/purism-librem-14-linux-laptop
"Suffice to say it's a beast based around a six-core Intel Core i7-10710U (1.10 GHz, 4.70 GHz turbo boost) processor."
Learn more about the all-new Librem 14: https://puri.sm/products/librem-14/
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Announcing the all-new Librem 14
https://puri.sm/products/librem-14
A powerful 14" laptop in a 13" footprint
- Core i7-10710U (Comet Lake) Processor, 6 cores & 12 threads
- Up to 32GB DDR4 memory
- Output 4K Video to two displays
More about the Librem 14: https://puri.sm/posts/purism-launches-librem-14-successor-to-security-focused-librem-13-product-line/
If you use #flatpak, checkout flatseal. It allows you to control app permissions from a gui.
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"The Librem Mini is first and foremost a device that's supposed to come with all the benefits of the Librem lineup of computers in a smaller form factor..."
@softpedialinux https://news.softpedia.com/news/forget-the-apple-mac-mini-the-purism-librem-mini-linux-mini-pc-is-now-official-529496.shtml
Find out more about the #LibremMini here: https://puri.sm/products/librem-mini/
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The XWiki SAS team is moving to full remote work, versus one third of our employees being remote and everybody being allowed to work remote 2 days per week. The team has published an article about working from home to give advice: https://xwiki.com/en/Blog/How-to-WFH-during-virus-outbreak/ #WFH #COVID19
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RT @SiouxsieW@twitter.com
Our #FlattenTheCurve graphic is now up on
@Wikipedia@twitter.com with proper attribution & a CC-BY-SA licence. Please share far & wide and translate it into any language you can! Details in the thread below. #Covid_19 #COVID2019 #COVID19 #coronavirus Thanks to @XTOTL@twitter.com & @TheSpinoffTV@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/SiouxsieW/status/1237275231783284736
Sombrero Galaxy, crab nebula, Whirlpool Galaxy, Omega centauri were the highlights.
Went for sky gazing trip yday, with a nice group. Wonderful location with dark bortle 1 skies.
Just made some watermelon and Sprite mocktail on a whim. #worthAtry
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@uncertainquark@mastodon.xyz and the conversions seem to be sorted by difference in scale 👌
Planning to convert my home made Newtonian telescope into a truss tube design!
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#Librem5 backers in the Birch batch have started sharing unboxing photos https://azdle.net/2019/11/librem-5-unboxing/ (attached CC-BY 2.0) videos https://peertube.co.uk/videos/watch/55eece8c-2d6c-4da3-8c8c-895217d66e2a and positive early impressions https://www.reddit.com/r/Purism/comments/e2mqgb/i_have_my_librem_5_ama/ thank you to all our supporters for your patience and excitement 😀
Instructions to de-google a #LineageOS installation: https://www.reddit.com/r/LineageOS/comments/cl5c90/degoogling_lineageos_instructions_august_2019/
@uncertainquark@mastodon.xyz hey hi. Just trying this out.
Joined Nov 2019
