Joshua Crawford has moved @jlcrawf@librem.one

@holybear
https://fortune.com/2023/03/12/all-silicon-valley-bank-depositors-will-be-fully-protected-federal-reserve-janet-yellen-fdic/

@starlily @omglinux
It is endorsed by the Free Software Foundation.
I am not a fan of it though.. I had it on a computer and wanted to install python for a specific app. It blocked the install of python because it can be used yo install non-free software. It can also be used to install free software which is what I was doing. IMO, Trisquel does not respect my freedom to install software of my choosing on my pc.

@rbreich
Wasn't it the Democrats that just bailed out a bunch of millionaires when they knowingly had more money in the bank than the FDIC insurance would cover?

@malwaretech As a working class conservative who will actually retire as a millionaire without winning the lottery or coming up with that one "great" idea, let me explain how.
First, I graduated college debt free. I took 8 years to graduate, and worked as a janitor cleaning toilets so that I could pay for it as I went.
Then, I avoided debt through the rest of my life. I buy old, used cars with cash and I don't try to live like I have money that I don't.

@malwaretech
Then I bought a house that was a fixer upper, but it allowed me to by it cheaper and get it paid off quickly. I now have my own home, no debt, and I put 15% of my income into a Roth 401k. I will retire as a millionaire without hitting the lottery or doing anything crazy. All it takes is hard work and patience.
You do not have to steal money from some billionaire to get rich. You do not have to win the lottery to get rich. All you have to do is work hard and be patient.

@malwaretech
Having read through all of the replies to this thread, I think that I understand why you and everyone else are baffled by working class conservatives (or conservatives in general). I am convinced by reading through this thread, that you and everyone else in this thread with the exception of one, have never actually met a conservative whether working class or not. Everyone in this thread simply likes to stay in their bubble and choose to hate something they have never met.

@dos
Happy to hear it. Eventually, I will find time to get on the forums and get my vpn and hotspot worked out. Then I should be pretty close to all set up.

@fabrice
I never had a good quality phone call on the pro. The people on the other end would hear their own echo which was very distracting to them. Other than that, they are pretty close. I do also like the hardware kill switches in an accessible location. I never used them on the pro.

@hans @purism
I had begun to feel that way myself. Hang in there. My guess is that they will be caught up with their backlog by August. (I've been wrong about that guess many times, so take it with a grain of salt.)

@amerika
Yeah, same here. The couch was a new experience though.

Overall, I really love the Librem. It is a vast improvement over the pinephone/pinephonepro. I liked my pinephones also, but the librem is just a much better phone.
I am starting my third year with a linux phone and I have no plans of going back. Especially now that I have the librem.
This phone is almost to the point that I could recommend it to some people. I am hopeful that by the end of this year, I might actually could start to recommed it.

Also, updates that improve the phone rather than slow it down. I saw this with the pinephone also. The updates improved battery life and performance over time.
Removeable battery, wifi card, and modem. The modularity of the phone makes it so that it can be upgraded overtime. Already, I have the upgraded wireless card that they started shipping at first of the year. This is apparently one of the things that they have done that has improved battery life as well as performance.

Now the good.
It runs Linux. Not android, not iOS, Linux.
It is not laden down with spyware. I don't get creepy ads about something I just talked about.
It is convergent also. I was able to hook up a keyboard, mouse and monitor so that I could remote into a clients computer and assist them from my phone.
Hardware kill switches. I can physically turn off the modem, wifi, bluetooth, camera, and microphone using hardware kill switches.

@amerika
Does it have to be a goat, my dog ate my couch during last month, I could sacrifice him!

Finally, I have been unable to get my wifi hotspot to work, and my vpn connects but it doesn't seem as if my internet is going through the vpn when on cellular. I haven't tried it on wifi yet.
The weird thing is that the wifi hotspot kind of works if I tell it to use the vpn for internet. At that point, it seems somewhat like a dns issue, but I am not sure yet.