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"Libhandy was the start, but both Tobias and Purism and the GNOME development team have plans to go a step further to transform the interface of the desktop environment into the future." - explica.co/this-is-mobile-shel

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“It seems to me that a tiny minority of people on this planet have no bigger problems to solve for themselves, than to deal with rocket ships and immortality”. Not what you'd expect from a podcast on e-waste and the #RightToRepair. Have a listen 🎙️: frphn.co/62oBk

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The latest changes to hit the staging repo have dramatically increased my quality of life. First, Chatty now can use the haptic motor so I get vibration notifications w/ messages. Second, the top menu bar now features quick access to more settings.

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Yesterday I received my #Librem5 from @purism! Today I had fun with it, here are some photos:
- the default applications
- the Fractal @matrix client
- the Komikku webcomic reader
- the terminal application

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Shouldn't we care about repairing our planet before colonising other ones?

This is one of the questions Matthias Huisken (CEO @iFixitEU@twitter.com) shares on our FairPodcast: Right to repair, e-waste and interplanetary travel.

Want to know more? Have a listen: frphn.co/RepairPodcast

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Today marks the end of the Aspen shipping batch for the Librem 5 smartphone. We are compiling together details about that, and information about the upcoming Birch batch to keep all of you up to date and in the know on shipping progress -- will be posted later this week!

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"Selling a smartphone is a cutthroat business, and we've seen dozens of companies try and fail over the years. Purism didn't just survive long enough to ship a product—it survived in what is probably the hardest way possible, by building a non-Android phone with demands that all the hardware components use open code. Making it this far is an amazing accomplishment."

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"The Librem 5 is unlike anything else on the market. Not only is it one of the only smartphones on Earth that doesn't ship with Android, a fork of Android, or iOS—Purism's commitment to 100% open software, with no binary blobs..." arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/0

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"The Librem 5 is, arguably, the first smartphone available that focuses on privacy and security because it does not exploit nor track the user’s digital footprint. The Librem 5 features, hardware kill switches, layered security protection, decentralized and IP-native communication, user-controlled sourced code, and hardware encryption." fosslinux.com/21079/long-antic

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The first Librem 5 smartphones are shipping puri.sm/posts/first-librem-5-s “This is a big moment, not just for us as a company, but for everyone concerned about issues of privacy, security, and user freedom. The Librem 5 represents years of work, building the software and hardware required to make this phone a reality.” - Todd Weaver, founder and CEO of

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