Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@johns Exactly. It reminds me so much of how I felt with my own N900, with the additional excitement of convergence down the road that might mean I can ditch my travel laptop and just have this and maybe a simple laptop dock.

@zachir No idea, but that isn't really my area of expertise.

My grandmother passed away two Christmases ago and as I opened my last package of socks from her, my mom assured me that they had worked out before her death that my mom would take over the tradition.

I mention all of this because now with Haynes's cost-cutting measures, these socks are wearing out much more quickly than past designs so I'm starting to wonder whether one package/yr is enough. With a fresh package in my drawer, I guess I can worry about that next year...

You see, Haynes has made tweaks to this sock over the last two decades and I'm in a special position to notice each of these changes since I don't mate my socks.

First they altered how far down the toe the grey goes. Then they extended the grey to run along the full bottom of the sock (an improvement). Most recently, they have followed the cost-cutting trend of making fabric thinner so the last few years of socks have been significantly thinner.

Over 20yrs ago my grandmother started an annual tradition of giving me a new package of socks for Christmas. Each year I would actually look forward to this gift. This steady supply of new socks were more than enough to replenish the socks that wore out, especially with the original sock design.

A thread on one of my biggest #lifehacks and changing SOC(k) compliance standards:

Over 20 yrs ago I decided to standardize on one type of sock: white cotton Haynes with grey toe and heel and red toe stitching. While I own dress and boot socks, 99.9% of the time I wear these socks.

There are many benefits to this approach:
* No need to mate socks
* If a sock has a hole, throw it away and grab another from the drawer
* Due to family, I haven't ever had to buy these socks myself

@blacklight447 Just off the top of my head: perhaps at home you'd spawn a file share to more easily sync files on the fast local network. Perhaps on untrusted wifi you disable any exposed services, and route everything through Tor automatically. Maybe at conferences you host a "where am I right now?" service w/ your friends.

@blacklight447 I also like the idea of automatically spawning opportunistic services based on state (on home wifi, on untrusted wifi, etc.)

@blacklight447 It'll all depend on how much the services wake up and how many resources they use when idle, I suppose. This is also where front-end caches on another server come in.

@don There's some "because I can" involved, but also I like the idea of hosting personal services on my personal computer since it's always on and online. With a stable front-end server acting as a cache, it could be a pretty powerful combination for private services fully under your control.

@GH0S1 I imagine it will depend on traffic. Front-end cache/proxy could help there

Since I'm running real Linux on my #Librem5 phone, I'm having thoughts like: should I host NextCloud from it? Maybe a Tor hidden service? OnionShare? My phone *is* always on after all, hosting personal services (optionally w/ a front-end cache on my regular server) might make sense...

@magico I already have openvpn set up at home and have been using it for years. It wasn't worth ripping all of that up (and changing all my current clients) just to use the current trend. Maybe some day.

6. sudo systemctl start openvpn@client.service
7. sudo systemctl status openvpn@client.service to test
8. sudo systemctl enable openvpn@client.service to persist reboots
9. ip addr on Librem 5 to see what IP it got

Steps:
1. Follow an online guide to set up openvpn server on home computer, use ifconfig-pool-persist setting so IPs persist
2. Use same guide, generate client config for your Librem 5
3. add tls-version-min 1.0 to client config if server is older version of openvpn
4. apt install openvpn on Librem 5
5. Copy client.conf and client certs to /etc/openvpn on Librem 5

Set up openvpn on my #Librem5 #Chestnut so I could ssh into it from my home network (keys only) regardless of the cellular/wifi network I'm on.

Mutt running natively on my #Librem5 #Chestnut phone--just needed to install the deb and scp my mutt settings from a different computer. #livingthedream

I'm pleased with the speakerphone speaker--playing music using Lollypop is surprisingly loud and clear. I think this would make an acceptable boombox while walking down the street...

Update: I just received my first inbound spam call! I can't wait until I get one of those scam calls from "Apple support"...

@zemmert Matrix seems to work both with the native Chatty app, and from what I hear, with the Fractal flatpak. I don't have details on specific supported features within those programs though and haven't tested personally.