Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

If you are going to #SCALE18x this weekend check out my talk on Saturday at 15:00 titled "Heads: Tamper-evident Firmware with User-controlled Keys" #infosec https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/18x/presentations/heads-tamper-evident-firmware-user-controlled-keys

@jk07301029 I'm running some errands and thought you might find the power estimations interesting. I also use the wifi killswitch when I'm out since it saves a lot of power.

@johns I came to drop some Metallica song puns, but was pleased to see the band was way ahead of me.

While The Invisible Man looks interesting, I can't stomach watching Elisabeth Moss get abused any more. I stopped watching the 2nd season of Handmaid's Tale for the same reason.

@jk07301029 I don't know of a particular # of hours that is set as a goal, instead we are approaching it like you might expect: tackle the lowest-hanging fruit one at a time w/ maximum battery life as the goal. Whether you should invest in an external powerbank depends on so many personal factors (and battery life with your use case) it'd be hard for me to say.

@jk07301029 I've seen steady progress with updates here and there adding another 10-20 minutes each time. There are still a ton of optimizations (like auto backlight adjustment) we haven't finished yet so in many areas it's still running at 100%, but even w/ that and the 2000mAh battery I'd say about 3 hrs. I work from home so it's mostly charging on a stand I 3d printed next to my desk while I work.

It seems to last when I go out and run errands, go out to dinner, etc.

I saw a Sonic truck up the block completing the fiber endpoint that they ran past my house last weekend. I was so excited I went up to give them some praise and see if they wanted coffee or anything. #gigfiber #itshappening

@mrbaraban You can use gsettings on the command like just like with a regular Gnome desktop, or install Eye of Gnome and open an image with it, then tell Eye of Gnome to set the image as the desktop background.

The latest changes to hit the #Librem5 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.

Apparently when you move a registered Google Fi SIM to a new phone w/o re-registering it w/ the Fi app, incoming SMS have 16 random chars appended to the end. I assume registration causes local apps to hide the text. I wonder what Google is using those strings for?

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectFi/comments/5k3h9t/texts_ending_with_tilde_and_random_letters/

Something I was proud that we did at Linux Journal was support customer privacy to the point we rejected the giant ecosystem of ad trackers dominating the industry.

It is hard (and costly) to do and I'm pleased to see The Markup take a similar stand:

https://themarkup.org/2020/02/25/president-letter-nabiha-syed

@leimon I used a converted Weber Kettle that's a lot like a Weber Smokey Mountain. I'm not a big fan of the pellet smokers because they require you to buy special proprietary fuel.

Having brisket for dinner yesterday meant waking up at 2am to put the meat in the smoker by 3. After a 13 hour smoke and an hour rest, it was perfect. I think I've finally figured out my technique. #bbq #brisketlogistics

@zachir That extra few hundred is going directly into paying full-time developers to develop PureOS for the Librem 5. To my understanding pinephone is relying on existing community projects for mobile OS builds and I'm not aware of a community effort to port PureOS (but that doesn't mean one doesn't exist).

Going with the theme of things that can be intimidating, are tough to get into, have a point, take a lot of time and dedication to finish, yet are so worth it, I present a whole beef brisket in a New Yorker tote bag. #BBQ

A powerful thing about the #Librem5 running PureOS instead of a mobile-specific OS is that existing desktop apps run w/o porting to a new platform, some just need UI tweaks to fit on the screen. GNUcash works out of the box in landscape mode both without the toolbar at default scaling and with the toolbar scaled 1.5x.

"Rankin warned that tech giants were now "redefining the word "privacy" in their own marketing." While they may claim to protect it, what they really want is to protect privacy from their competitors, he added. "They add security measures to their software and services so only they can capture, view and sell all of your data and others can't.""

https://www.dw.com/en/smartphone-startups-take-on-google-apple-and-put-privacy-first/a-52369255