Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

With so many relying on video conferencing at home, it's more important than ever to disable your camera w/ a hardware kill switch when you aren't using it. If your laptop doesn't have one, cover up the camera when your call is over. #privacy https://puri.sm/learn/hardware-kill-switches/

There are many remote work guides out there, but most describe proprietary tools w/ vendor lock-in. @purism has not only been a remote workforce since the beginning, we've done it ourselves with FOSS tools. This article describes how: https://puri.sm/posts/our-essential-list-of-free-software-for-remote-work/

@ers0 I have an antique German travel safety razor with a nested handle that fits into a small square metal case. Maybe it's due to how the small metal case shows up in X-rays but I've never had a problem traveling with a single blade inside it.

The thing about shaving with safety razors and $0.10 blades is you order 100 at a time. Just checked my stock and at 2 weeks/blade I'm good for 2+ years before I have to sharpen my straight razor. #lockdown

I can't go any other place, when I think of COVID I don't touch my face.

@Torrone I was just hoping to be able to make some ales too, for a faster turnaround time.

@Torrone I have a full-sized fridge in my garage I use to store finished beer kegs so interestingly enough I'm going to the opposite approach--I set it to its warmest setting which happens to be around 50F--perfect for fermenting lagers...

My beer fermentation fridge broke and while shopping online for a replacement, I didn't expect to see panic buying of small chest freezers in the Bay Area...

@keverets This happens to be a lager so it won't be ready for awhile, but I specifically picked a lager because my small fermentation fridge broke so I'll have to warm up my keg fridge to lager fermentation temps. I might do two different batches around the same time so I can cool them down together.

One thing I was missing in my disaster preparedness kit was a keg full of homebrewed beer, so I just ordered ingredients to brew a Märzen actually *in* March for once!

@johns We still need this issue resolved before there is a new layout that uses the modifier keys though: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/issues/170

@johns It looks like the code to add modifiers has merged, but just hasn't been packaged and released yet: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/merge_requests/306

@johns Soon, but not yet. Coming in the next release I think.

Based on my INBOX, it looks like the opportunists are already taking advantage of the pandemic to market their wares.

I was able to install @micahflee 's dangerzone package on my #Librem5 and w/ some QT tweaks the main screen fits (other screens need more work). It uses an amd64 Docker image so I need an arm64 image to actually clean docs, but it was nice that I got as far as I did without much effort.

A: WHO announced Covid-19 is a pandemic
C: That's what I want to find out
A: I say the pandemic was announced by WHO
C: You mean you don't know?
A: Well I should
C: Then who announced it?
A: Yes

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/covid-19-is-a-pandemic-who-declares/

Now that so many places have been forced to build and use the telecommuting infrastructure/practices you must have to make it a success, I wonder how many will finally see the benefits and shift to it long-term.

In retrospect, this Heads talk is probably the driest presentation I've ever given. Sorry about that folks, next one will be better.

I just realized that #SCALE18x marks the 10th year I've attended and spoken at SCALE. My first presentation was an Introduction to Forensics talk at SCALE8x.