Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@0x1C3B00DA This is a discontinued Nexdock 2. It currently works w/ an external hub in "Raspberry Pi mode". The (also now discontinued) Nexdock Touch works directly with a USB-C cable but touchscreen doesn't (yet) work. It seems each model has differences in how it negotiates, which requires a lot of testing and troubleshooting for our team, so I can't say ahead of time how well the next model will work.

@Azt3c It's not a laptop, but a Librem 5 phone attacked to a Nexdock2 laptop dock. All the software is running on the Librem 5, the laptop shell is just providing a display, keyboard, mouse, and battery

@rgk @crunklord420 The phone is driving the "laptop" as the laptop dock is just a display, battery, keyboard and mouse in a laptop shell with no CPU of its own.

I attached a USB-C hub to my laptop dock using a flattened IKEA bracket and some 3M tape. Now I can easily use it and see both screens from my lap. A bit hacky but it works.

@jlcrawf That phrase wasn't a happy coincidence :) #punalwaysintended

I was *this* close to writing up a parody of Britney Spears's "Toxic" covering today's news story about heavy metals discovered in baby food. I restrained myself this time as it seemed like it might be in bad taste.

Chromium accounted for 60 *billion* DNS queries per day and a code change resulted in a 41% drop in global root DNS server traffic: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/04/chromium_cleanup_drops_dns_traffic/

@be @twrightsman I have a Nexdock 2, which doesn't yet work perfectly w/ just USB-C, but works in "RapsPi mode" with a hub in between. The newer Nexdock Touch (what we've used in some videos) work to some degree just w/ the USB-C cable. I think that's discontinued now though after only a few months of being available.

@twrightsman I say "almost" because I could see where with a few improvements and optimizations, that it could possibly do it. I'm already trying it out for a few hours at a time as my work laptop and so far it's been pretty promising to the point that I think it could at least replace my work laptop on trips. My maxxed-out Librem 13v4 work laptop has significantly more resources to play with of course :)

@twrightsman For my work laptop? I rely on a lot of Qubes compartmentation features for extra security at work, and replicating some of that isolation on the Librem 5 would mean running maybe 4 or 5 sandboxed Firefox instances at the same time. Having a native Matrix app w/ e2ee would remove at least one of those browsers though.

I started using my Librem 5 with a laptop dock yesterday and wow this is game changing. I'm going to use this setup instead of my personal laptop for a month. I could *almost* replace my work laptop too.

@johns For a GNU site I see an awful lot of windows.

They're gettin' jacked, I'm breakin' myself
I can't believe they takin' hedge funds' wealth
They took their rings, they took their Rolex
I looked at the Reddit, said $AG's next

Sixteen shorted stocks in portfolio
Reddit is about to make some hedge funds turn cold
Now they beggin' Janet Yellen it's a tad bit late
Hedge funds and SEC couldn't regulate

It was a clear black night, a clear white moon
Hedge funds was on Wall Street tryin' to consume
Some bets for the eve all made within my phone
Scrolling Robinhood, chillin all alone

Just hit the bad side of the SEC
On a mission tryin' to buy some $GME
Seen my app full of stocks, ain't no need to freak
All those suits know what's up with AMC

Chinese govt. probes backdoor infection: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/anal-swab-china-coronavirus/2021/01/27/cc284f56-6054-11eb-a177-7765f29a9524_story.html

Coming soon to a Librem 5 near you: support for the internal OpenPGP smart card reader.

@vincent It's just a deb we added to PureOS.

Is the problem that the govt. is buying location data w/o a warrant, or that data brokers can collect and sell it to begin with? We have to change the incentives driving the whole mobile app economy. This is something I wrote about in this article: https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-app-stores-and-the-power-of-incentives/