Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

When butchering spare ribs St. Louis style, you separate the bottom section where the bones are from the top along a natural bend. There's a long, narrow flap of meat between them you remove that cooks hours before the rest and serves as a chef's snack (pictured on the right).

@craftyguy The BBQ is a 22" Weber kettle with a "cajun bandit" mod. I've been using it for years with success. The "BBQube" I got for Christmas. It's a basic blower fan and series of thermometers with a simple LCD readout.

Breaking in my new "BBQube" temperature controller on a few racks of St. Louis style pork spare ribs. #BBQ

@fribbledom Not universally but when it's important, definitely.

@owingst We have shown it in a few convergence videos on our YouTube and LBRY channels. It obviously won't render as fast as a recent desktop computer but apparently works when docked.

@owingst octoprint has included a cura plugin for some time that lets you upload an stl through the web UI and slice it directly on the rpi. It shows 3d views, lets you tweak settings. It's great and I never use slicers on my computer anymore. Sadly they deprecated it.

@owingst I like octoprint quite a bit. It's nice having a standalone rpi managing my printer w/ a web UI to monitor the print including via the rpi camera. I also use the web-based slicer even though some people these days recommend recent cura instead.

@owingst Ya, so it's easy to add things like hostapd after the fact.

I have Raspberry Pis scattered around my house wired to my network performing various tasks (like controlling 3D printers). Since they are always on anyway, I'm turning some of them into WiFi APs to extend WiFi coverage where there is weak signal.

@ajmartinez Hmm then it sounds like there may not be all that much room for further optimizations there. That matters less on, say, a Librem 14, but would have more of an impact on battery life on the Librem 5 I would *think* but I suppose I could test just how much of an impact.

Since that article was written there's been additional research on using other sensors (ambient light, gyroscope, etc) for tracking, which is why we implemented lockdown mode in the Librem 5 so you have an option to turn it all off.

This guide from Grugq is a great overview for phone privacy and applies even if you have a phone with hardware kill switches for the modem, or a user-swappable modem like in the Librem 5. While those things might make certain steps easier, you still have to keep all the correlation in mind.

https://grugq.github.io/blog/2014/02/10/a-fistful-of-surveillance/

@unl0ckd I thought it was dead too, but I looked at it again recently and it turns out development has picked up: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/releases/

OpenSnitch update: I disabled it on my Librem 5 because it kept a CPU pretty busy at all times, even when idle. I'll keep checking new releases as they come out for improvements. Until then I'll enable it opportunistically whenever I need to increase defenses.

I just learned VLC in Linux can stream videos to a Chromecast. One more task my Librem 5 can take over from my old Android phone.

@koherecoWatchdog @eliasr All your points make sense to me. For what it's worth I'm not angry, just a bit surprised, so it's more just a case of trying to fix this for the future at this point.