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In this issue we look into the software development of Librem 5 phone and of #Phosh, the popular graphical environment for Linux phones. And booths are back! We are happy to discuss #FreeSoftware in person again.

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This is a nice idea, but if you want to increase phone longevity and reduce e-waste, mandate software security updates for however long you mandate hardware repair. Otherwise anyone who cares about security will still throw away their 3-year-old phone. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/0

“I think people are going to have to make a decision on whether we want [free technology and apps],” he said. “But we can’t have that and at the same time say, ‘I’m a private person, so you can’t look at any of that.’ That just seems crazy.”

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A very telling part of this story about police using Fog to access cell location data w/o a warrant is the prosecutor's assessment that giving up your is the trade-off for getting free apps. Aligns w/ Big Tech's view. apnews.com/article/technology-

Federal regulations require me to warn you that Waydroid on Librem 5... is looking pretty good!

Truck spills 150000 tomatoes on freeway, leaving a lot of catch-up for motorists and highway patrol. bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada

Fortunately I was able to save the food using the fridges in my camper van, which doubles as a general-purpose disaster response tool.

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Woke up to a room temp fridge, proper temp freezer. Had to empty everything and thaw out freezer as I suspected frost was stopping condensor fan. Sure enough a few hours of thawing fixed it.

I just purchased the 10 mAH from @purism and I thought it would be useful to show it's size compared to the #librem5 and #pinephone / #pinephonepro .

MUCH smaller than the one I have been carrying around!

Curiously, there is a microUSB port on the side, but it seems to charge from the front USB-C port just fine too.

@shortwavesurfer2009@cheeseburger.social The phone was locked and my dad was deceased so I didn't have the unlock code, so I assumed a standard factory reset would resolve it like it had on past Android phones. It was only when I was going through that initial setup wizard that I ran into the brick wall that is FRP.

If you collect and use vintage ⁨⁩ I recommend adding a Stahly live blade to your collection. Using a hand-cranked, clockwork vibrating razor seems weird at first, but each time mine come up in my rotation I get excellent shaves

@JohanEmpa Lovely collection they have there! That last disassembled one looks like an electro-mechanical Friden. That's one I don't (yet) have in my collection!

I understand the security reasoning for the feature. I just also understand that cooling the secondary market with uncertainty about used phones is likely a stronger motivator for the feature than reducing theft.

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I tried to repurpose my deceased father's old phone into an audiobook player. I discovered Android's Factory Reset Protection in the process. How do you Android users put up with this? (I know how, you just buy a new phone.) Another phone going into e-waste...

Today I am enjoying the beach!

Thanks to automatic high-contrast mode in #Phosh I can still waste time on the internet 😂

Run
gsettings set sm.puri.phosh automatic-high-contrast true
to enable it, and you can also adjust the

gsettings set sm.puri.phosh automatic-high-contrast-threshold <number>

Thanks @agx for this useful feature!

I may need to pause this restoration for a bit. It is looking like I may need to replace my alternator in my pickup and I only want one disassembled machine lying around at a time.

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