Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

When we say the #Librem5 is a mobile computer in your pocket, this is what we mean.

One of our customers (@primalmotion) hacks on custom versions of #PureBoot firmware for their #Librem14 which always runs the risk of temporarily bricking your computer.

When that did inevitably happen, they were able to connect their Librem 5 to their hardware flashing equipment and run the same tools you'd run on your Linux laptop to re-flash working firmware.

@civilized I found in many organizations there were limits to the positive change I could make at the company if I only contributed in a technical way, and much less say in what that technical work was.

Moving into management gave me a seat at the table for important decisions that would impact technical direction and my team's day-to-day work, but I have also mostly worked at orgs that are small enough that I can still pick technical projects and contribute there as well.

@aral Happy Birthday!

@robchahin And people who lived in big cities pre-pandemic who then moved to small towns or homesteads.

@HilaryDoda I would love to read it. Please do link to it once it is published!

@freiheit Interesting, how long ago was that?

@Viss If you are concerned about posting about it because people might not want to see it, then just wrap it in a content warning so interested folks can read it and others can have it scroll off the timeline.

@shawnp0wers @katherined @Wildbill When it "goes off the rails"

@Wildbill @shawnp0wers @katherined Interesting! At least for my own server the maintenance has been relatively minimal. Mostly the kind of things you'd expect running any small service.

@Wildbill As someone who administers his own email (which is pretty low effort at this point), I suspect if you don't want to do that you definitely wouldn't want to set up your own instance. From what I've heard from @shawnp0wers it seems like a fair amount of effort.

@Wildbill
I recently saw this tip in my feed for a way to make it work:
https://infosec.exchange/@tychotithonus/109288715727881237

@hehemrin That approach makes sense to me. Up to this post essentially all of my posts went to both platforms (and writing for Purism generally serves my blogging needs). I could definitely see myself start tailoring more posts on a per-platform basis in the future.

@lwriemen Good question! Likely closer to a town since this instance has somewhat unusual rules (no federated/local timelines, no DMs) which, while we think has a lot of benefits, isn't for everyone.

@lcamtuf I've also always wondered just how many of my posts were actually seen by my followers there and how many were buried by The Algorithm since the default was sorting by relevance. On here I know folks who follow me will likely see everything I post if they check in frequently enough.

Given how easy it is to move to a different Mastodon instance, it will be interesting to see in the coming months to see how many new folks will live in the "big cities", how many will move to small towns, and how many will start their own homesteads. #fediverse

@fssofdeath Ya I always preferred Mastodon, I just had to straddle both worlds because many of the folks I follow were there. I imagine I will still be there for awhile while I wait for remaining folks I follow to make the move, but in the mean time my personal priorities and use has definitely shifted.