Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

The first picture doesn't really capture the scale of this orange, but how about the fact that it can wear an N95 mask.

We just picked a massive navel orange from our tree today. Normal-sized meyer lemon and quarter for scale.

Oh also I forgot to mention what opensnitch was. It's similar to Little Snitch on Macs, but for Linux. It tracks outgoing network connections and throws up prompts so you can allow/deny them. https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch/

The recent opensnitch packages seem to run well and fit on the Librem 5! Good use of scroll bars and other UI elements.

Old and Busted: "If you aren't paying for something, you are the product."

New Hotness: "You are the product."

Check out my post about companies across industries who double dip by collecting and selling data on their paying customers. ⁨#privacy

https://social.librem.one/@purism/105877195253681981

The year is 2060. A bored teenager sits quietly while grandpa shows off his vast cryptocurrency and NFT collection. Grandpa proudly gives him a dogecoin. "Hold on to this! It will be valuable one day..." "Sure thing grandpa..."

It turns out that software is "curl | sh" all the way down: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/more-top-tier-companies-targeted-by-new-type-of-potentially-serious-attack/

3. I work from home, but if I commuted (and the Librem 5 could replace my work laptop) I wouldn't need to commute w/ a laptop *or* a dock. Hubs and laptop docks are cheap enough I could leave one at home and one at work. Any work in transit I could handle directly from the phone.

2. Keeping a laptop w/ you at all times when traveling is a pain. It's easy to keep a phone w/ you. When I travel again, I can safely leave my laptop dock behind in a hotel room. If someone steals it while it's unattended I'm also out much less money than with a laptop.

1. Having not just all your data with you on a single device, but having *running apps* using that data that can migrate to and from larger screens. Often I dock so I can expand an app I'm already using right then to the larger screen. Handy for multi-tab web research and email.

Some people ask me what the advantage is to using a Librem 5 + laptop dock instead of just carrying a laptop around. After all, the dock is a similar same size and weight to a laptop. I discussed some advantages in my recent article, but here are a few others:

Maybe it's because I recently read Mrs. Dalloway and by comparison Woolf handled the same approach (stream of consciousness inside various characters' minds during a single day) masterfully. By comparison Ulysses is a self-indulgent slog in need of an editor.

I gave Ulysses a chance but after 170 pages I still really don't like it so I'm moving on. I now understand the quote (attributed by many to Dorothy Parker): "This is not a book to be lightly thrown aside. It should be thrown with great force."

All week as we were preparing this article all I could think was: "No disassemble! No disassemble Librem 5!"

https://social.librem.one/@purism/105832956079998854

Pretty messed up that a mom had to have this conversation w/ their 7-yr-old: "Every time you ride your bike down this block, there are probably 50 cameras that watch you going past. If you make a bad choice, those cameras will catch you." #privacy https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/02/ring-camera-fears/