Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

You see, Haynes has made tweaks to this sock over the last two decades and I'm in a special position to notice each of these changes since I don't mate my socks.

First they altered how far down the toe the grey goes. Then they extended the grey to run along the full bottom of the sock (an improvement). Most recently, they have followed the cost-cutting trend of making fabric thinner so the last few years of socks have been significantly thinner.

Over 20yrs ago my grandmother started an annual tradition of giving me a new package of socks for Christmas. Each year I would actually look forward to this gift. This steady supply of new socks were more than enough to replenish the socks that wore out, especially with the original sock design.

A thread on one of my biggest #lifehacks and changing SOC(k) compliance standards:

Over 20 yrs ago I decided to standardize on one type of sock: white cotton Haynes with grey toe and heel and red toe stitching. While I own dress and boot socks, 99.9% of the time I wear these socks.

There are many benefits to this approach:
* No need to mate socks
* If a sock has a hole, throw it away and grab another from the drawer
* Due to family, I haven't ever had to buy these socks myself

Since I'm running real Linux on my #Librem5 phone, I'm having thoughts like: should I host NextCloud from it? Maybe a Tor hidden service? OnionShare? My phone *is* always on after all, hosting personal services (optionally w/ a front-end cache on my regular server) might make sense...

6. sudo systemctl start openvpn@client.service
7. sudo systemctl status openvpn@client.service to test
8. sudo systemctl enable openvpn@client.service to persist reboots
9. ip addr on Librem 5 to see what IP it got

Steps:
1. Follow an online guide to set up openvpn server on home computer, use ifconfig-pool-persist setting so IPs persist
2. Use same guide, generate client config for your Librem 5
3. add tls-version-min 1.0 to client config if server is older version of openvpn
4. apt install openvpn on Librem 5
5. Copy client.conf and client certs to /etc/openvpn on Librem 5

Set up openvpn on my #Librem5 #Chestnut so I could ssh into it from my home network (keys only) regardless of the cellular/wifi network I'm on.

Mutt running natively on my #Librem5 #Chestnut phone--just needed to install the deb and scp my mutt settings from a different computer. #livingthedream

I'm pleased with the speakerphone speaker--playing music using Lollypop is surprisingly loud and clear. I think this would make an acceptable boombox while walking down the street...

Update: I just received my first inbound spam call! I can't wait until I get one of those scam calls from "Apple support"...

It's happening! I already moved my SIM over so I can treat it as my main phone. #Librem5 #Chestnut

Overheard someone at the Target return counter returning a gift because they thought it was creepy that it listened to them. There's hope. #privacy

I made some croissants from scratch for the holidays. Laminating dough is a lot of work but so worth it.

This article acts like robots are ruining the personal touch of handwritten notes, but they are merely replacing human workers. My mom has impeccable penmanship and used to make extra money over the holidays with this kind of work. #automation https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/12/21/art-imperfection-people-are-turning-robots-write-their-handwritten-cards/

TIL that the hot fashion trend in winter wear this year is a coat with Wookie fur on the outside. Star Wars promotion? #chewiecouture

Fun rhetorical challenge for you:

Describe/explain something technical so that someone non-technical can understand it, but also so that someone technical can't criticize it for being imprecise.

This is exactly the kind of #privacy problem we are trying to solve with the Librem 5 on multiple fronts, hardware and software.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/19/opinion/location-tracking-cell-phone.html

Important read. Unless more people push harder for #privacy from the companies that collect and sell our data and the govts that buy it, the rest of the world will follow in China's footsteps--the tech (and largely, the will) is already here.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/technology/china-surveillance.html

I mean, seriously, how many places out there have engineers who develop an M.2 breakout board to debug their phone and then release the schematics so you can make one for your own phone? It's basically Hogwarts over here @purism -- I'm surrounded by wizards.

https://source.puri.sm/eric.kuzmenko/librem5-m2-breakout