leimon @leimon@librem.one

@purism I suppose while I am dreaming out loud here, I should be more specific. I think what the world needs is an electric equivalent of the original VW Beetle. More specifically, it should be simplistic, affordable, and should be repairable by a single person within their garage.

@purism Ugh... looks like the future of cars is going to suck.

I know this seriously wasn't the point you were trying to make but, how about after you guys finish up with your upcoming tablet release. Why not at least evaluate the feasibility of making a repairable, privacy respecting electric car that doesn't do the whole vendor lock-in thing. I've heard that the people at zero motorcycles have teamed up with other companies before to make electric cars.

Anyhow, keep up the good work!

@kyle I'd love to read the article but, what an annoying paywall... Anyhow, I can certainly see the parallels even without reading the details.

@mntmn I mainly read phoronix.com and osnews.com for that sort of content.

@ajmartinez I'm glad to hear that those are finally appearing in the wild. I ordered one quite some time ago, but I don't know when they will get shipping mine... Maybe it'll be some time this month *crosses fingers*.

@mntmn The FP3 has a seriously great hardware design. Please do take inspiration from it.

Unfortunately, I personally just can't in good faith purchase another Android phone when companies like purism and pine64 are releasing real Linux phones.

@reality2cast @katherined @dsearls @kyle Another great episode! I particularly liked the section about privacy/tracking.

I do wonder if perhaps http is in a sense inherently broken in this respect. I find myself thinking that something like the #gemini protocol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol) may be one the only viable directions away from this mess.

I guess one big question on that is, is it possible to operate a storefront over gemini given its design restrictions?

@mntmn Right now I see the biggest gaps in open/privacy respecting hardware actually being in the tablet and ereader space. So I might suggest something in the form factor of either the ipad mini, or a smaller 6" ereader device.

You could then further extend the utility of the device by having a pogo pin connector on the back/side, allowing for an attached keyboard or other mods. Anyhow, that's my two cents.

@linmob Question for next PineTalk podcast:

So, I ordered a pine phone from the latest batch, which is due to ship by the end of the month IIRC. The question is, what would be your top three recommendations of which OS to run on it and why?

I should also state that I really don't want to cause a flame war here, I just want to get an honest evaluation of the current state of the best OSes for the pine phone. Thanks in advance!

@dos @merge @purism I really like the implications of this post. Great work team!

@manjarolinux@botsin.space Ya know, I've been waiting on my Librem 5 order for so long that I might just pick one of these up.

Thanks for the heads up.