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Librem 5 is now $999 (a $300 Savings)! Due primarily to the overwhelming demand for the Librem 5, we were able to lower our component costs and are now able to pass that savings onto new customers.

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@epidiah

When I read these I ALWAYS assume that the app can track something that the website can't and they WANT you to use the app for that reason.

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Bonjour

J'essaie d'avoir le #roaming avec #Freemobile sur un #librem5

Ma nano sim fonctionne bien en France mais dès que je passe en Suisse où se trouve mon employeur je n'arrive pas à basculer.

Est ce que quelqu'un a testé cela sur une autre zone frontalière avec ce téléphone ou même un autre ?

Reboost apprécié

@worldsendless glad I could help out, hope it works out well for you

BTW, act is (or will be?) included in gitea as their actions runner; that's how I found out about it

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People think that "It's OK for people to just want technology to work" (which it is) is like saying "It's OK for people to not know things" (which it is). But to the extent that they're saying it to argue against technologists advocating for open technology, it's humanity-defeating and just a fucking strawman.

The technologists are complaining about abusive designs that manipulate people by making the path of least resistance the one that, for example, destroys the concept of privacy.

When you respond to that with "well not everybody needs to understand everything," What you're actually saying is "It's OK for people to be MANIPULATED into maintaining their ignorance."

These companies have worked very hard to create a culture where computers are magic boxes to most people, so the vast majority of users remain vulnerable. You're not countercultural for thinking that's a good thing. You're a fucking mark.

I liked these quotes:

> It's not that I have something to hide. I have nothing I want you to see.

> You invade my privacy, it's nothing. I try to get it back, it's a crime.

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Sure, Android might be "Open Source" good luck trying to tweak part of the core system without having to build and re-flash the ENTIRE OS, and probably format your phone.

Android was not built to be modified by anyone who doesn't use the term "end user" on a near daily basis.

and like, damn girl, we can do better than this

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There is a long standing issue in (the compositor used with (but as I recently learned also other projects like ) that makes windows flip their size when crossing a screen edge (as tiling is (incorrectly) kicking in). This makes dragging windows around in docked mode harder than necessary.

This is about to improve and (thanks to the ground work over the past months) we can also add some visual feedback:

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it's cute when websites think I would turn off my ad blocker rather than just leaving the page

so I received my just over 4 months agok. In that time it went from "this is probably going to join another Linux phone in the drawer" to something somewhat usable. Still not a daily driver but a lot of that is on me. Time to re-evaluate my digital serfdom, little by little.

It took me a month but I finally got used to the thickness and weight. Even better, it doesn't heat up as much anymore, and suspend is slowly getting better.

initial impressions after 3 days:
- thick, heavy, warm, we all know it
- I was expecting performance to be worse than it is. Aside from JS heavy sites, no complaints so far. Didn't try to run heavy apps like LibreOffice or Evolution.
- the openpgp smartcard is nice! Already using it for my password mgr and for ssh, now I want to do the same on my other devices
- dino v0.3+ is great on mobile
- is great but needs some work/better lapdokck than ND2
- charges very slowly

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