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The link provided points to my random photos and videos I was shooting in varying conditions as I went through my life, posted on my personal social media accou

The link provided points to my random photos and videos I was shooting in varying conditions as I went through my life, posted on my personal social media account, usually with minimal to no post-hoc processing. Not sure what is up with you here.

handedness 1mo ago
Every time someone says we need a better open Linux phone, the Librem 5 and PinePhone crowd shows up to tell us not to believe our lying eyes, that our standards (which are already more open to tradeoffs than the general public's are) are wrong, that they love daily driving a device and therefore extrapolate that into some kind of viability as a commercial offering for anything other than novelty hobbyists. They're fun photos and some of them are of pretty decent technical quality considering the device used, but switching from iOS/Android to Linux phone of the Librem 5 or PinePhone (/Pro) variety is a bag of hurt for anyone who isn't so committed they're willing to craft their personality around it with an almost religious-like zeal. That's what's up with me here. Still, I appreciate your photos. Edit: Check the comments. You've got a guy saying the PinePhone Pro is "there." Except, it's bad as a phone. Minor detail. I stated the camera isn't up to snuff for me, your photos are the best counterexample anyone's posted, and they still aren't up to snuff for me. Also, decent video isn't optional in 2026. I remember upgrading a BlackBerry to finally get decent video. The whole thing is so fundamentally constrained that it will never be more than a niche novelty, barring new hardware and massively better supported. But that doesn't stop the shilling. It's bizarre.
- seba_dos1 1mo ago
  It's just as if people weren't a single hive-minded entity and they all had differing needs and opinions. Of course we need better phones. Librem 5, the one I personally still consider the best out there right now, is now 6-7 years old! It wasn't a low-end device back then, but it wasn't high-end either, and time flies. Yet at the same time I keep seeing people going "I wish we had XYZ" when XYZ was something I was enjoying all these years already. And you know, these better phones won't come out of the Santa Claus' bag. If all the people complaining about the need of better Linux phone had actually bought one, we would already have their successors in our hands. There's still a lot of work to do, but the usual reaction when people are playing with my phone is being surprised at how usable it appears ("this is a Linux phone? it looks like a normal one!"), so I do think we need to put more effort into informing people of what's already there, even if it won't satisfy everyone's needs.
  - handedness 1mo ago
    It's difficult to frame it as something that was mid-range in its time, as many, maybe most original backers probably didn't receive theirs until much later. COVID certainly compounded things and they can't be faulted for that. Purism was a case study in how not to handle delays, and faulting consumers for being overly picky or not supporting the product financially ignores the broader context. Some people may also object to buying a phone that struggled for years to...make phone calls. (And by some contemporary accounts still does.) It takes potato quality videos. It was an absolute mess as of 2025: https://forums.puri.sm/t/it-is-normal-for-the-librem-5-to-have-lots-of-bugs-and-issues-right/28763/8 https://forums.puri.sm/t/it-is-normal-for-the-librem-5-to-ha... Its existence does not obligate anyone wanting a genuinely good device to exist to contribute to that project, and it's naive to think a lack of sales is what's prevented Purism from shipping a better device.
    - seba_dos1 1mo ago
      > as many, maybe most original backers probably didn't receive theirs until much later Original backers got it in 2020-2021. It took until 2023 to catch up with preorders made already after the original campaign ended. > Purism was a case study in how not to handle delays Agreed. > faulting consumers I haven't faulted anyone. I just made a "if I had a dollar for each time..."-style remark. > It was an absolute mess as of 2025 You linked to a post about a faulty unit and about how another unit with exact same software didn't have the listed problems... > it's naive to think a lack of sales is what's prevented Purism from shipping a better device It's exactly what prevented Purism from shipping the successor so far. It's also what prevented it from keeping a whole team of developers hired that worked not just on the specific device, but on the entire software platform and whose work is now being used across various devices. The Librem 5 project was a massive cost sink that left its fingerprints all over the place across the GNU/Linux stack, and more sales was exactly what would be needed to let it continue at that pace. The reasons why it didn't sell well enough can be argued, but the inarguable fact is that more sales would bring more progress.
      - handedness 1mo ago

handedness 1mo ago

Every time someone says we need a better open Linux phone, the Librem 5 and PinePhone crowd shows up to tell us not to believe our lying eyes, that our standards (which are already more open to tradeoffs than the general public's are) are wrong, that they love daily driving a device and therefore extrapolate that into some kind of viability as a commercial offering for anything other than novelty hobbyists. They're fun photos and some of them are of pretty decent technical quality considering the device used, but switching from iOS/Android to Linux phone of the Librem 5 or PinePhone (/Pro) variety is a bag of hurt for anyone who isn't so committed they're willing to craft their personality around it with an almost religious-like zeal. That's what's up with me here. Still, I appreciate your photos. Edit: Check the comments. You've got a guy saying the PinePhone Pro is "there." Except, it's bad as a phone. Minor detail. I stated the camera isn't up to snuff for me, your photos are the best counterexample anyone's posted, and they still aren't up to snuff for me. Also, decent video isn't optional in 2026. I remember upgrading a BlackBerry to finally get decent video. The whole thing is so fundamentally constrained that it will never be more than a niche novelty, barring new hardware and massively better supported. But that doesn't stop the shilling. It's bizarre.

seba_dos1 1mo ago
It's just as if people weren't a single hive-minded entity and they all had differing needs and opinions. Of course we need better phones. Librem 5, the one I personally still consider the best out there right now, is now 6-7 years old! It wasn't a low-end device back then, but it wasn't high-end either, and time flies. Yet at the same time I keep seeing people going "I wish we had XYZ" when XYZ was something I was enjoying all these years already. And you know, these better phones won't come out of the Santa Claus' bag. If all the people complaining about the need of better Linux phone had actually bought one, we would already have their successors in our hands. There's still a lot of work to do, but the usual reaction when people are playing with my phone is being surprised at how usable it appears ("this is a Linux phone? it looks like a normal one!"), so I do think we need to put more effort into informing people of what's already there, even if it won't satisfy everyone's needs.
- handedness 1mo ago
  It's difficult to frame it as something that was mid-range in its time, as many, maybe most original backers probably didn't receive theirs until much later. COVID certainly compounded things and they can't be faulted for that. Purism was a case study in how not to handle delays, and faulting consumers for being overly picky or not supporting the product financially ignores the broader context. Some people may also object to buying a phone that struggled for years to...make phone calls. (And by some contemporary accounts still does.) It takes potato quality videos. It was an absolute mess as of 2025: https://forums.puri.sm/t/it-is-normal-for-the-librem-5-to-have-lots-of-bugs-and-issues-right/28763/8 https://forums.puri.sm/t/it-is-normal-for-the-librem-5-to-ha... Its existence does not obligate anyone wanting a genuinely good device to exist to contribute to that project, and it's naive to think a lack of sales is what's prevented Purism from shipping a better device.
  - seba_dos1 1mo ago
    > as many, maybe most original backers probably didn't receive theirs until much later Original backers got it in 2020-2021. It took until 2023 to catch up with preorders made already after the original campaign ended. > Purism was a case study in how not to handle delays Agreed. > faulting consumers I haven't faulted anyone. I just made a "if I had a dollar for each time..."-style remark. > It was an absolute mess as of 2025 You linked to a post about a faulty unit and about how another unit with exact same software didn't have the listed problems... > it's naive to think a lack of sales is what's prevented Purism from shipping a better device It's exactly what prevented Purism from shipping the successor so far. It's also what prevented it from keeping a whole team of developers hired that worked not just on the specific device, but on the entire software platform and whose work is now being used across various devices. The Librem 5 project was a massive cost sink that left its fingerprints all over the place across the GNU/Linux stack, and more sales was exactly what would be needed to let it continue at that pace. The reasons why it didn't sell well enough can be argued, but the inarguable fact is that more sales would bring more progress.
    - handedness 1mo ago