amosbatto

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by amosbatto 3y ago
Purism suffered a distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on July 29, 2023, which took down their site, as they explained on their Matrix channel and forum (when the site came back online). See: https://forums.puri.sm/t&
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by amosbatto 4y ago
> It's highly likely that you have a financial stake in the company's products because nothing else would explain your devotion to so thoroughly misleading people and marketing their products across many platforms. Let me state
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by amosbatto 4y ago
> The Librem 5 hardware is also just as much of a black box. It's 100% as proprietary. It does not have firmware or hardware that's any more open and this is a blatant lie. Them marketing the hardware as being more open is thor
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by amosbatto 4y ago
> Linux doesn't mean systemd, polkit, glibc, GCC, binutils, GNOME, pulseaudio/pipewire, Wayland/X11, etc. It makes no sense to claim these are Linux phones when the vast majority of smartphones run Linux. It's marketi
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by amosbatto 4y ago
> More developers are familiar with Android than the desktop Linux software stack. More work goes into it. Far more apps are written for it, and that includes a very active open source app ecosystem. The problem is that the Android app e
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by amosbatto 4y ago
@anw, According to the Purism forum, the shipping queue for the Librem 5 has reached people who pre-ordered on October 20-25, 2017, so you should have gotten your phone by now. You should contact Purism support to ask about your order. See:
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by amosbatto 4y ago
It depends on your goals. If you donate to the GNOME Foundation, your donation won't help develop Phosh (which is the leading mobile Linux interface according to 3 different PinePhone user surveys) and it probably won't be used to
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by amosbatto 4y ago
Xiaomi is the number one brand in Europe and India, and was the number 3 brand worldwide by unit sales in the year 2021. Xiaomi actually does the worst in its home market. It was the 4th largest brand inside China in Q3 2021, and it fell to
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by amosbatto 5y ago
> Looking up the Librem 5 devicetree in the upstream kernel, it seems it was submitted on Aug 21 2020. Aspen shipped in September 2019, so it took them about a year from shipping to upstreaming bring-up, and that's not considering i
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by amosbatto 5y ago
The RYF certification program is based on Richard Stallman's outdated idea that hardware shouldn't be changed and software is anything that can be changed or updated after the device is produced. Anyone who looks at how x86 proces
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by amosbatto 5y ago
Hi, I'm the "random community member" who wrote that FAQ answer. Thanks for investigating how this works. Where is the file cpu_rec.py located? I can't find it. I will edit the FAQ answer to clarify that the DDR training
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by amosbatto 5y ago
It would be almost impossible to make a phone with parts that are entire manufactured in the US. Most silicon foundry work is done in Taiwan (TSMC, UMC, Vanguard) and S. Korea (Samsung, DB HiTek). See: https://www.cnbc.com/2
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by amosbatto 5y ago
Yes, the CPU is weak, suspend-to-RAM hasn't yet been added to the mainline Linux driver for the i.MX 8M, camera auto-focus doesn't yet work, and lot of work is needed for full functionality of the Megapixels camera app and use of
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by amosbatto 5y ago
The NXP i.MX 8M Quad processor in the Librem 5 has "Made in Korea" stamped on them and there have been news articles published about how NXP was switching its foundry work from TSMC to Samsung. By the way, the i.MX 8M is designed
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by amosbatto 6y ago
Purism has said that it will be providing proprietary firmware updates, and it already has instructions how to update the firmware for the RS9116 WiFi/BT on its web site. Because Purism selected components for the Librem 5 that will be
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by amosbatto 6y ago
I'm a strong believer in "free software" as RMS defined it, and I give the man a lot of credit for getting the movement started. However, my few interactions with him were not pleasant, although I did have an interesting conv
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by amosbatto 6y ago
I have no idea whether the internal process at the FSF changed or not, but the rules are the same for the FSF endorsing a distro and giving its Respects Your Freedom certification to a piece of hardware. This page has stayed the same: htt
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by amosbatto 6y ago
There has been documentation for how to update the proprietary firmware for the RS9116 modem on the Librem 5 since early 2019: https://developer.puri.sm/Librem5/Development_Environment/Bo...
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by amosbatto 6y ago
The people doing the final assembly of the Librem 5 USA are working in Purism's Fulfillment Center in Carlsbad, California, which is a suburb of San Diego. Housing is very expensive in the San Diego area, so we are talking about wages
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by amosbatto 6y ago
ThatGeoGuy, Since you called me that "crazy uncle at Thankgiving," I feel that the "crazy uncle" should have a chance to respond to the arguments that you made in your review: https://forums.puri.sm/t&#x2
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by amosbatto 6y ago
For info on Jumpdrive and many other things, see the FAQ: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
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by amosbatto 6y ago
Looking at the pin description on page 24 of the A64 Datasheet, it looks like the 8 data pins (CSI_D0 … CSI_D7) are for a MIPI Camera Parallel Interface (CPI), but Allwinner is calling it "CSI" (MIPI Camera Serial Interface). This
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by amosbatto 6y ago
Hi megous, I created the spec table comparing the two phones. The "2.7. Image In" section on page 10 of the A64 Datasheet ( https://files.pine64.org/doc/datasheet/pine64/A64_Datasheet_... ) calls MIP
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by amosbatto 6y ago
A lot depends on what online services you are using. The goal of Purism is to provide a suite of online services at Librem One ( https://librem.one/ ) so you don't have to share your personal data with Google, Facebook,
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by amosbatto 6y ago
Current shipping date is estimated at mid-to-late November 2020. It is definitely getting closer. I try to keep the community FAQ up-to-date, if you want current info: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/
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by amosbatto 6y ago
The recent versions of Squeekboard have a full keyboard like Hacker's Keyboard in Android. See: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/squeekboard/-/merge_requests/...
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by amosbatto 6y ago
The Librem 5 apps will use flatpack with bubblewrap. See: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque...
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by amosbatto 6y ago
It also gives Purism some idea where to focus its development efforts, since Purism literally has a thousand problems to solve so it has to prioritize what is truly important and what can wait.
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by amosbatto 6y ago
The "L" part was an effort to include all the speakers of Romance languages who say "software libre" or "software livre". In my experience living in South America, very few people say "código abierto"
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by amosbatto 6y ago
If you want a list of the apps for the Librem 5, see: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/community-wiki/-/wikis/Freque... (in the first link, it tells how ready the software is to be used in the Librem 5, an

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