-- Follow Up --
Looks like #Purism grossly underestimated the cost and time needed to develop the promised device and eventually couldn't afford to give refunds without abandoning the project (at least, that's what they claim).
Yet, they kept telling customers that refunds will be given, then ghosting them.

https://rumble.com/v3460kn-purism-wants-me-to-delete-my-video-exposing-their-refund-scam-and-delay-tac.html

.. #librem #librem5 #libremphone #linux #linuxphone #opensource #fraud #pinephone ..

The #Purism method
- Take customer money for a pre-order
- Never ship out the product in years
- Ghost the customer when they ask for a refund

https://rumble.com/v33twnt-purism-ghosts-librem-5-customer-lies-about-refund-policy-avoid.html

.. #Librem5 #librem #libremphone #opensource #linux #linuxphone #fraud ..

This video by Louis Rossmann exposed @purism's bad customer support of a three year due refund and deceptive marketing about their #Librem5 phone being freedom respecting and secure when it actually isn't. In the video description there's also a link to a relevant HN thread. I wanna also add that the @fsf's #RYF program is garbage and should be reformed.

Piped: https://piped.video/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s
YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKegmu0V75s

#Purism #Purism5 #Librem #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware #Privacy #Security

Why on god's green earth is the #Librem 5 $1,300? And it's a four-year-old phone no less that's backordered. I thought I could pick one up for a couple hundred bucks to play with postmarketOS, but nope.

@dyckron Nice! Never had one of those. There's also the #pinephone and #librem, which sound good, but one of my critical apps is an offline #openstreetmap app, and last time I looked they didn't have one, but that was a long time ago :/ My gf had an #iphone 5, which is perfectly good hardware-wise, but hardly any apps work on it any more :(

Bonjour,
nous recherchons un #smartphone #reparable et secure ( entre #fairephone et #librem...).

Si vous avez des retour sur les fairephone 4 niveau autonomie, la photo, sa réparabilité...

Et si vous avez des smartphones avec une bonne gestion de la sécurité / vie privée.

Merci

@purism May get even more impossible if #America keeps trying to become #Iran 2.0 especially in terms of #digital rights: Having a secure smartphone gets in the way since thought control is hard, how can we "fight crime" if people are able to think and communicate so freely?!

Also difficult to purchase one in #Europe at least my side of it. Not because of laws thankfully, but because devices like #Librem #Purism #PinePhone aren't readily sold in stores here even online which sucks horribly.

@purism How long till the state outlaws it and arrests the company for selling this in the name of stopping child abuse? Joking... I hope, at least for now luckily. Thanks again for everything you've done to protect the core of an open #internet in the face of an unprecedented onslaught by world governments! ❤️ #Librem #Purism

Es wird wohl wieder einmal Zeit, sich so langsam mit Linux auf den Smartphone auseinander zu setzen. 🤔

Bisher hatte ich #SailfishOS, das war schon ziemlich überzeugend. Als Debian- und SSH- User möchte ich jetzt aber meinen Smartphone-Fokus etwas mehr in Richtung
#PinePhole, #Volla, #Librem, #Fairphone, ...
#Mobian, #Manjaro, #UBPorts, #Lomiri, #Waydroid, ...
lenken. Gelesen habe ich schon vieles, mir fehlt nur noch etwas Praxis-Erfahrung.

Gibt es hier Leute, die da schon mehr Erfahrung haben und mir etwas Konkretes empfehlen können?

@meso @Natanox @animeirl
So anybody can recommend a phone like #pinephone or #librem?

Jeg glemte TOTALT at https://librem.one/ var en ting. Dette er en tjeneste som gjennomfører epost, matrix chat, mastodon-hjemplass og VPN-tunnel på en plass.

Librem var også banebryter med linux-smarttelefonene sine som med fysiske knapper til å slå av WiFi, mikrofon og kameraer mekanisk og har blitt standard for personvernsmobiler.

De fikk også i gang convergence for Gnome i linux.

#librem #LibremOne #NorskTut #allheimen #teknologi

#Linux > #Windows

https://itsfoss.com/linux-better-than-windows/
Great article by @itsfoss.

To start with Linux:

Laptops/Desktops: @system76 @frameworkcomputer
Phones: #Librem #pinephone
Distro: @linuxmint @pop_os_official @fedora @whonix @tails @qubesos
Communities: @thelinuxEXP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71W257SKdE попсоблогер vs Librem 14.

#lang_ru #linux #purism #librem #hardware @ru

Just wondering why no results come up in the search url for https://social.librem.one/@purism ?

#purism #librem #mastondonau #FOSS

Just wondering why no results come up in the search url for https://social.librem.one/@purism ?

#purism #librem #mastondonau

The discovery of #exynos #baseband vulnerability shouldn't have been taken as endorsement of #iOS or security through obscurity by some. The basebands themselves, including iphones', are closed source obscurity, after all. It should instead be taken as endorsement of #purism #librem approach in separating basebands from SoC; and maybe pile on #microkernel design.

Too bad purism is suffering from accruing supply chain, project management, and budgeting problems.

Ive been waiting for this since the days when Ubuntu announced their convergence phone #librem #purism
But please I need #KDE running on #AMD hardware.
https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-lapdock-kit/

Предложена док-станция Lapdock для превращения смартфона #Librem 5 в ноутбук

https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=58668

Читаю новость, и она отбрасывает меня в стародревние времена, когда производители ещё любили экспериментировать.

Помните был такой #Asus #Padphone, который имел док-станцию в виде планшета, к которому ещё и клавиатуру можно было подключить?

Как же я его тогда хотел, но был слишком бедным студентом, а цена была просто космической.

Потом конечно устройство оказалось провальным, потому что производительность тех лет сильно уступала ПК(а уже нет), а #Android так себе был адаптирован под вариант ноутбука (Так и осталось).

Посмотрим, получится ли у #Librem ренессанс этого странного решения, но уже на #Linux .

Кажестся что #Laptop получится ОК, а смартфон на редкого любителя. Ну впрочем как и всегда

Quand tu reçois un email de #librem au sujet de l'envoi du #librem5 alors que tu n'y croyais plus après 4 ans ^^ ....

cc @Torrone @Troll

I had ordered my #Librem 14 a few weeks before Christmas and it has been hard to be #patient. I finally got it; the build quality is excellent!

I ordered it to be preinstalled with #QubesOS, though I haven't used Qubes before. At first glance, the learning curve appears somewhat steep, but I'm hoping it is worthwhile for the added security.

I think it is funny that, despite the advances in computing hardware/software, we've come full circle back to waiting 10-15 seconds for an app to boot 😆