Excellent talk. I can't wait for this phone (Librem 5) to be available. Only wish the specs were slightly better (higher screen rez for ex). But the privacy and security features more than make up for that.
A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
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Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#12Their mirrors are forcing my mobile browser to open the video file instead of downloading it. That's not very helpful. I'm surprised they didn't offer a torrent for the video, that would actually help me (and help them on costs/mirroring). EDIT: Another user provided the solution: press-and-hold/long-tap the video in the new tab to get an option to download.
wget https://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/projects/media.ccc.de//event...
should do the trick
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#13Their mirrors are forcing my mobile browser to open the video file instead of downloading it. That's not very helpful. I'm surprised they didn't offer a torrent for the video, that would actually help me (and help them on costs/mirroring). EDIT: Another user provided the solution: press-and-hold/long-tap the video in the new tab to get an option to download.
wget https://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/projects/media.ccc.de//event... should do the trick
He is on mobile ^
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
wget https://mirror.eu.oneandone.net/projects/media.ccc.de//event... should do the trick
He is on mobile ^
Hmm... if they're on Android there are apps in Fdroid or Play Store that let you download arbitrary files. Kind of annoying Firefox doesn't have that function
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#15The phone is relatively thick compared to typical modern smartphones, which I assume is primary due to the separation of the cellular radio onto an M.2 card. I wonder whether it would have been possible to avoid this by putting the M.2 card to the side of the mainboard with an edge-to-edge connector, or re-embedding the components into the mainboard. I imagine flattening out the design would also help to distribute h…
I wonder if they used an off the shelf cellular radio on m.2 card or maybe if they're planning on making it available separately which would be sweet.
Edit: I see the dev kit uses a 3rd party modem, not sure if the final production Librem 5 phone will as well. It looks like the website for the modem they're using that they link from the Purism dev kit page is broken as well.
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#16Their mirrors are forcing my mobile browser to open the video file instead of downloading it. That's not very helpful. I'm surprised they didn't offer a torrent for the video, that would actually help me (and help them on costs/mirroring). EDIT: Another user provided the solution: press-and-hold/long-tap the video in the new tab to get an option to download.
Last years camp had a 500Gbps uplink, somehow I dont think they are struggling.
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#17The phone is relatively thick compared to typical modern smartphones, which I assume is primary due to the separation of the cellular radio onto an M.2 card. I wonder whether it would have been possible to avoid this by putting the M.2 card to the side of the mainboard with an edge-to-edge connector, or re-embedding the components into the mainboard. I imagine flattening out the design would also help to distribute h…
I wonder if they used an off the shelf cellular radio on m.2 card or maybe if they're planning on making it available separately which would be sweet. Edit: I see the dev kit uses a 3rd party modem, not sure if the final production Librem 5 phone will as well. It looks like the website for the modem they're using that they link from the Purism dev kit page is broken as well.
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Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#18Reddit discussion on this topic:
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cje7vg/dont_use_pu...
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#19Reddit discussion on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cje7vg/dont_use_pu...
Not exactly on this topic as it appears to be a hit-piece about the company making the phone. There's been a few hit-piece comments here on HN made by new accounts on other Librem 5 posts too.
Anyway, I'm not an expert about most of that stuff, but they wrote:
> They aren't shipping firmware updates.
Uh... the phone hasn't even been released yet!
Re: A mobile phone that respects your freedom [video]
#20Reddit discussion on this topic: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/cje7vg/dont_use_pu...
Not exactly on this topic as it appears to be a hit-piece about the company making the phone. There's been a few hit-piece comments here on HN made by new accounts on other Librem 5 posts too. Anyway, I'm not an expert about most of that stuff, but they wrote: > They aren't shipping firmware updates. Uh... the phone hasn't even been released yet!
They have ensured by design that what remains of proprietary firmware on the phone can't be updated, because they want a FSF Free hardware certification, and that's the only way to get that and have non-free firmware components. Not updateable non-free firmware is tolerated as being "part of the hardware" in a way, updateable firmware is software and required to be open.