Alex Wilson @blunaxela@fosstodon.org

🎁 Buy Now & Save: Librem 5 Early Bird pricing ($599 USD) ends January 31. Preorder pricing ($649 USD) begins Feb 1 and ends when general availability and shipping begins. https://shop.puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ #DemandFreedom #privacy #security

Bash 5.0 released

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2019-01/msg00063.html
#newsbot

#X2Go is in the middle of doing a series of upstream releases. X2Go Desktop Sharing has been entirely reworked. The X2Go Session Broker has been ported to Python3 and seen many bug fixes. All components with GUIs are finally on Qt5. As components get released upstream, I do my best in getting the stuff uploaded to #Debian early enough in time for upcoming Debian #buster. Install a Debian 9, upgrade/dist-upgrade to testing and give feedback via Debian BTS. Thanks!

Check out our video demo'ing our chatty application showing both SMS and IM! https://videos.puri.sm/librem5/chatty-sms-contacts.webm … #DemandFreedom

Since I couldn't find some active FOSS community on matrix, I created a channel on my homeserver, feel free to join ;)

https://matrix.to/#/#liveunix:liveunix.org

Purism has an update on their progress with the Librem 5. If you're considering getting one, new information for you!

"Librem 5 general development report — October 15th, 2018 – Purism"

https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-general-development-report-october-15th-2018/

Yes, today, after having troubles with windows, I convinced 2 coworkers to try out Linux, I'm gonna show them a few distros this weekend and help them installing it on their secondary computers. Today's a happy day!

Reminder: International Day Against DRM this September 18th

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/take-action-on-the-international-day-against-drm-this-september-18th

It's International Day Against DRM on Tuesday the 18th of September!

Many DRM-free e-book retailers have sales on the day, so keep an eye out for bargains. Libreture is involved too, and will have it's own special announcement to support DRM-free books.

#IDAD

https://www.defectivebydesign.org/dayagainstdrm

http://lights.climagic.com/ Control some led lights in my house via the command line.

We have a new progress report on the #Librem5

https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-2018-09-hardware-report/

Looks like the #Librem5 will be pushed back 3 months for an estimated release date in April.

Had a feeling they wouldn't be able to keep to their January estimate, but still very much looking forward to how it'll pan out.

https://puri.sm/posts/2018-09-librem5-hardware-roadmap-announcement/

#purism #foss #mobile

#fosstodon is probably the best online community I've been a part of so far. People here are really nice and doing a diverse range of interesting and creative things. One day we'll figure out how to put coffee in a RAID configuration.

Give yourselves a pat on the head.

Got mad respect for @mike and @kev, thank you guys so much.

Mastalab crashed and gave me the option of emailing a report. Even though it was a trivial problem I sent the email.

I just got a reply, half an hour later, saying it's fixed. 💛

My delight and surprise made me realize Google/birdsite/whatever had trained me out of reporting problems, by never responding or fixing anything.

The fediverse is different. You're much closer to humans who care about these things and are able to actually do stuff. It's worth reporting users, bugs, crashes.