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It’s alive as long as dope motherfuckers like you and me keep using it.

Dope

Beefed it / Biffed it

Bike lanes suck and bikes should be on the sidewalk.

Not quite as that its user-created and submitted.

But yeah lots of packages have a -bin counterpart that will install a lot quicker than compiling it for yourself.

One suggestion is to look for -bin versions of the packages you want. Those are precompiled and should install only marginally slower than a regular pacman package.

Linux aside, would it not benefit the world if people moved away from non-free software? To me, this is a good reason to encourage people to switch, not discourage them.

Not wanting to go out or be social is more acceptable. Plus more excuses to stay home are available.

I’m sorry, but what the fuck is a System Album?

What OS even has that? What happened to the Downloads folder?

Oh no, certainly not. Actually I will admit I didn’r even see that word when I wrote my comment. Replace “empire” with “country” though and I would stand by my comment.

This post title is projection

I like Sayonara

I suggest adding AirVPN.

Waydroid’s performance is pretty good.

I never tried any games through it my my guess is it would work, but…

• Still may not be native performance.
• Waydroid’s VM takes a minute or so to start u0 for the first time, and eats a lot of RAM while its running.
• Expect your battery to drain a good deal faster to play your Android game(s)

That said, I will re-emphasize that the performance of apps in Waydroid is pretty dang smooth once its running. I stopped using it on my phone since I no longer needed the one app I had it for.

If you don’t commit to anything in the coming months, it may be worth checking it out after Purism (finally :)) pushes out some much needed OS updates. If you go to their forums you’ll see people talking about Crimson and Dawn, this is that update I am referring to.

For context, I am probably as much of a Purism fanboy as you are likely to find…

Is all the talk about not recieving phones ordered and the poor customer service just a smear campaign or is there truth to it?

There is a lot of truth to it, but I do think there were a few very loud voices making it sound worse than it was. I got mine in June 2023, and I was one of the last people on the “preorder” list. I hear a few people mention not receiving theirs still every now and then. The cases I saw mostly came down to emails landing in Spam/Junk folders on the customers end.

But I do think Purism’s support was very lacking in past years. In recent months I have seen some new faces in their Matrix and forums and the new people are really great and responsive. I do not blame certain past Purism employees who were in the firing lane for these issues. Rather I blame Purism’s handling of the refunds for drawing up enough ire to make Purism’s support reps sound like the bad guys.

The refund thing was less than great, for sure. I feel they are improving.

How do you like the kill switch?

Love em. I wish the modem powered on faster but that is nit the fault of the switch, or really a big problem. It takes like 20-30 seconds maybe. The Wifi powers on in a few seconds.

What country/service are you on?

US, Mint Mobile. AT&T also worked for me in the past.

Have you heard any rumors regarding the inventory issues?

Hmmm, maybe? I know there was supposed to be stock of new Liberty Phone main boards this year, and there was hope they would go on sale as a sort of L5 upgrade path. This either did not happen, or Purism is waiting for something to announce it.

I don’t own any other Purism hardware, and so I do not pay much attention to the L14 stock or the Mini or anything.

I am satisfied with it. Calls/SMS/MMS all work fine. Internet and the few apps I use work fine.

I will admit though that many (most?) others might not agree. Banking apps, GPS navigation, these are things I don’t care about.

I have gripes with the L5 but I am never, ever going back. My next phone will probably be Purism’s next phone, if they have one.

I’m not gonna go looking for it or share it, but I am here using my Librem 5 and kinda feeling like that kid in the meme hitting a bong in the background while people in the foreground fight.

What did you find you either liked or disliked about the GTK + Python combo for building this?