The question about the 'patina' of a #Librem5 used daily came up on the Purism forums. I liked the idea and thought I'd post my actual state with some pictures to sometimes look back to it.

I'm using mine now for more than a year as my only mobile phone.

#Librem5Patina

Encryption is broken, because we do not separate the communication channel from the encryption device.

An interesting viewpoint and argument in this comment to an also interesting article by Ross Anderson.

https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2022/10/13/chatcontrol-or-child-protection/#comment-2425357

#cloudflare does blocking me from loading a #kickstarter page because they have the impression that my browser might be to old to handle it. I just updated #firefox a few days ago to the at time of writing official version.

Yes, cloudflare might not be able to see the correct version because of settings making it harder to track my firefox, but should they care?

From every bad there comes something good: I had lost track of μArt and usb-serial-adapter and had searched for it. Using the name of the kickstarter product I couldn't access on kickstarter.com I searched crowdsupply and found the adapter I had remembered .

In the end cloudflare protected me from buying the wrong product, because they thought my browser is to old.

The discussion about #RiscV and the #VisionFive 2 on the Purism Forum is really interesting.

There are people who would prefer #Openness over #Performance and #Convenience (I'm counting me in - otherwise I wouldn't use a #PinePhone and a #Librem5).

I feel like a VisionFive 2, with open source drivers, firmware and software would be good enough for me. (iliketurtles)

I immediately had to think about the MNT Reform and their research in Risc-V.

Maybe they would be willing to evaluate putting an existing SOC like the StarFive StarFive JH7110 onto a CPU board for the MNT Reform to offer an alternative to the pricy MNT RKX7 FPGA Module.

@mntmn@mastodon.social ?

If you are interested in #FLOSS and #OpenHardware you should read this article written by @nicolef@mastodon.social Nicole Faerber.

She jots down here insight on the industry and its history in just an answer to a discussion.

A great article by itself!

After playing around with phoc/phosh on my notebook I found that the media-keys in gnome didn't work anymore after closing #phoc and #phosh.

Later on I wasn't able to suspend my #Librem14 running #PureOS #Byzantium with #Gnome (3.38.5) on #Wayland by hitting Fn-Esc.

It turned out that the gsd-media-keys¹ daemon got confused over phosh grabbing and releasing the controls.

Stopping the daemon via killall gsd-media-keys and re-starting it using systemctl start org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.MediaKeys.target or executing /usr/libexec/gsd-media-keys &, disown %1 restored the functioning of the hotkeys.

Didn't file an issue, yet, because I don't know if this is reproducible in newer versions of Gnome. @agx@social.librem.one, maybe it'd be nice to add some information to the article in case people wonder why there hotkeys do not work after following those instructions?

¹this is the only documentation I found describing in short what the daemon does - any hints to newer official sources are welcome

Which processes use Xwayland?

• xlsclients
• lsof -E -aUc Xwayland

My #Librem5 had been delivered with a Redpine RS9116 M.2 Key E card for #Bluetooth and #Wifi.

I already owned two devices I wanted to use with my Librem5:

• a bluetooth mouse to be used alongside with my nexdock360
• a high quality noise canceling bluetooth headset I use for phone calls and sometimes to listen to music

Both didn't work well: the mouse wouldn't connect (Bluetooth LE only) and the headset connection was unreliable with a lot of stutter.

In newer Librem5s the SparkLAN WNFB-266AXI card is used for Bluetooth/Wifi. I exchanged the card to find out whether this would improve the situation and it did.

Both devices connect now, most of the stutter while listening to music is gone, the headset works for calls (but unusable due to bad quality) and my mouse connects and works fine.

@purism@librem.one wrote a blog post about the new card and made it available on their shop.

P.D. If ever a small golden pin falls out of your Librem5 after you opened it read this forum post.

A picture shot of a modern keychain to show an usb-smartcard-adapter and the #LibremKey containing an OpenPGP smartcard.

#ShotOnLibrem5 with an alpha version of #millipixels that offers autofocus, but triggers some bug that does break saving of pictures.

Good luck that librem5-goodies containing a screenshot script is installed to save the picture.

"Physical cut-off switch for the microphone. Thank you Edward Snowden."

Who wrote this?

Could have been by @purism@librem.one about the #Librem5. Not the solution.

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