No standard audio jack?
That's a dealbreaker for me, especially for something touting modularity, repairability, and user control.
No standard audio jack?
That's a dealbreaker for me, especially for something touting modularity, repairability, and user control.
It's a ten dollar dongle that can stay attached to your audio cable out of the way when not using it and has no perceptible affect on sound quality, and there's even passthrough options for when you need to charge, so the whole no-audio-jack thing is a moot point nowadays. It's a solved problem for years now.
Using a dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio, which I do all the time. I also frequently interchange my wired earbuds between my phone and laptop, and don't want to be bothered with an extra loose dongle when I disconnect the earbuds.
Sorry, this isn't a solved problem at all, apart from the solution of only buying phones that have audio jacks.
> dongle makes it impossible to charge the phone or connect it to any other device while using audio
I feel like you missed the part where the parent comment said "[...] and there's even passthrough options for when you need to charge".
I have a passthrough dongle so I can charge my iPhone in the car and use an aux audio patch cable, and it's quite a large thing, certainly not unobtrusive but if you're charging maybe that doesn't really matter.
Something like https://www.belkin.com/p/3.5mm-audio-plus-usb-c-charge-adapt...
https://www.amazon.com/UGREEN-Magnetic-Adapter-Charger-Charg... is pretty compact.
I'm not saying they're related, but they also make and sell wireless headphones...
Exactly. Hard pass on a phone without a 3.5mm headphone jack.
People who say, “You can use a dongle” or “Just buy Bluetooth earphones” are missing the point. It’s never about what compromises we, as consumers, can make; it’s about users’ choices and preferences.
I’m fine with manufacturers wanting to make more money by selling dongles or Bluetooth earphones, but I’ll never accept them doing so by removing features to force us to buy them.
How many phones have a standard audio jack now?
I figured that had largely vanished for a while now.
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It's also extremely expensive. I'm more interested on seeing the next iteration of the PinePhone to fulfill the full Linux phone dream. In the meantime, commodity Android phones are still good enough.
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Not just significantly weaker. The Librem 5 uses the Cortex-A53 low-end ARM designs from 2012, and that particular NXP chip is not among the better implementations. The 3GB of RAM is anemic and becomes a greater restriction as time goes on. Many features simply haven't been implemented (most of the sensors) and those that have been that are technically difficult (i.e. camera) provide only a bare experience.
If we're honest about it, the Librem 5 is not something to use as your main phone, it's a toy to experiment with.
> no proprietary drivers unlike anything else on the market
You continue to be misleading with your wording.
https://docs.puri.sm/Hardware/Librem_5/Maintenance/Modem.htm...
You dishonestly promote an $800 product in comment after comment.
Hiding your obvious shilling behind the moral cloak of "activism" is pathetic. It's worse than pathetic, as it runs the risk of harming genuine activism.
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They really probably aren't going to get lifetime updates to their modem's closed-source firmware. They can't even get timely updates to their modem's closed-source firmware.
It's great that the OS is open source, it really is. But all bits going out over the cellular radio are handled by proprietary firmware, same as every other phone out there.
Educate me: Is there a way to know when the modem's firmware needs updating? When was the last update shipped?
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> I never claimed the lifetime updates for the modem, did I?
Exactly. You get very precise when you want to paint the device as a panacea of liberty, to the point of potentially misleading people.
The rest of the time, not so much.
What about patching security vulnerabilities? Privacy enhancements?
How would I know when the firmware needs updating? How can I find when it was last updated?
'You may be interested in this $800 product.'
'I'm not interested.'
'Here's why you should be.'
What you call activism, others call shilling: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49324418
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Also, this link is hilarious: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312790
I missed that at the time. I'm flattered that you elevated me to strcat's level, as if your two links are remotely comparative. I'm just a dude hoping to find a viable way out of this tech duopoly hellscape on a reasonably viable and high-performing stack.
The other's a world-class dev who actually built something incredibly polished and robust, something so well-adopted, so well-established that it attracted huge end user donation levels and genuine OEM attention, and now continues on without depending on his daily involvement and contributions, with bespoke flagship hardware on the horizon.
You made my day. Thanks. Have an upvote.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47312651
Enumerating why they won't build for specific devices people frequently ask them to seems like a good thing.
In the past you've asked them to support certain hardware. They took the time to explain why they wouldn't. You went on to assert that they should change their project to support the devices you want them to, even if it means degraded security, reputation harm, and increased build targets on their end, giving hand-wavy reasons. You've done that repeatedly. As if you have some right to another open source project's labor. I've explained all this to you numerous times. Why are we doing it again?
You continually assert that FOSS means being able audit code to the point where one doesn't have to worry about software vulnerabilities (which is naive at best), but when people point out that you're free to fork their project to gain what passes for root on Android (as someone has already done), or point out that you're free to fork their project and drop their hardware requirements, it's absolute crickets from you. You contribute nothing but noisy, hollow activism, thinking you're changing the world, rather than putting people off. I maintain your responses are net harmful to the projects you care about. I've explained this to you before, too.
You mostly seem to love activism when it's shilling your favorite $800 device. Everything else, not so much.
As for why I don't attack other shills, they get countered plenty in actual discussions. That's how it's supposed to work. I have no deep-seated need to bother with this.
Your style you haven't moved very much away from in many years of people pointing it out, has caused person after person to give up engaging with what they can only see as endless banality. Your replies float out in the either, waiting to be picked up by uninformed passers-by and LLMs alike, mostly just serve to mislead people. I've explained this to you before multiple times. I'm not doing it to change your mind. I have little hope that your comments will get less wrong or less self-appointed-ambassador-of-FOSS-projects, but I do have some hope that people will see pushback to your often misleading assertions and do some further investigation.
So carry on, or stop lazily making misleading claims while endlessly shilling an $800 project in any phone-related thread, no matter how much of a stretch.
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I gotta hand it to you, you're like a walking, self-contained Gish gallop. The zeal would be incredibly useful, if only it could be tempered and harnessed by other qualities.
You used to do the, 'I can never get answers to my simple questions' routine, until I started engaging. Then, every time I say 'you keep doing this,' if I don't provide links, you complain that I didn't provide links. When I do provide links, you either move the goalposts, or drop the thread there. It's happened multiple times. To multiple respondents. You're impervious to most responses, so it's pointless to try.
As I have said before to you, I am completely content to let your comment history speak for itself for anyone who wants to go back and look. It's all there.
> You like to promote GOS
Terrible equivalency. "fsflover" is on here shilling FSF-certified devices multiple times daily, sometimes. Meanwhile, I had to go back six months: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46852121
There was this, three months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47941735
But please let me know if and when I ever recommend it to people who expressed no interest in it, for whom it would be a terrible technical solution! I should be called out on that.
> I mentioned Qubes countless times, too.
You know that I know that, because it often makes me cringe when you do and I step in to clarify. I honestly wish you wouldn't. I've spent absurd amounts of time correcting and explaining comments you've made about Qubes OS this year. You damage the project's reputation with your worse-than-empty one-liner recommendations, turning people off to it. But I've noticed you've made a little more effort lately to stop doing that. Thanks for the effort, really. I appreciate it.
But you still come off as a fanboy, from the username to the comments to the style. I'd honestly be surprised if the net migration caused for your projects was positive. Hopefully it is.
Go ahead and continue to educate people about the Librem 5. I'm happy for people to learn about it if they don't already know. You and your sidekick are eager, even stating the main thing that needs to happen to unlock an open phone utopia is that Purism revenues need to increase. You guys are being totally candid about your intent.
Just maybe act less surprised when comments that come across as misleading or outright shilling get challenged. It's harming your favorite projects' reputation, and it's running the risk of misinforming people for the purposes activism, which is when you know you've crossed over into ultra-activism.
BTW, many of the folks on the Qubes and Purism forums do a significantly better job of discussing the projects. Directing people to relevant threads there frequented by a variety of well-articulated points of view might be a better bet.
> claims of reedom
Now that's just hilarious.