[PLUG] Librem 5 dodopaddle

[Chuck Hast]

Now that I would like to have. Be nice not to have to deal with OS's that
you
do not know what they are doing, same goes for the silicon. I hope that this
one flies. Have to go look at their funding and try to help a wee bit.

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> This looks intriguing:
>
> http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Features/Librem-5-and-
> the-Challenge-of-the-Free-Phone
>
> ... although as a "late adopter" for nonessentials,
> I'll wait to ask somebody else who has had one for
> six months, and seen a detailed engineering teardown.
>
> The most attractive aspects are the (claimed) hardware
> switches on the radios.  I would add an additional
> feature - a truly independent "broadcast detect"
> circuit that lights up (and stays on for perhaps 30
> seconds) when the device emits any form of broadcast.
>
> I would not trust a device completely unless it was
> open source silicon, with "hardware double entry
> accounting" for interface transactions between chips
> and subunits (counters in hardware matched to counters
> in the software, flags raised if extra bytes are
> unaccounted for), but that won't happen until a rich
> privacy-obsessed geek pays for a lot of $$$$$$$$ chip
> design and manufacture.  I don't have that on this
> desktop computer, so I'm not holding my breath.
>
> I tried using a dodopaddle (functional description
> of a so called "smart phone") for a month;  I could
> not make it do what I wanted, as opposed to being
> seduced to do what the designers and sponsors wanted.
>
> I've watched other users lose their ability to navigate
> the world mentally, make independent decisions, create
> artwork and longform text, or respect others face to
> face.  These devices are not "smart", they just seem
> smarter and smarter as their fleshy appendages ( AKA
> "users") become less capable and more dependent.
> The Current Occupant was elected for his tweets.
>
> So ... I hope a truly libre phone will create a
> user community that owns the environment, rather
> living in Apple or Google company housing.  The
> latter might have prettier furnishings, but a jail
> is a jail, even if you can pick some of the locks.
>
> Keith
>
> --
> Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com
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