Dear ‘guru’,
your post and conclusions are based on your totally wrong personal assumptions, at least in my case. At leas you have misunderstood the sense of my post.
First of all I know very well the general shortage situation. My ‘micro company’ produces also dive computers.
I don’t need to live in Germany to know the problems of VW. Coincidently my car is a VW and I know the general situation in the automotive market: the problem is not ‘confined’ in electronics components but also in raw material like steel, brass etc…
if anyone try to buy a bike today he’ll face the same problem;
I know very well the ‘titanic’ challenge that the project of Librem 5 means, in particular in a market controlled by a duopoly.
An d I suppose that the majority of people that joined this ‘bet’ are aware of all this.
The ‘problems’ are others: considering all this for me is simply ‘unthinkable’ how the comunication/updates have been managed considering also the fact that the final cpu was decided before the pandemic.
So please avoid to give others ‘suggestion’ about what to do; we have still some ‘free space’ in this world and what is most common to people that joined the Librem 5 project is probably the fact to be free to think and to express their opinion without be tracked every second of day or someone that say how to act.
Have a good day
Thanks ecs for your message. For sure I don’t give up. I started to use an ‘alternative’ phone years ago: the first BQ Aquaris Ubuntu Touch version; and now a Volla phone. But the goal is still the Librem5
For me it is not just my (lovely) wife, but my kids as well. And by the time I can actually show them the Librem 5 they will ROTFL as not only it comes from the past but looks like it too.
Finally, I received my Librem 5 this week, so I proved all people wrong that said that I would never receive it. The problem that I have now is that I cannot use it because the lack of working Signal. It took me a lot of dedication to convert my contacts to Signal, now they can laugh because I have a FOSS phone that does not support the Signal messenger that I recommended for years. But, I assured them that this will be addressed as well over time. But yeah, how long will it take? It’s a pity I cannot use the Librem 5 as a daily driver because of that yet.
order date : October 8, 2017 address/modem confirmation mail : September 27, 2021 tracking number mail : October 4, 2021 arrival date : October 7, 2021
order date : October 7, 2017 address/modem confirmation mail : September 27, 2021 tracking number mail : October 6, 2021 arrival date : October 8, 2021
Now trying to find out what I can make it do that improves my life.
Thanks everybody for the data points, I took the liberty to remove an address confirmation mail from the table (we track when actual shipping starts), and updated the chart in the first post too. It seems within the last 3 weeks (<-- updated) around 400 devices have been shipped, if the data are somewhat correct (no guarantee though :-)).
Tony adds a data point in the #community-librem-5:talk.puri.sm room:
Ordered: 2017-10-08 (matrix msg)
Shipment: Oct 1 2021 (matrix msg)
Received: Oct 7 2021
out of the box it can already do less. Less leaking of data too
now I also need to find out how to make it do some things I want. It feels like early days of linux: information scattered and a lot is possible once you find “the way”. I guess it is part of the fun journey
so I hope the exponential growth of users will help development. The graph is looking promising
I’m a bit late, but the more data the merrier. I did opt for Evergreen even though I was scheduled for Dogwood.
order date : September 17, 2017 address/modem confirmation mail : Nov 12, 2020 tracking number mail : November 18, 2020 arrival date : November 27, 2020
out of the box it can already do less. Less leaking of data too 