If you want PureOS-approved then you would have to flash an advance copy of crimson but that comes with instability and immaturity risks.[/quote]
I thought the stuff in Purism Store (not to be confused with ‘Shop’ would only show programs that were safe.
Since the ‘PureOS Store’ shelves are empty, must I need to wait until Crimson is available and then wait some more for new and approved software is available? I’m sure some software will be available that can be trusted as safe, but that could be years.
Well “stability” would be nice, privacy is the goal with this isn’t it, so I would like to find some useful software but it looks like there isn’t any right now.
Just tried the “PureOS Store” it’s still doesn’t load anything from the sub-category’s.
And while I was looking for a suitable store, shop, I came across many Puri pages with 404s along with the page’s template. For starters, https://puri.sm/store and Google, won’t let me use store.puri.sm and changes it to [pure.store](https://pureos.store/).
Address used in image is https://puri.sm/store
Google. Hard to live without it, illegal to shoot it.
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The front end opens OK. It’s what’s behind doors Create, Work, Play etcetera that appear with “Editor’s Choice” being blank as with the rest of the boxes below it. Sample pic:
What is your rough location? East/west US/Canada. I’ve had the Store work before but only a few times. Frustrating. Machines are getting pretty smart these days so maybe it was something I said, should have said, or didn’t say.
Too, if you wouldn’t mind, is my pic too big, or too small or OK? I know different screens are different sizes. I might be using pics too big/or…
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Thanks nerd7473.
I’ve had this problem since day one and still no one knows why.
I just realized I took my Topic - - Off Topic so I’ll stop with the Store being in need of Intervention and back on topic.
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Do you remember telling me when I don’t understand terminology used, to search it out? Well, I find I’m constantly looking up stuff a customer should NOT EVER have to involve themselves in. And, most of it is some techy person showing off their level of geekinese.
I thought adding the Whitelist would be the one thing I can use in this version of the L5. NOT! Like everything L5, it takes a phone engineer and expert that speaks Linux to find the software parts and pieces and another to put it together, and a understanding of what to install first.
If any company wants to sell privacy phones, they should learn the K.I.S.S. method of selling to phone users, not as if their only audience are Linux techs.
This trip in to Whitelisting was another long journey to disappointment, again.
CONCLUSION: ?
Wait for a suitable OS for the L5 that could, according to Puri history - take many years.
A lot of money for a broken toy.
To whomever is head kahuna - K.I.S.S. or go bankrupt. I see the direction it’s headed. If I need a cell phone, it won’t be another L5.
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At the risk of sounding like an algorithm and going more off tangent from the original topic, “you may like”: this blog (they are a bit long reads - way too long to paste here - but have some interesting points) and a concept titled Rot Economy, which can be seen to be seeping into all product development (although I’d argue that there are other factors at play too when it comes to linux/open and small companies). Quoting a more paraphrased source:
…tech companies have “used a combination of monopolies and a cartel-like commitment to growth-at-all-costs thinking to make war with the user.” He argues these companies are actively degrading the digital tools and platforms we once loved, all in service of endless growth.
“Everything must grow, at all costs, at all times, unrelentingly, even if it makes the technology we use every day consistently harmful.” This pursuit of infinite expansion leaves users to grapple with services designed not to empower or delight them… but to extract as much money, data, and attention as possible. The result? Platforms that are actively hostile to the people they claim to serve.
I cannot continue reading stuff I can’t understand, nor want to.
I guess I’ve been spoiled by Windows. Locate, Install, Use. No need for learning something that could be simple, but IMO, is built by techs, for techs in a language with too many new words for the same old things.
Contrary to the visit counter (those # links beside each link to indicate how many clicked the link) I did go to the site that reminded me - why am I reading all the when it’s abundantly clear this L5 is not ever going to be of any dependable use.
and back on topic.
and going more off tangent from the original topic, “you may like”: