Hey foks,
Not to hijack onto this post but—you can already support many FLOSS projects that are on the Librem 5! You can always show your support for them.
I usually make small donations to many of the projects I utilize as a show of support.
You came too late to have enough “experience” with Purism. People that follow Purisms activities since pre-Corona-time have a lot more and know better how things are going on. And what’s the point in donating to Mobian or PostmarketOS when they don’t work much on things like firmware or drivers? I mean, you can donate them - nothing wrong about it - but I don’t think you will be happy with the current state, too.
Late to the party, and haven’t read all the comments, so this might be redundant:
Having just tried for an hour to send a picture to my girlfriend and having to force reboot the phone 3 times, and still not succeeding, I have to say:
I don’t care that much about new features or a new version of PureOS, I want stability and a set of reliably working basic features. When that’s in place, then we can talk about new features and more niche security features. I just want to be able to reliably make a phone call…
My experiences differ not much from Yours…things on the L5 work not really reliable. Modem crashes are happening frequently and the phone sucks the battery faster empty as I can look for this
Today made 2 phone calls and nothing more and energy is on 29% after 10 hours up.
You do not use suspend then. This was the time I had at beginning, too (13-14h without suspend). When Purism started developing it was around 6 hours in best case. I think with 18h (and 2 phone calls) it’s quiet usable, even if far from being optimal.
At the moment I don’t fear anything about Librem 5s future since we always can move on to Mobian (and that was the real promise made by Purism: no need to have them on board to have an up to date OS). PureOS and updating to Crimson is just the easier way and until there is no clear signal that they totally stopped development, it’s worse it to look forwards to Crimson. But that’s just my opinion.
But some of those bugs (stability, reliability) might already have been fixed in the new (as yet unreleased) version of PureOS. I can understand that you might not want “new features”.
Maybe a crowdfunding infrastructure could be built on top of Taler.
It is until 1 June 2024 possible to apply for funding by the EU to work on this.
NGI TALER is a project funded by the European Commission and the Swiss State to roll out a new electronic payment system that benefits everyone: people, merchants, banks, financial authorities, auditors and anti-corruption researchers. The project doesn’t start from scratch, but builds on the strong foundations of GNU Taler — the privacy-preserving digital payment system developed by the GNU community and Taler Systems SA.
“The third vertical market addresses charitable donations, pledges and crowd-funding for the Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) ecosystem. This will then enable more systematic donations along the software supply chain. The #Free Software Supply Chain integration is led by our partner NLnet Foundation, a non-profit leading philanthropy in the European Next Generation Internet, based in Amsterdam, and an active grant maker in a global technology landscape, working on a day to day basis with many hundreds of free and open source projects over sixty countries.”
Did you look deeper into it? Is the project something positive or just advertised in a positive way? It’s “funded by the European Commission” which I do not trust at all (usually wants all the bad digital things).
People that follow Purisms activities since pre-Corona-time have a lot more and know better how things are going on. And what’s the point in donating to Mobian or PostmarketOS when they don’t work much on things like firmware or drivers? I mean, you can donate them - nothing wrong about it - but I don’t think you will be happy with the current state, too.