Maybe try a right angled plug into the headphone jack, less likely to get torqued from accidental bumping. Just my $0.02
The misbehaving cable has 90 deg plugs. Iâve ordered some new cables of various styles to see what works best.
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The new cable did the trick â the L5 rocks!
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From a Purism email:
Products planned to arrive within the year:
â Librem 16 laptop
â Librem 11 tablet
Now there is a timetable for thatâŚ
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Any rumors on the tablet screenâs aspect ratio?
So, it wasnât the port that was to blame in the first place? (I hope.)
16" laptop would be killer! i hope it is not a a widescreen display optimized for watchching movies though and instead has more of an Apple Macbook 16" aspect ratio designed for productivity in mind.
Well I guess
to be announced in the coming months
means that they arenât announcing these two products now. 
Is that good or bad?
I think people have different ideas about what is a good aspect ratio. Iâm happy with 16:9 (which is, yes, movies, and, for me, photos).
Weâll probably just have to wait and see what the specifications are, for both the tablet and the laptop.
No, definitely the cable.
I hope to ditch the cables when Bluetooth can deal with phone calls. For now, itâs male/male out of the jack to a splitter, with one more cable to an external mic on my visor, and another to the aux for my head unit. That aux is another adapter that creates the aux from the cable unplugged from multi-cd player. LOTS of patches, lots of potential failure points!
16:9. Librem 11 from 2016 was:
Intel Core M-5Y10c processor
2.0 GHz
2 Cores (4 Threads)
4.5W
8 to 10 hours battery life
16GB maximum memory
DDR3L 1600MHz
2 Mega pixel front camera
5 Mega pixel rear camera
11.6" 1920x1080p FHD eDP panel
M.2 22*80
802.11n wireless
RF hardware kill switch
Mic/Camera kill switch
2 stereo speakers
1 DC-in port
1 Audio jack
1 USB 3.0 port
1 micro HDMI 1.4a port
1 microSD
1 4G NGFF slot
1 Micro-SIM slot
1 2048 pressure pen stylus
Sensors including accelerometer, e-compass, gyroscope, and ambient light
Trackpad & touchscreen
Fanless design
296mm x 189mm x 11mm (11.65" x 7.44" x .43")
850g (1.87lbs)
Other specs will change like USB-C, but ratio unlikely to change.
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Please please 
@francois-techene add this to Librem 5 Fir:
- add Nokia N900 SIM and SD Socket trays, (current evergreen trays it is a shame)
- 2 premium speaker, (current evergreen mono speaker it is shame)
- 4 GiB RAM
- 128 GiB ROM
- 5000 mAh Battery
- 5G-nr-lte module, open of docs.
- reversing engenering the sparklan module firmware to free software. (current status is a shame)
- reduce weight and thickness to L5 body.
- add a thermal sensor camera
- add a fancy desing to L5 Fir body
- add a dedicate radio fm & transmitter controller.
- add infrared controller next to 3.5mm jack
- add NFC controller
- add a micro fan to convergence mode to slow down the temperature from core then run cpu at full.
- labeling Librem-5-Fir-Professional to meaning longevity & genuine electronics
Design
Switch the g & n
My wishes:
- NFC
- kill switch for GNSS
- Some secure option for booting phone via Jumpdrive (password or certificate, for prevent other people from booting my phone)
Why? GNSS is âreceive onlyâ.
Should we carry the âphoneâ and a camera separately, and oh, what about WiFi, Internet, Texting, and all the apps that go with it. After all, itâs just a phone as you say.
If all you think it is, is just a phone and assuming you bought a L5, then why?
If itâs going to be a camera AS WELL AS a âphoneâ, whatâs the problem with having a modern competitive phone w/ 3-lens camera, Internet, texting, calculator, graphic arts app, âŚ?
Try to sell a âphoneâ without camera. Who wants, or even needs just a phone these days. One canât go into some restaurants and order from a menu without grabbing the menu via QR codes.
~s
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Just NFC please. Tailoring a fob to unlock would be a dream for my use case.
(And a tablet too, please!)
Thatâs difficult to do given the constraint that Purism never wants to prevent you booting whatever you want on your phone - and Purism doesnât want to be the gatekeeper of what you can boot (which exposes them to coercion). (That is the approach of Big Tech, restricting you and empowering Big Tech in the name of âprotecting youâ.) So any signature / certificate etc. would have to be provided by you.
That is also difficult to do given that this is a recovery option. That is, if you bork your phone and the only way of fixing it is booting Jumpdrive (or booting anything else via USB) but part of the thing that got borked is the signature / certificate etc. that allows booting ⌠(Classic example here: yeah but what if you forget the password? Will you accept that your phone is an expensive brick?)
Thereâs nothing wrong with what you are asking for but I donât expect to see it until the Librem 5 has a similar level of boot protection as compared with the laptops.
The priority for doing something like this for a phone is lower because you can in most circumstances expect to retain custody of your phone at all times. You donât have to worry about an Evil Maid attack to the same extent that you do with a laptop.
I donât use the second (rear facing) camera much on my iPhone but, as you say, Samsung and Apple are setting market expectations that one (rear facing) camera is not good enough.
Multiple cameras can be used for capturing 3-D images and for switching between a narrower field of view and a wider field of view.
I think itâs a fine line to be walked (i.e. how much camera functionality exists) but I think ultimately the market itself has spoken and I think that @wimdows is incorrect ⌠every phone is expected to be a camera too.
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More and more Iâm convinced that the L6 should have a physical keyboard.
So that would be on my wishlist.
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That is what I do: I have my phone/pocket computer, and I carry a real camera, with a decent size sensor. Been doing that for 20 odd years. Phone cameraâs rely too much on software for real photography.
A fancy camera just offers unnecessary hardware clutter.
This doesnât go for the other things you mention.
Loads of shitty cables on the market these days!