They might be mass-printed from an original.
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A reminder about this:
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Thanks. I have requested access so I can also update some tips & tricks.
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For comparison, mine takes 4 or 5 hours to charge, depending on how low the starting level is. If I happen to have the phone turned on during charging, I see the level rising over time to 100%. A short time later, the red charging light goes out, indicating a full charge. Then during use, the charge drops at a steady pace over the next few hours. Toward the end, the level can drop suddenly by a lot.
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Thanks @5a54a for sharing your impressions.
You wrote there, that you would not recommend it to friends and family, since it is no daily driver yet.
And honestly, for me that is the greatest dissapointment. After more than three years the phone still is a developer playground. List of promised, but not working features is longer than the other way round. Plus, @5a54a ordered the fourth day of campaing. What does that mean for the whole waiting queue? Still no news from Purism. Next dissapointment.
I know, the bigger the gap between expectation and reality, the bigger the conceived dissapointment. For me all I can say, referred to what I read here in the forum I am somewhere mid-range concerning my expectations. But compared to the current result (device status, delays, etc.) I feel really dissapointed.
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This is a good idea but could you also do a post to Site feedback about using it: when, where, why etc. Otherwise this will get lost here.
Nah, site feedback is feedback to Purism and will also get lost quickly.
New users will never pick it up before creating their MyL5 post.
But all regular users now know it and can apply it to new posts by others.
Should be sufficient 
I know. Just trying to âsherlockâ the production numbers so far.
It has been indicated by a Purism developer that patches for both of these are in flight. So keep a lookout for updates as they become available.
I assume you are really referring here to full disk encryption / full partition encryption.
On the one hand, Iâm sure Purism is aware of that as a gap and in conjunction with future Librem Key support will want that to be available for the root partition.
On the other hand, this is far from the only way to put personal info securely on the phone.
For example, if you can resolve the issue with your ”SD card then perhaps you can put a LUKS encrypted file system on that and leave the eMMC file system as it is.
And, for example, LibreOffice can be used to create password-protected documents.
(There are some trade-offs either way, depending on exactly what your threat model is.)
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And here I thought Site feedback was so slow that it would be the one place it wouldnât get lost. Besides, it would be there more for posterity than actually anyone reading it. And I would have liked to ask there questions about which messages qualify to have it and possibly debate weather there should be some new official categories (or old ones rethought) or other tags.
Since recently one can easily build and flash an encrypted image by themselves: https://source.puri.sm/Librem5/image-builder/-/merge_requests/177
A work on proper out-of-the-box FDE experience with key regeneration and initial password setup is still ongoing.
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The first thing I did as I learned Linux, was to figure out how to re-create everything I had in Windows. But eventually, my paradigms gradually started to change. Linux is more of a network operating system whereas Windows is a desktop operating system with some network capabilities if youâre willing to pay the right tolls, typically in money⊠or you can get all of those paid Windows features (and more) in Linux, and for free. Android and Apple phones are more like living in a motel and never owning a home. When you get your L5, youâll no longer be just a guest. Youâll be an owner. And like my eventual paradigm changes long after I started using Linux, maybe your paradigms should change now when using your Linux phone. Some new Linux Desktop users might see Linux as an impaired or deficient version of Windows. Of course, that thinking is so wrong for a multitude of reasons. Perhaps, some new Librem 5 users shouldnât be as worried yet about all of the Android and Apple phone features not being available in their Linux device just yet. Those features will show up and probably in the not-too-distant future. But now that youâve been released from your walled garden (your prison cell) and have landed as a root user in the middle of the worldâs premier network operating system on your own mobile device, what can you do with your new-found freedom? Everyone here writes about how they can or can not obtain their Android and Apple features on the L5. Fair enough. But why upon escaping from your prison cell, would your first actions be to recreate the semblance of the old prison cell? Has anyone here even attempted to use their Librem 5 to access their files and programs found on their home Linux PC, or perhaps any cloud-based servers they may personally own? What capabilities does your mobile Linux device have that donât exist on your Android or Apple phone and what could all of the other network operating systems that you manage (or could create) be capable of doing from your Librem 5? I am hoping to do away with many Android apps and finding new ways to meet those same needs through new ways from my Librem 5. Maybe close to everything that I access from my L5 could be cloud-based to one or more servers that I own and manage myself and not through any commercial service. Maybe I can create a server that works for me and invite my friends and family members to use it. So the idea is to move away from these Android and IOS apps and to find something better to meet specific needs in your life.
Try not to think about how much harder this might be to implement and how the existing infrastructure is so much easier. Fix your mind on that day that everyone tells Google, Facebook, and Twitter to F-off because we donât need them and their surveilance anymore. Then take things one step at a time to get what you want now while maintaining your privacy.
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Todd actually hand wrote all of them and yes his hand got sore after awhile. But we thought it was worth it to give the personal touch. We want to continue this practice as long as we can, although at some point we will probably transition from handwritten notes to printed notes with a handwritten signature from Todd, so it still has the personal touch, but doesnât require him to sit there for hours writing.
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Yes, we wanted to have encryption completed by the time we shipped, but we just werenât able to get it done in time. As mentioned already in this thread we have images in place at this point but are still completing the final finishing touches so we can securely enable this before shipping for customers so they can change the encryption PIN at first boot, like we do for our laptops.
At the moment the plan is for encryption to go out with our transition from âamberâ to our âbyzantiumâ PureOS release on the phones.
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I do agree with the majority of your post. But to answer why people are looking for what they had on android or apple, is because those are so far developed, we are used to the conveniences that those bring us. They are almost idiot-proof. Anybody can use them really. 95% (guessing) of people in the general public would rather have an iPhone 2 than a Librem 5 put in their hands right now simply due to usability. As sort of a second part to my answer, the tools (or apps) that were created on those platforms all seek to solve a problem we have in life. It would only make sense that we would want to retain those problem solving abilities. âForging your own pathâ in this area would mostly just be reinventing the wheel. I will say though, its is obvious that PureOS has limitless possibilities when compared to competitorâs apps and tools made available to users and devs. It is def important to move as far away from Big âBrotherâ Tech companies spying and stealing data, proprietary software and hardware, no right to repair, etc⊠I think everyone here could agree on that.
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Put Todd to work in modem installation and shipping dept. jk
I donât know that we would be re-inventing the wheel so much as tearing down the toll booths and forcing big tech to respect our privacy and our rights to use the computer of the phone how we want to use it. In some countries around the world, there are not even landlines anywhere because they went right from no-tech to having cell phones. Perhaps the open source technology can cause similar leaps in cases where big-tech wouldnât otherwise take the next step until after they could find a way to erect new toll booths there first. The wifi network data sharing is a good example. Due to only reasons of greed and not having anything to do with technology limitations, most carriers in the US typically block the sharing of your phone data with your laptop via wifi. FCC rules appear to have changed that just recently after roughly a decade of abuse. The carriers disabled that data sharing feature that is otherwise built in to the phone in other parts of the world, and then created ways to accomplish the same thing if you would pay them extra for it. That allowed the creation of data plans with so much data available and then a different (smaller) amount of data that could be shared with other devices via wifi. My thought is that if I pay for a given amount of data access, itâs none of their damn business on which device I use it. In many cases, when you go in to the network settings on the phone, you find a section that says something like âAllow data sharing via WiFiâ, and the toggle switch is in the âOffâ position and greyed-out (locked there). Then the carrier creates a toll booth in to an app that makes data sharing possible through that toll booth app. That is such an abusive practice. So any revenues that the L5 can strip from the carriers is something that I am all for. I really like the idea that the tables are turned to where the phone owner has root access while the carrier has no access to the operating system. When commercial companies start committing abuses, itâs my philosophy that their product needs to be commoditized as quickly as is possible. Put their product in to the same category as rock salt and toilet paper. We all need it to one degree or another and can buy it almost anywhere to get the lowest price. Essentially, this is the hammer that Linux (being free) places on Microsoft. There are other sources available if any supplier becomes a bully. And the Librem 5 makes that possible in the cell phone market.
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Ooh, ooh, I hope I get my phone before his hand or patience is exhausted. 
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This is required by the carrier for international shippings, so they can contact the client if there is any issue.
This is being worked on and when it is available, we will provide instructions to reflash the phone. There are two issues to get Full Disk Encryption working.
1 - Usually with full disk encryption on a desktop/laptop you have a physical keyboard to type the password. In case of the Librem 5, where there is no keyboard, but a touchscreen, you need a virtual keyboard installed outside of the Operating System that can be used to type the password. This is in the works and a keyboard has been packaged for this.
2 - We want to be able to provide a OEM like experience similar to the one on our laptops. The user receives the device with the image installed and encrypted, and in the initial setup creates itâs user and changes the disk encryption passphrase to one he chooses.
vcards can be imported to GNOME contacts using the application librem5-goodies, GNOME contacts supports carddav with nextcloud instances.
The calendar app is not yet adaptive, but it also supports caldav via nextcloud. Yes this is a limitation as both applications were initially made with nextcloud in mind.
This is in the to do list. In GNOME Control Center (A.K.A settings) the VPN dialog is one of the most complex, due to all the vast configurations options. And it is a challenge to make that section adaptive, that design wise is still very GNOME2, in a adaptive panel with sane defaults that allows configuration.
There is work being done as we speak to make nautilus adaptive, by GNOME devs, and purism devs that are also GNOME devs, it will still take some months for it to be implemented, and there will be the issue of back porting it. But yes, it is being worked on.
until then you can scale nautilus to fit the screen.
have a look at: https://siskin.im/
I can be wrong but I believe this is also in the to-do list
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Better than that.
@dos says here: [MyL5] Librem 5 thoughts that it already works and that a patch is already wending its way through the system.
tbh I am not a huge fan of auto-rotate. After 13 years the spiPhone still canât always âdo what I wantâ with auto-rotate. Of course, this is Linux, so people who want auto-rotate should be able to have auto-rotate - and people who donât like it should be able to turn it off.
For where the L5 is right now, yes, it definitely needs auto-rotate.
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