The phone can’t sleep yet, so it definitely works.
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Just tested. Yes, it works. Tip: After creating an alarm and closing the edit screen, you then have to select the saved alarm for it to become active.
Edit: It’s a repeating buzz, by the way.
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Welcome to the club of people that finally have it in their hands. If you do anything interesting with the fact you can use shell scripts and crontab etc for it I’d love to hear about it.
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Is there anywhere some kind of wiki / how to / tipps and tricks section anywhere to store information like the librem5-goodies package that @joao.azevedo mentioned above? Or the how-to-unlock root user as mentioned above, too?
I think as soon as more people get in the same lucky situation as @amarok then everybody will raise the same questions over and over again in this forum. So where would be the best place to preserve this info (if not already existing)?
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Excellent question. The honest answer, it still needs to be written.
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But thanks for putting this issue on the table again.
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I’m looking forward to syncing my files with my Synology nas (music, docs, images…etc) automatically when I get home and it connects to my wifi as a backup solution, is there a good option for local sync function? I’m dead set against anything cloud.
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I have to defer to the Purism team on that one… I see Online Accounts as options, but I don’t know about local syncing. I’m not sure how/if the phone can see local storage on your network; if it can, then I assume you could map to it to access your files.
Maybe create a new thread about it to bring it to their attention…
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It’s not graphical, but I would be surprised if editing a crontab and running a bash script containing rsync wasn’t an option. Just make sure to have the script exit if it can’t find your NAS first.
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That’s what I was thinking, perhaps running a python script?
If you don’t need graphical, I imagine just about any of the existing sync programs like unison would work.
Yeah I just want it to happen in the background anyways, I don’t need a graphical interface.
Banking “app”…
Just created a web app for my bank’s mobile site. Works like a charm.
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The alarm function is a very good point. And a very very important function. If the alarm is unreliable you can miss your train, your wedding, get fired because you are late to work and then you die because you forgot to take your medicine.
I have never seen I mobile device with a 100% reliable alarm function! Not my 20y old cellphone. Not my first smartphone with Win CE and none of my two Android phones. Some of them do ring the alarm most of the time but simply not always. Such things can be a pleasure to debug. cough And then you wake up late and asking yourself if you just didn’t hear it because you slept so deep or if it just did not ring in the first place. This week I watched coincidentally the alarm going on for half a second, making almost no noise, and then stopping!
This function is used by many users and is important as I stated abhove and hard to be implemented with reliability. That’s why I encourage everyone to try it out and have a look at it and help to get it done right. At least with bug reports.
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I have a “mobile device” which has a reliable alarm function. It’s a wristwatch, by Casio. It’s even got a silent-alarm mode where it just vibrates. Never had reliability issues with it, and the battery life is impressive.
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Maybe this should also be moved to a new dedicated thread.
I have a Casio, too. Unfortunately the wristband broke while the watch itself is still fine. Unfortunately the wristband cannot be changed. That’s another case of unsustainability, maybe planned obsolescence and unnecessary increase of elektronic waste. I had another watch where one button broke. The rest was fine again.
Also I need at least for alarms per day and that is a niche in the niche of digital watches. Watches could have been so much more but the development has stopped decades ago. I think those Casio watches are basically the same as in the 80s or so.
Edit: P.S. of course there are smarteatches and Bluetooth watches coming up recently.
rsync, tar + some compressor (of YOUR choice) seem really good programs to use with cron.
i’m definately looking into this !
maybe have a looksee here > https://lbry.tv/@Luke:7/rsync-is-a-based-file-sync-program-if:4
https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-migrate-new-hard-drive
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G-SHOCK baby ! their quite sturdy as well. speaking of keyboard-combinations - this watch has so many you’d have to be a doctor to remember them all 
Worry not, prediction is the nearest big feature on the road map.
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