How does this qualify as an announcement? There is a gnome-sound-recorder package in Byzantium, so it has presumably been “now available” in PureOS for 5+ years.
I assume that your question is not directed to me specifically (because I’m just mirroring what turns up in my RSS feed).
Maybe work has been done to make it (more) adaptive??
Can you check the update history of that package to see whether it has had recent changes? However not all of the apps announced in this set of related announcements have found their way (yet) into a build. So you would really need to follow the link to the source and look for recent commits there.
Also, I believe the implied context of these announcements is “Librem 5”. So it can be in PureOS on laptop for any number of years and yet still be announced if there is a relevant change that affects the Librem 5.
Correct, not directed to you specifically. I am grateful for the work you put into bringing these in principle informative posts to our attention, but suggest some scepticism be applied when less than minimal specifics are present in the post, such a mention of a (reasonably recent) new feature, bug fix, or porting.
I have not, nor based on long track history of Purism blog posts should I have to, taken your time consuming suggestion to look down the very likely dead end rabbit hole. I could of course be wrong, but I really really doubt that anything of note has recently happened to that Byzantium package. My attitude would change if the proportion of contentful to content-free blog posts improved.
Purism had a few excess tokens for their preferred AI, so they used it to generate another blog post they deemed as sufficient quality for its customer base to round out the end of October.
I think we should consider those spam and not re-post them here, unless there is something actually to comment about them in the first post. At least for now it’s pretty easy to distinguish between the frivolous puff peaces that have probably been done with AI and those that have had some effort behind them. And if that forces the “invisible hand behind the curtain” to try harder, that’s good too.
I think you should take that perspective up directly with Purism. That opinion may well be valid and may well be useful to Purism but, as you would realise, I don’t have the authority to fix the underlying “problem”.
As a general opinion, not specific to Purism or to this forum, I think AI-generated content should always be labelled as such, either by law in jurisdictions where that would pass muster constitutionally or as a courtesy to (out of respect for) readers in any jurisdiction. (If nothing else, this would address the “slop accretion feedback loop” where AI is trained on AI-generated content. However it would then be more readily possible to filter out AI-generated content wherever this is considered necessary or desirable.)
My actual problem with the “app now available” series of blog posts is that the post does not appear to coincide with the app actually being available. So if I were to think, after reading the blog post, “that’s a neat app, how do I install it?” … the answer is far from clear.
Personally for sound recording I usually use arecord. 
As you can see, sound recorder app(on right L5 - crimson) is better.
( Byzantium on left L5)
Crimson: SoundRecorder:
- ported to gtk4 - gtk4 desing icons
- full enable black theme
- Port to AdwAboutWindow from GtkAboutDialog
- Translations updates
What mechanism did you use to install the application on either byzantium or crimson?
It is native-apt app version non flatpak. I hope understood you.