I admire your absolute and unquestioning loyalty to purism in all of your posts that I ve seen so far.
For quite a while I also advocated strongly for purism and their products, and I also talked to my friends about it. I stopped doing that - The smokescreen tactics that purism applied with regards to important topics, the constant excuses for delays and their onesided change of conditions regarding already signed contracts (return policy) gave me a pause.
The latest reason that confirmed my rather cautious optimism was the way purism set up and advertised their convertible notes campaign (e.g. to include the money that was raised long ago without really mentioning it & setting up a homepage for it as if it were a simple good to be sold, etc.)
And as mentioned in jaylittlesā thread I linked above - there is no official confirmation available on how much money has really been raised and arrived in their books (at the moment the page states USD 9,657,000).
But my initial advocating of the L5 at least had some humorous side effects - the question whether my āFred Flintstone Stone Age Mobile Brick Phoneā did arrive yet has become the running gag when meeting some of my friends.
Hi @PrivateWhite, I have no āabsolute and unquestioning loyalty to Purismā. I perfectly understand that they deceived their customers by changing the refund policy and that they almost always delay shipments. However, as @amosbattoexplained, they are practically our only hope to get a long-term supported usable Linux phone in this decade. Iāve seen enough reviews of it and believe that itās real and can be my daily driver even now. People like us should drive the change, so later ordinary people donāt have to forever obey the Apple and Google lords. Their convertible notes campaign started with $2,500,000, because, by the law, they must tell how much money they collected beforehand. It was discussed here on the forums, too.
Just consider, which alternatives we have. Lenovo for Linux laptops, who sold the privacy and security of its customers by infecting its BIOS? Or Apple, who is adding spying software on peopleās phones in the next update? Iām not even speaking about Google.
I do have a strong loyalty to free software and freedom in general though, which are strongly supported by Purism.
Oi, donāt you go disparaging the sacred shape (at least in many countries among the arctic circle)!
Now, Iād rather have my puck with Tux than Clippy
In September of 2019, I placed my pre-order. I remember the shipping announcement for Aspen and remember wondering whether or not I would be in that shipping group. Little did I know that the line was very long and that I was at the end of it.
One consolation is that I paid $599.00. The price today is $899.00. I dināt know what rate of interest that is. But it probably beats the return from a savings account. Of course, I havenāt received it yet. Hopefully the phone arrives sometime soon.
Well, they say; Justice delayed is Justice denied. In Purismās case, delaying the order shipment (for whatever reasons) is making the hardware obsolete.
Maybe it is just me, but if I pay $2,000 for a Librem 5 USA phone then a 32 GB phone is too little for that price. I would expect a 512 GB phone. Again, maybe it is I being me and expecting more for paying more.
I put a 512 GB card in mine. Somewhat cheaper than a 1 TB card but still a good amount of storage for an offline copy of my multimedia content.
Storage is getting cheaper all the time. Probably by the time the OP gets per Librem 5, a 1 TB card will cost no more than what I paid for my card of half that size. So you can look on the bright side of the delays.
