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Well, I asked "Do they?" because I was legitimately curious. Thanks for linking those, that's awesome! Nothing from librem.one gave me that impression; seemed like a serious case of NIH wherein they fork the universe and rebrand it as their own.

https://librem.one is what you are referring to, I believe. I just signed up for it a few days ago and I'm happy with it so far, and I feel good about being able to support Purism. I'm excited about the Librem 5.

As far as Mozilla goes, I don't know what they could partner up with. Maybe cloud storage, or onion support, but both of those are stretch goals for Librem One.

So Purism are launching a privacy respecting digital services bundle which includes VPN and Email. It seems there is also a "pay what you like" tier which gets you their "messaging" and "social" services. The social service seems to be a Mastodon instance which they are running. They also talk about plans to expand into cloud storage/backups, payments, and phone carrier services. Loads of info here here and here . I'm curious on what people think of this move?

>Nothing on this page looks blurry.

Look about halfway down the page for the heading "Librem One Features". The image in question is blurry and hard to read. (Link to image).

Totally agree, except they have numerous revenue streams beyond hardware such as Librem one and Fund Your App which is literally donating your money to Purism.

It's time to realize that money isn't the issue. The project is open source, and the community wants it to succeed. That the Librem 5 has failed so hard is 100% on the leadership.

Purism's deceptive marketing posts continue to this day, with this announcement of a "mass production" phone shipping. You can't use the camera with open source drivers/firmware yet. How do we know that will even be possible?

The Facebook lite app is so much better. It is statically linked and compressed for optimum performance. I wish more apps were like this. I might look over some of the reddit apps and see if I can find a similar one. I'm looking into alternative social media that is decentralized and transparent, librem.one is one such example.

I grew up kicking myself that I didn't invest in certain stocks when I had the chance. So many chances to become a millionaire.

>My friends are acting like I'm some sort of alien.

Your friends are an uncurated mess of fuckwits. Learn how to maintain an SQL database and plug in all their details then you can have your own AI sorting them out.

Itseään voi syyttää, jos on moisia mennyt käyttämään. Operaattorien palvelut on aina huteralla pohjalla.

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Libremiltä saa pikkurahalla sähköpostin, jota ei mikään taho käytä hyväkseen.

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https://librem.one

https://librem.one/ is a step in the right direction. I’m going with Microsoft plus third party privacy services for the moment but biting the bullet in regards to my DAW and switching to Reaper. Framework laptop and building a new PC. Making my current pc a steambox. This should be interesting.

I'm sure they know about this there is no reason for me to waste my time really . And you don't have to trust me on this just download librem.one mail on Android and you will see yourself . In my opinion Purism's entire marketing strategy is to tell people that we care about privacy and since its one of the few companies who does this people will give away their money to them to support them just because of that . Now they are based in US which has a terrible privacy history and if a court orders them to giveaway all of their customers info they will do it in a second . They would never risk their business . So i'm not sure how accurate their claims are on this regard . But overall i don't think they will last specially in this market if they continue giving people bad quality services and devices .

I found links in your comment that were not hyperlinked:

• Librem.one

I did the honors for you.

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I use https://librem.one/ mostly because of the following

We believe that privacy and technology can be ethical and convenient. Librem One allows you to reclaim your privacy, securely communicate to your friends, and does so easily with your freedoms intact. We bundle all the tools together for you to replace the privacy invading, locked-in, exploitative big-tech services. Putting you in charge of your digital life.

We provide products and services based on values that society wants, that respect digital civil rights. Welcome to Librem One, socially responsible services from Purism.

A lot of that stuff is provided by Librem One. Librem has a decent reputation as a privacy and security-first company, and they make laptops and phones, but I did see some discussion about how it wasn't as secure as they claimed it to be. Still, this very likely a far better option than Google and Yandex or any other company that treats you (and your data) as the product.

I'm not seeing evidence of narcissism as I understand it (mind you I just started reading here to try and understand why my parents repeatedly broke quarantine so I don't really know about the topic). Maybe your moms paranoia is part of something deeper, or maybe she actually is being electronically harassed: Either way, I suggest that the perfect mothers day gift to her would be a subscription to Librem One. There are other similar services on the market but she can use the Purism forums to learn about how she's being protected which would also gift her a feeling of empowerment instead of helpless dread :)

I use https://librem.one/

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Purism is a Social Purpose Corporation (SPC), which means we put social good above exploiting people. Librem One is a growing bundle of services—chat, tunnel, email, social, and more—from Purism, SPC.

We believe that privacy and technology can be ethical and convenient. Librem One allows you to reclaim your privacy, securely communicate to your friends, and does so easily with your freedoms intact. We bundle all the tools together for you to replace the privacy invading, locked-in, exploitative big-tech services. Putting you in charge of your digital life.

We provide products and services based on values that society wants, that respect digital civil rights. Welcome to Librem One, socially responsible services from Purism.

I have the bundle but only use the VPN and email. They are also pioneering the first privacy focused /open sourced smart phone. -spoiler its fucming expensive

Alternatively, you can use an all-inclusive service - like https://librem.one - but only start using 1 of their services, say, email first. Then, over time as you get comfortable, begin using more of their services - i.e. their chat, social stuff, etc. Please bear in mind that Librem is not the only provider that offers numerous services, they're just one example.

The first round is shipping out, or will be soon, according to Purism. You've seen the level of quality it's at now. It has improved a lot in the last six months or so (you can find videos online of earlier builds on dev kits) so progress is happening, and being Linux based improvements will continue to come quickly from the community once it's out.

Once it's out, reviews will follow. Based on what we've seen, you shouldn't expect it to be great, especially compared to an iPhone. This will be an early adopter product for awhile, probably at least the first year or three. I think it's reasonable to expect most of us are going to be using it as a secondary device for awhile.

As for migrating from iOS to it… there's a million ways Apple has sunk their talons into your digital life, so there's more to go into than one comment could really address, but you could start the process by migrating to freedom-respecting services like Librem One, which will work on your iPhone and other devices. Some services, like iCloud mail and calendars, will work on the Librem 5, but others like iMessage and their photo backups, will not.

So, you mean Librem One? Granted, the phrase "open source" doesn't actually appear in any of the literature or blog posts, but that's pretty much what the company Purism is all about.

In any case, to answer your question, yes. I believe that as a society we need to stop asking for free things, and then also asking for privacy to be respected. I believe that we should expect to pay for the services we use. In return, those services will not have to resort to data mining to sustain and grow themselves, thus making it much easier to respect our privacy.

But the funny thing is the e-mail app from Librem One is not ready for the Librem 5. IMO ... a lot of people are going to be pissed because https://librem.one/ shows a phone with "Librem Mail" . Most people assumed that the phone represented a Librem 5 instead of an Android phone. Marketing/PR might be the death of Purism --> it causes confusion, anger, backlash.

I thought that their "librem one" bundle included a fork of K9 mail? ( https://puri.sm/posts/introducing-the-new-librem-mail/ )

The marketing is strong and the transparency is lacking. Especially when you see the mock-up version on a phone in the Librem One ad: https://librem.one/ . I guess that is supposed to be a re-branded K9 on Android? Yes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=one.librem.mail&amp;hl=en_US . Read the reviews.

They need to be more careful ... or they will be hated.

> Im not sure he has thought about the direction of his company in these terms yet

What do you mean? They are literally rolling out precisely what you are talking about, with more services coming soon. In fact, it seems they're rolling out a cloud backup service (Librem Files and Librem Backup), payment service, and even a pay as you go phone service (see the bottom of this site for upcoming products).

Granted, a lot of it is rebranded stuff from other vendors, but they're absolutely trying to build a brand around online privacy. I'm honestly not sure what more you're looking for from them.

You're welcome!

I haven't set it up yet, but it is definitely something I'm going to be doing in the future, as I'm slowly migrating away from the Googlesphere (I currently use Hetzner's Nextcloud service for my cloud storage solution, but they currently don't have Collabora installable on their systems).

Anyways, for £50 (around the same price in dollars or euros) you could set up a Raspberry Pi to do all this for you. Using the NOTS video I linked, this'll work on the Pi, too. Super exciting!

Might be an idea to keep an eye out on Librem One as well, as I suspect they will be adding Collabora in the future (my opinion, haven't seen any announcement for this yet).