okay, i’ll try:
not from the Video but from my memory of this Drama:
Purism makes Linux phones. its Librem 5 was an absolute success on KickStarter and they raised an absurd amount of money.
they still haven’t started large-scale production now, a large amount of time (talking about years and years) later. only the first few batches of phones were delivered
refunds are basically: “you want your money back? haha lol fuck you”
Moreover, the person in question ordered from their website and it failed to ship within over a year, they called for a refund and were told “wait for the shipping date to cancel then we can process that”. So they waited, and then were told “we have a no refund policy at this time” (and still no phone)
They didn’t use an OEM in the way I think you mean that
The board design was in-house
There were a lot of issues with the power consumption of the CPU they picked, and they went back and forth on whether they should wait on NXP for a better chip
I’m one of the early backers, and I have gotten it. The battery life is just too bad and the camera app needs a lot more work if you want to take quick pictures
They definitely screwed up pretty bad, and I wouldn’t recommend buying one, but there isn’t anything comparable from a software freedom and privacy standpoint that you can buy
user bought phone, after 3 years still didn’t get it
when asked for a refund purism bullshitted their way into stalling and ultimately denying it
their claims about freedom are baseless (fsf’s ryf standard is idiotic)
their claims about security are bonkers
they just sell snake oil and then don’t even ship it
Can’t say I’m too surprised. Years ago I bought from them a librem 13 and what I ended up with was just an overpriced crappy laptop, so substandard for modern day usage that it’s now basically a 2000$ paperweight.
Like yeah it runs coreboot, cool, everything else (battery, stability, performance compared to paper specs, etc) is just junk. And “it runs coreboot” is a far cry from all the numbo jumbo they tell about security and privacy.
So, care to explain the video for those of us who can’t watch it right now?
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okay, i’ll try:
not from the Video but from my memory of this Drama:
Purism makes Linux phones. its Librem 5 was an absolute success on KickStarter and they raised an absurd amount of money.
they still haven’t started large-scale production now, a large amount of time (talking about years and years) later. only the first few batches of phones were delivered
refunds are basically: “you want your money back? haha lol fuck you”
Moreover, the person in question ordered from their website and it failed to ship within over a year, they called for a refund and were told “wait for the shipping date to cancel then we can process that”. So they waited, and then were told “we have a no refund policy at this time” (and still no phone)
Yay, summary!
Wait, that’s so shady of them to do something like this. I wonder which OEM they used, because that’s just insane incompetence.
They didn’t use an OEM in the way I think you mean that
The board design was in-house
There were a lot of issues with the power consumption of the CPU they picked, and they went back and forth on whether they should wait on NXP for a better chip
I’m one of the early backers, and I have gotten it. The battery life is just too bad and the camera app needs a lot more work if you want to take quick pictures
They definitely screwed up pretty bad, and I wouldn’t recommend buying one, but there isn’t anything comparable from a software freedom and privacy standpoint that you can buy
TL;DW:
Can’t say I’m too surprised. Years ago I bought from them a librem 13 and what I ended up with was just an overpriced crappy laptop, so substandard for modern day usage that it’s now basically a 2000$ paperweight.
Like yeah it runs coreboot, cool, everything else (battery, stability, performance compared to paper specs, etc) is just junk. And “it runs coreboot” is a far cry from all the numbo jumbo they tell about security and privacy.