As you may have noticed, the Librem phone and other Linux phones don’t always have the same apps you may be looking for for iOS and Android, with few available within the built in store. While you must check with developers and encourage them to build their apps for Librem phone, there are a number of these that can be installed already from Flathub/Snap store:
Continue reading “Snap Store and Flatpak – missing “app stores” for Librem 5 Phone?”Best/Worst of April Fools 2022
With the news trends and company trends these past years, April fools has been one thing on a backburner for most sites. But this year there were some funny ones…
Continue reading “Best/Worst of April Fools 2022”Humboldt Math Festival – next Weekend!
If you live in USA, West Coast, this is something you won’t want to miss – after previous cancellations in 2020, this is up and running again, and will be Apr 2, 2022 this year. Check out the website for details: https://humboldtmathfestival.weebly.com/
Be ready for internet outages
Whether you have a very flaky internet connection at your residence, or you expect potential cyber attacks, it may be time to review Purism’s recent guide to prepping with some extra hard drives and some tools:
Continue reading “Be ready for internet outages”Utah VHF Society Repeater list now brought in to the repeater listing
If you have visited Utah any time recently with a ham radio you may have noted that not all of the repeaters coordinated in the area are on the repeater listing. As of this weekend this has been brought in with permission from the Utah VHFS!
Continue reading “Utah VHF Society Repeater list now brought in to the repeater listing”Fastorslow.com is shutting down – Possible alternatives?
If you have been using Fastorslow.com from Wordfence, you may have seen the news already, that Fastorslow.com is shutting down at the end of the month – for lack of being a viable business project for the Wordfence team 🙁
While this is disappointing, what other tools are out there that we can use?
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Once again it is Pi day, a great time to make pie – or order a Pizza or Pie (check if your local restaurants have a special Pi day deal 🙂 )
This year Pi day comes on a Monday, which hasn’t happened since 2016! There are some interesting tricks to calculating what any given day of the week was, and I’ll leave you with a video that James Grime published with some math tricks for the day of the week for any given date:
Continue reading “Happy Pi Day 2022”RIP JoinDiaspora, and soon, Stackoverflow-careers
As you may have noted if you use the service – Joindiaspora.com has finally been shut down. This brings up the question of what other open source or decentralized alternative will replace this for users moving away from Facebook or Twitter?
Continue reading “RIP JoinDiaspora, and soon, Stackoverflow-careers”QSO Today Ham Radio Conference is coming this weekend
Tickets are $10.00 until Expo opens, then $13.50 until April 10th: Check out the topics, including a hearham.live demo!
Re-flashing the Librem Phone with Byzantium
If you just received a Librem 5 you probably have the latest software – including the new software that has a (mostly) working photos app, gps and a basic maps app! Development has continued on these devices but if you have one of the previous preorders you probably have been waiting on new updates and only getting a few standard package updates and no new apps 🙁
If you want to upgrade the phone in this case you need to re-flash it and wipe it with the newer version. Note this deletes everything and starts anew!
Their instructions here should be fine for some, but only if you have a very very new Ubuntu based system. If you have an older one such as Ubuntu 20.04 then you can get set up as shown below.
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