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Purism is a scam / cult. Louis Rossmann talking about it. Them being a cult Techlore explaining why Purism is garbage.
Do not buy their shit.
All the links don’t work for me, getting a “server not found”.
Fixed, thanks for the heads up!
I get the privacy argument, but I will be sticking with Graphene OS for the foreseeable future.
That’s probably a smart choice
Some of us went in on Copperhead OS, and it’s still stings
I don’t think the name matters, I also don’t care about the drama with the (former) lead developer.
I just want to use the best OS option for my phone, and at the moment I believe it’s Graphene OS.
I agree, I do not care about drama at all. People aren’t perfect and that’s fine with me.
GrapheneOS is the best option for me and my device.
giving google hundreds of dollars to then degoogle it and deduct a few dollars of potential earnings, in total making google a net positive. getting ahead in the game, I see.
No one was talking about buying a new phone from google.
Yes I’m happy to pay money to Google when they make a reasonably priced phone with decent hardware and don’t restrict the ability to install a custom OS.
Look guys, I’m doing something for privacy!
*gives Google more money*
If the only thing you care about is how much money Google makes, then you are not even in the game.
I don’t care what one of the biggest privacy offenders does with my money, totally not going to use it to invade privacy. I’ll give them some more just to be sure.
$1299
Shipping through backorders
Good for Librem I guess…
They are crazy charging that much for a phone with a crappy screen and hardly any memory.
Any interest i’ve ever had in this device completely vanished when I saw the price. Let alone the USA cult edition
it’s obscenely over priced and this cultist shit doesn’t make it any better. to me shift mq6 is miles better.
and i almost forgot, didn’t they try to pull “copying free software verbatim and slapping a different logo on it”? for a whole group of software?
Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=-IjUryQOlgk
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.
I don’t know what event you refer to but their OS is quite vanilla, entirely open source, and they do contribute upstream a good amount.
I too really love my new phone. Posted from Voyager on my L5.
Edit: Downvote me if you want but you’re downvoting a fellow Linux nerd who’s happy about using Linux so…
This guy gets it: it’s an investment. Expecting a full-fledged product equivalent to existing mobile phones is incredibly ignorant. It just shows how little people understand about what goes into software and hardware development. Even worse are people who understand just enough to consider themselves experts yet actually know next to nothing on the topic. Yes, they know much more than the average rando, but they know very little compared to those who work on these things.
People dunk on Purism and the Librem 5 because:
- Purism is shady AF (Louis Rossmann talking about it. Them being a cult Techlore explaining why Purism is garbage.)
- Their phone is way worse specs than similar products, such as the PinePhone Pro, the Pro¹ X, the Fairphone 4 and the Volla Phone, and for a significantly higher price (in fact, the Librem 5 is more expensive than even the iPhone 14 Pro Max, the Galaxy S23 Ultra and the Pixel 7 Pro).
- Even though they are years behind on their preorders, they are now launching a “new” phone with pretty much the same specs and double the price ani, you guessed it, it’s available for preorder, although it’s not even developed yet.
To summarize, Purism is a cult that sells iPhone 8’s for more than iPhone 15 Pro Max prices and then doesn’t deliver or refund them. My old Huawei P10 Lite has better specs in every single way, and it cost one sixth of their price when it was released six years ago.
