Passionate about freedom, libre software/hardware, environmental sustainability, and doing the right thing even when it’s inconvenient.
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It could be a desperate suicide attempt. The magnets get trapped in the bowels by sticking together at various points, necrotizing or rupturing the intestines or other tissues, which can cause peritonitis or ultimately sepsis, which can be fatal.
Dear DHS,
These are just cowards with guns. Do better. Become an agency with dignity, honor, and basic human decency.
With all the respect you deserve,
An ex-DOD civilian
“Yes I bopped you, and I’ll bop you again!” – not an actual translation
I don’t have a source handy, but someone attempted to heat their apartment with computers and ended up spending something like >$1000 in utilities that month.
I would imagine that most of our brains, interests, communication styles and socialized behaviors are immensely multifaceted where it would require a reasonably nuanced stimulus to trigger a response within the realm of their expectation. I don’t expect many people to appreciate my niche hyperfixations and, frankly, some of them aren’t even popularized in a way that I can easily articulate. I struggle to imagine a situation where it would slip out during everyday conversation.
Any number of places. It could have been a stowaway in luggage, imported livestock, etc.
Maybe check out the Pocket Reform and look into WWAN modules with SIM cards that have service in your geographical area.
If we wish to change the status quo yet ignore the ones actively challenging it, what are we left with? I can almost guarantee you that a Canonical-produced phone would certainly progress mobile Linux but would not be released as OSHW.
And it sucks last I heard.
I’ve been using one as my daily-driver since March 2023. It’s not a phone for everyone; I wouldn’t recommend it to my parents, but it doesn’t suck as long as you are not expecting feature parity with flagship proprietary options in a trillion-dollar market. Bugs get squashed over time, and there is power in numbers. Even the iPhone started out somewhere.
And the hardware is very outdated.
I’m sure that Purism would appreciate ideas you may have for an OSHW/FOSS-friendly processor unencumbered by NDA, that’s well-documented, has long-term market availability, doesn’t take half the real estate of the L5’s PCB, would allow more than 2 hr of runtime, that… you get the idea. Available processor options are limited if the device should be even remotely open. Spinning one from scratch is prohibitively expensive.
The Librem 5 is a Linux phone and already has open board design files, available here.
It only takes 1 opportunity to change your life.
Just a single sliver of indirectly-related memory-paraphrased context which may hopefully be helpful:
I worked for the U.S. government from 2010-2018. In my new-hire handbook, government employees and contractors were directed to not portray a political alignment while working in an official capacity (say, while wearing a uniform or other identifying clothing, while using a government vehicle, etc) regardless of political party. We were allowed normal civilian rights if presenting as a civilian. Some form of administrative action was mentioned if this rule was broken, presumably up to and including termination of employment.
“Never interfere with the enemy when he is in the process of destroying himself.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte, probably
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now controls the past
Who controls the past now controls the future
Who controls the present now?
– Rage Against the Machine - Testify
Get up, stand up
Stand up for your right
Get up, stand up
Don’t give up the fight
– Bob Marley & The Wailers - Get Up, Stand Up
It was the DOD long after I left, so however you want to interpret that. :)