Librem 5: First Impressions
It&#x27;s an interesting article (and thanks to the author for putting it out) but I wonder what their end goal is. Is it to have a 100% secure&#x2F;private phone? I&#x27;m not sure if that&#x27;s possible with the proprietary firmware (though the hardware kill switches are certainly a good idea). Most importantly, the questionable usability means that either the Librem team needs to work much more, or... this becomes a &quot;smarter&quot; alternative to a dumb brick without giving data to Big Tech. (Ignoring the fact that a sim card automatically makes you lose privacy to the government&#x2F;telecos).<p>When comparing against something like a Pixel running GrapheneOS, it&#x27;s honestly a bit more puzzling to me. Granted, I&#x27;m definitely not the audience for this, but with G_OS you can do most things that a regular phone can do, without taking several minutes to install Firefox.<p>As much as I love privacy (going as far as having a semi-random username), this phone is a bit puzzling. I hope someone can throw more light on this.