Making Librem 5 Apps [video]
I have a librem 5.<p>At first I tried setting it up with a keyboard, mouse &amp; monitor, but it was a little fiddly to get everything usable.<p>I had a USB-C hub from a macbook with PD + ethernet + hdmi, but I couldn&#x27;t get the hdmi display to sync.<p>So I got another usb-c hub with ethernet + dp (+other ports) and that worked.<p>amazing: my phone desktop showing up on my 4k monitor!<p>So, that was pretty cool, but I still had a lot of fiddling to do - like which display the app comes up on, and how to switch things around.  Also sometimes the display wasn&#x27;t recognized when I wanted it do - I think I had to reboot with the display plugged in, because hotplug sometimes didn&#x27;t work.<p>(There have been software updates since I tried this - it may be better now).<p>However, at the same time I ordered the second hub, I also got a $15 USB-C + PD + ethernet dongle.<p>Turns out that was <i>really</i> what I wanted.  Let the phone be a phone, sit there charging and ssh&#x2F;scp into it from my regular system.  I can access the entire filesystem.<p>All of this really drives things home about Apple.<p>When the iPhone came out, apple was breaking new ground, so people even accepted web apps, because before they had nothing.  And with quality&#x2F;security, the app store made sense.<p>But after over a decade you realize that the apple ecosystem is more about control.<p>Why can&#x27;t I write my own apps (without asking permission&#x2F;eula).  Why can&#x27;t I <i>run</i> my own apps without either signing up as a developer and paying, or renew some certificate every 7 days?  Why can&#x27;t I plug all the things into USB and use them?<p>Apple has mindfully denied a lot of utility for their users.  I thought maybe the mac usability would trickle over to iOS, but it seems the iOS lockdown has trickled over to the mac instead.<p>EDIT: wait.  Let me say &quot;Thank You&quot; to the purism folks for doing this.  It took a few years, but this phone makes me really really happy.  I figure in a year or two it will let normal folks happily run their lives ios&#x2F;android-free.