Klaus
 Mon, 24 Feb 2020 23:57:44 +0100 
Already 5 months delayed. :sigh

#^Coronavirus Update – Purism
Like many industries reliant on procurement and shipping from China we have also been affected by the developing COVID-19 outbreak. We have been in constant communication with our suppliers and now have been given dates when we can expect affected parts to arrive. We will continue to keep you informed on future developments. Our thoughts are with all those directly and indirectly affected in China and the rest of the world.

#librem5
Klaus

vintage computers

 Fri, 24 Jan 2020 18:47:31 +0100 
After spending a lot of time with talks and articles about cattle and throw away clusters this video is a pleasant counterpart. :-D


#^Here's What Happens When an 18 Year Old Buys a Mainframe
by SHARE Association on YouTube
Klaus

Evergreen

 Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:28:03 +0100 
Your estimated shipping batch:
"Evergreen" Batch - Starts March 31st

#librem5
Klaus
 Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:47:37 +0200 
Gibt es das Fairphone 3 eigentlich auch als Komplettbausatz zum selber zusammenbasteln?
#lazyweb
Klaus
 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:42:52 +0200 
#^Heute vor 25 Jahren: Die Insolvenz des Computerpioniers Commodore
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Am 29. April 1994 meldete die Computerfirma Commodore, Hersteller der legendären Heimcomputer C64 und Amiga, Insolvenz an.
Klaus
 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 22:39:57 +0100 
#^Wie Apple uns seine Kabel aufzwingt | netzpolitik.org
Vor einem Jahrzehnt versprach die EU-Kommission ein Ladegerät für alle Handys. Doch das gibt es bis heute nicht. Neue Dokumente zeigen, wie Apple mit Einfluss und fadenscheinigen Argumenten in Brüssel ein universelles Ladegerät verhindert.

#crapple
Klaus

PC-Upcycling

 Mon, 14 Jan 2019 23:09:42 +0100 
#^PC-Upcyling: Neues Leben für ungenutzte Rechner
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Circa 32 Millionen alte Rechner verstauben in deutschen Haushalten – wir zeigen zwölf Ideen, wie sie sinnvoll umgebaut werden können.
Klaus

Just give me KDE on a mobile device!!!

 Thu, 06 Dec 2018 02:10:16 +0100 
Unfortunately I need to look for a replacement for my Jolla phone, so when I read this announcement I thought this is a wonderful news. But I have quite stomach with their website. For example I didn't knew that it is still possible to have newsletter registration without double-opt-in. :facepalm

#^Necuno Solutions and KDE collaboration
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We are proud to announce our community collaboration with KDE and Plasma Mobile

Necuno Solutions and KDE collaborate to bring Plasma Mobile to the Necuno Mobile, a truly open source hardware platform

I really hope there will be a mobile device with KDE soon. I am waiting for this for so long already. The Spark/Vivaldi tablet was just amazing and the idea of KDE on mobile device really got me the first time I heard about it. It must have been at CeBIT 2012 where I hold this wonderful small red KDE tablet in my hand and I was really impressed. It felt so common and perfect match. Was a really sad disappointment to see this project fail.
From my experiences in the last 6 years I am quite reserved about Necuno Solutions so far. There is really not much information yet and I think the best guess at the moment is still with Purism Librem 5. But I still have the impression KDE is not more than a 2nd class citizen. They have more than enough to do, to get one stack ready at all at the moment.

BTW, Monday evening is FSFE Fellowship Meeting in Bonn. A Librem 5 dev wants to present a devboard. ;-)
Klaus

Eee

 Mon, 19 Nov 2018 16:18:56 +0100 
#^The Asus Eee: How Close Did the World Come to a Linux Desktop? | Linux Journal
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It was white, not much bigger than my hands held side by side, weighed about as much as a bottle of wine, and it came in a shiny, faux-leather case. It was the $199 Asus Eee 901, and I couldn't believe that a computer could be that powerful, that light and that much fun.
This is the story of the brief, shining history of the Asus Eee, the first netbook—a small, cheap and mostly well-made laptop that dominated the computer industry for two or three years about a decade go. It's not so much that the Eee was ahead of its time, which wasn't that difficult in an industry then dominated by pricey and bulky laptops that didn't always have a hard drive and by desktop design hadn't evolved much past the first IBM 8086 box.
Klaus

This is a solar-powered website, which means it sometimes goes offline

 Mon, 15 Oct 2018 00:07:23 +0200 
#^LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
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Low-tech Magazine refuses to assume that every problem has a high-tech solution. A simple, sensible, but nevertheless controversial message; high-tech has become the idol of our society.
Klaus

Weiternutzen statt wegwerfen

 Thu, 03 May 2018 21:39:34 +0200 
#^Die Reparatur-Revolution
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Lieber kaufen statt reparieren? Elektrogeräte sind reine Wegwerfartikel geworden. Gegen diesen Trend stemmen sich immer mehr Menschen. Sie fordern das Recht auf Reparatur.
Klaus

Calliope

 Bonn, GermanyThu, 21 Sep 2017 00:05:20 +0200 
#^CALLIOPE | Home
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Unsere Mission ist es, jeder Schülerin und jedem Schüler in Deutschland ab der 3. Klasse einen spielerischen Zugang zur digitalen Welt mit Hilfe der Calliope mini zu ermöglichen.


#^CALLIOPE | Home
Our mission is to give pupils from year 3 onwards a playful approach to the digital world.

With Calliope mini you have countless creative options right at your fingertip. You want to build a robot or transmit messages? With just a few clicks you can create a program for the microprocessor and make things move.

Besides 25 red plus one RGB LED and two programmable buttons the board contains a combined position sensor with motion sensor and compass as well as a bluetooth module that allows the Calliope mini to communicate with other devices. The board can't only be programmed with your computer: you can use an app to transfer apps you created yourself to your mini computer.
Klaus

Purism and KDE

 Sun, 17 Sep 2017 00:32:03 +0200 
This one with Plasma Mobile would be really nice. The only combination so far I would replace SailfishOS and Jolla with.

Librem 5 – A Security and Privacy Focused Phone
Librem 5, the phone that focuses on security by design and privacy protection by default. Running Free/Libre and Open Source software and a GNU+Linux Operating System designed to create an open development utopia, rather than the walled gardens from all other phone providers.

A fully standards-based freedom-oriented system, based on Debian and many other upstream projects, has never been done before–we will be the first to seriously attempt this.


Purism and KDE to Work Together on World’s First Truly Free Smartphone
Berlin/San Francisco, September 14, 2017 — Purism and KDE are partnering to help KDE adapt Plasma Mobile to Purism’s Librem 5 smartphone.

KDE develops Plasma Mobile, a free, open and full-featured graphical environment for mobile devices. Plasma Mobile has been tested on several off-the-shelf devices. However, most smartphones include hardware that requires proprietary software to work. This clashes with KDE’s principles of freedom and openness. It also makes building difficult, since many details of the hardware are kept secret, preventing complete access to all the components.
Klaus

building DC power grid

 Tue, 08 Aug 2017 11:58:32 +0200 
#^The Alternative Power Network – Providing a DC grid for hacker events.
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Hello and welcome to our information site. We are designing and building an alternative power network for the upcoming big Dutch hacker event SHA2017.

The idea of building a DC power grid to experiment with came to us at CCCamp 2015. We asked around and many people of the community would like to have an opportunity to share their surplus of solar / wind or other eco-friendly power during hacker events. Some people like the idea they can use “green” power on events, even if they have to modify some systems for it or adapt to using less power. Others are interested to study the dynamics of a DC system or would like to figure out how to send data over a DC grid. We would like to satisfy all of those people by building a transparent DC grid.
Klaus

small form factor Amiga

 Thu, 20 Jul 2017 18:02:12 +0200 
Why build an emulator if you have a real Amiga 500? Oh but it is still tempting.

#^Build A Killer Amiga Emulator For Under $100 With The Raspberry Pi 3 | HotHardware
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The Commodore Amiga still has a huge cult following, over 30 years since it was released. We show you how to build a killer, small form factor Amiga
Klaus

Die Schäfchen werden gemolken

 Fri, 24 Mar 2017 16:03:43 +0100 
#^Apple: iPhone-Reparaturen sollen teurer werden
Zur Behebung von Schäden müssen iPhone-Nutzer ab sofort tiefer in die Tasche greifen: Die Reparatur des iPhone 7 Plus kostet jetzt pauschal knapp 400 Euro, auch bei allen anderen Modellen wird es teurer; ebenso der Akkutausch.


#crapple
Klaus

KDE Slimbook

 Thu, 26 Jan 2017 22:46:50 +0100 
#^KDE and Slimbook Release a Laptop for KDE Fans
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Today KDE is proud to announce the immediate availability of the KDE Slimbook, a KDE-branded laptop that comes pre-installed with Plasma and KDE Applications (running on Linux) and is assured to work with our software as smoothly as possible.
The KDE Slimbook allows KDE to offer our users a laptop which has been tested directly by KDE developers, on the exact same hardware and software configuration that the users get, and where any potential hardware-related issues have already been ironed out before a new version of our software is shipped to them. This gives our users the best possible way to experience our software, as well as increasing our reach: The easier it is to get our software into users' hands, the more it will be used.
Furthermore, the KDE Slimbook, together with KDE neon, offers us a unique opportunity to isolate and fix issues that users have with our software. When something in Plasma, a KDE Application or some software using a KDE Framework does not work as intended for a user, there are at least three layers that can cause the problem:
  The KDE software itself
  The operating system
  The hardware or its drivers
Of course KDE always tries to reduce bugs in our software as much as possible. Problems can occur in any of the aforementioned layers, however, and often times it is difficult for us to pin-point exactly where things are going wrong. Last year, KDE neon joined the KDE community with the promise to give us control over the operating system layer. This does not mean we won't make our software available on other distributions or operating systems, of course, but it allows us to eliminate that layer as a possible source of a problem.
This left us still with one layer we had zero control over, though: The hardware layer.
Fast-forward to late last year, when the Spanish laptop retailer Slimbook approached KDE with the idea to offer KDE-branded laptops that come pre-installed with Plasma and KDE Applications. We were excited about the idea, and put our designers and developers to the task of creating a branding for such a device and making sure that KDE neon runs without any hardware-related issues on it.
For now, the KDE Slimbook will always come pre-installed with KDE neon, but we are open to offering other distributions that come pre-installed with Plasma for customers to choose from.
The KDE Slimbook is for people who love KDE software, regardless of whether or not they are active contributors to KDE.
For more information, visit the KDE Slimbook website.
Klaus

Openmoko retrospective

 Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:35:14 +0100 
#^Ten years anniversary of Openmoko
In 2006 I first visited Taiwan. The reason back then was Sean Moss-Pultz contacting me about a new Linux and Free Software based Phone that he wanted to do at FIC in Taiwan. This later became the Neo1973 and the Openmoko project and finally became part of both Free Software as well as smartphone history.
Ten years later, it might be worth to share a bit of a retrospective.
Klaus

Version 2 der Fairen Computermaus

 Wed, 23 Nov 2016 23:00:53 +0100 
#^https://www.nager-it.de/static/pdf/PMs/PM_Nager_IT-Version2_1116.pdf
Es war ein schleichender Prozess, aber nun haben wir ein Etappenziel erreicht:
Nach knapp vier Jahren fairer IT sind wir bei Version 2 der Fairen Computermaus angekommen. Was ist neu, im Unterschied zur Ursprungsversion die 2012 die Ära der Fairen IT einläutete?
Klaus

Calliope mini

 Fri, 28 Oct 2016 21:54:32 +0200 
#^Calliope mini: Mikrocontroller für die Grundschule
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Ab dem nächsten Jahr soll im Saarland der Mikrocontroller Calliope mini an Grundschulen eingesetzt werden. Die Betaversion erscheint bereits durchdachter als das Vorbild BBC Micro Bit.