Thank *you* for your support!
/tct
I've also lowered the price of the 2nd extra batteries to 25 EUR (previously
it was 98 EUR). So now you can get a few hours of extra freedom too :)
I've re-added the 8GiB RAM option on Minifree's T400 product. They too were
hard to find, but a lot of people were asking about them - I therefore went
to every supplier I could find and bought 8GiB RAM upgrade kits.
So now you can get 8GiB of freedom :)
Thanks! Yes, we were planning to add most of the things you suggested as
options in order to make it more convenient for the customer.
The price of the N2 phone we sell is already well justified because it takes
many working hours to look for offers of good-condition phones, talk to
We've been testing the Note 2 for a month now and we're extremely happy with
its performance running Replicant 6.0.
https://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyNote2N7100
We have it in offer and we estimate it will become very popular very fast
among free software users:
vim is quite a nifty little editor. i've been using the setup on vimuser.org
(I wrote that page. I own vimuser.org) and it's great :)
I hack libreboot on that vim setup
hi ariella,
I replied to the individual, telling them I'd send them another T400. They
indeed should have working speakers.
I know why their speakers don't work... I'm dealing with it for them.
~Leah
hi,
https://vimuser.org/vim.html
this is my vim setup. it very much mimics the "atom" editor on github as much
as possible... while also being vim ;)
~leah
Hi Newgnu,
Actually, sound out of the speakers should work perfectly. I've had a word
with my employee who set up your laptop and told him: test the speakers
before shipping laptops. He was testing everything else, but overlooked the
speakers. This won't happen again.
If you want working
UPS collected earlier today, so your laptop has now shipped. Check the
tracking number that I gave you.
It should arrive some time next week.
thanks
Hi,
Libreboot is a libre BIOS/UEFI replacement that I and others work on. One of
our contributors recently re-added this guide:
https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/encrypted_trisquel.html
This shows how to install Trisquel with encrypted /boot/, aswell as
encrypting the rest of the
NOTE: you must use the netinstaller
Haha. You say you are "criticizing" me, while I "bash" ThinkPenguin and
Minifree, but you are not biased. Oh, the irony.
Without Richard Stallman working on GNU and Ian Murdock working on its distro
Debian (both founders) there would be no Minifree or ThinkPenguin. However,
Leah's behavior
Yes, on average we ship batteries that are about 50Wh, often more. 3+ hours
is what you should expect from the new battery. I'll email you as soon as
I've shipped it.
I'm testing some batteries for you now. I'll make sure to ship you a good
one. Due to high order volume we go by best estimation and probability of
reliability; we don't usually ship bad batteries.
Your replacement battery will be sent out via UPS, like the original laptop.
Though, you
For you, I would probably recommend the SSD for Trisquel (/ and swap), and
the 1TB HDD for extra data storage (/home). RAID is only really used in
enterprises, where continuous operation is required in the case of disk
failure; for simple laptop use-case by domestic users (or
I use a T400 myself and don't really notice any issues (and I'm a heavy user
of the keyboard).
Trisquel 7, by default, disables the "tap" feature that would let you tap the
touchpad to perform a click. So it's less likely that you would have that
issue with accidentally moving the cursor.
Yes, that's definitely not right. I'll ship another wifi chip along with your
battery, with instructions for how to install it.
(if you break anything when installing it, I'll fix it for free. It's easier
this way than sending it back through customs)
For instance, wear leveling means that parts of your data might be stored on
the drive and you have no way of wiping it, when the controller in the SSD
remaps flash cells.
Encrypting that is useful for security purposes. Encryption always (emphasis
on the word always) improves your
"We" means Technoethical. Contrary to the use of "we" by former Libreboot
lead, I do speak on behalf of my team.
/tct
False statement:
"This project has been extremely unusual in that it has been a Libre Hardware
and Software project right from the beginning."
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
You should be getting speeds of about 20-30 Mbps or more, depending on your
network, ISP etc
400Kbps definitely doesn't sound right
At the time of writing (20 June 2017, 2.40AM): we have 5 laptops packed, 7
laptops configured (but not packed), and another 10 flashed. I'm working over
the next few hours and my employee gets here at 6AM - if you haven't received
shipment notification yet, you will soon.
We are indeed
Thanks :)
I'll get your order shipped as quickly as possible.
I was working on improvements to Libreboot's hosting infrastructure during
the weekend, but my employee is working overtime at the moment so I should be
able to ship out your battery soon.
I looked up my records, and I think I know who you are; I've added a note to
my outgoing shipments
Hi ariella,
Email me your order number and I'll ship you another battery. Regarding the
wifi, I'm unsure; use your USB dongle for the time being, but if you'd like I
can also send you a new wifi chip to install - with full installation
instructions (installing it will not void your
In my experience, encryption on an SSD doesn't cause any performance issues.
I've been using full disk encryption (including /boot/) on my SSD for a year
now with no problems.
I have posted this before:
On 28.08.2016 22:30, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > But since FSF also encourages people to free the design of their
> > hardware, wouldn't be important to tell them that if they promote their
> > hardware as "libre hardware" they should distribute the free PCB
If only what you wrote was true. I won't go back to arguing with you, but
I'll leave these notes:
> I did not elevate the discussion onto a personal level
You have: "Then he is constantly whining"
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available?page=2#comment-116393
> I am
We are in agreement.
/tct
They work as a group and their track records in other threads prove this. As
I mentioned before, this has been only a reaction. Also, it is completely
false that we have downvoted "any dissenting view". We have used the voting
system to restore valid posts that were intentionally hidden and
That has been a reaction to the trolls' abuse of the voting system. As one of
them admitted, "before, things looked quite the other way round." The
discussion was back on track and more useful information about the T400s has
been posted since, but they were hiding on-topic messages they
Yes, the default is to use tmpfs for /tmp
Hi :)
For most people, no real performance issues will be noticed with HDDs.
Applications are cached in memory during normal operation, for programs that
you're running regularly. So if you're usually running a browser and an email
client, maybe a few terminals, then you won't really
300 MHz gain (T9600 vs SP9600) doesn't seem a lot to trade for a much lighter
and thinner laptop.
What is the most powerful CPU you are using now in your librebooted laptops?
/tct
I think now I understand your question. The mainboards of other laptop models
are not compatible with the T400s chassis.
/tct
SP9600 (6M Cache, 2.53 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB) is the most powerful processor that
is soldered on the T400s boards. It is equivalent to the T9400 CPU upgrade in
the T400.
/tct
What CPU has your T400s?
@GNUbahn Yes, T400s doesn't have soldered RAM. It has two upgradable memory
slots.
@Heather T400s, T410s, T420s and T430s all have two upgradable memory slots,
and no RAM is soldered on the board. The T440s is the first in the series to
have 4GB soldered on the board and only one
The discussion is back on track. We call on everyone to not feed the trolls
by replying to their comments.
/tct
hi uboot
one of the things i had in mind was to have the aspeed and external gpu both
connected to the same monitor, and configure everything so that the output
switched after grub,
i haven't tested that dual-gpu idea yet, though
Hi Tiberiu,
Note that we prefer GNU Free Documentation License v1.3 or higher, without
invariant sections, for the libreboot documentation.
I don't consider you to be a threat. I personally support you (despite my
position running Minifree) and so does the Libreboot project; this was one
Yes, we plan to write a tutorial showing how to flash Libreboot on the T400s.
All our works are licensed under free licenses, so it will be easy to include
our tutorial in the documentation at libreboot.org.
FWIW, we've always encouraged and helped people to start businesses around
fully
great :)
Feel free to post here your review once it arrives.
Hi Tiberiu,
Can you also document (ideally with photos too) how to flash the T400S?
libreboot.org documents T400 flashing, but not T400S. T400S requires heavy
amounts of soldering and the procedures differ a lot.
The documentation on libreboot.org is in Markdown and easy to modify. See:
There have been questions regarding the Libreboot code running on the
Technoethical T400s.
Our policy is to use the latest stable official version of Libreboot on our
laptops. That is 20160907.
https://libreboot.org/release/stable/20160907/
We confirm that everything that works in the
That's fine :)
We used to have a mailing list for user support, but we found that a mailing
list wasn't an optimal place for such use-case. User support is handled much
more efficiently on IRC. So the new mailing lists are for development only;
mailing lists are very efficient for code
hey
sudo apt-get install xsensors
this is what i use. it works well.
"I can hear you, can you hear me?" pretty much describes my own experience
with tox
You go ahead, maybe others like you will follow you inside the lounge. Your
efforts to throw this thread in the trash bin are noted.
We at Technoethical would like to be able to continue answering questions
about our T400s laptop installed with fully free BIOS and OS.
I won't repeat myself. If you want an explanation, please read with attention
my comments here:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116154
(the paragraph before the last quote)
Please don't engage in troll-like behaviour. You're not helping. At all.
By using words like "bitching" and "whining", you and Magic Banana prove you
are hostile towards me.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116061
A new forum member doesn't even need to go through the hassle to track your
past comments in other threads,
Please feel free to submit reviews in the dedicated forum threads such as:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-minifree-reduces-price-once-again
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-returns-minifree-trisquel-preinstalled-permanently-reduced-price
/tct
We won't reply to biased comments such as yours.
/tct
thanks. i'll see what i can do about merging that in libreboot
can you integrate this patch in libreboot? i've added an issue about it on
the bug tracker
with methods to establish whether the system has been physically opened, plus
a BIOS password (in SeaBIOS) preventing boot until entering the correct one,
that should be an acceptable compromise if you don't have encrypted /boot/
(i'd recommend this even with encrypted /boot/)
Everyone knows you're biased, Magic Banana. Why bother.
I suppose you mean well, but please stop insulting me without pointing to any
evidence of my "paranoia".
You write: "I didn't call you during the night". But you have, in this forum,
replying to comments that weren't mine:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available?page=1#comment-116274
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available?page=1#comment-116275
yeah use keyfiles. that'd do it
Hi Tiberiu,
See:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available?page=1#comment-116270
I didn't call you during the night; I don't know your telephone number, and I
don't care to know it.
Once again, as in that post: I apologize. Let's agree to make peace, and move
on.
Hmm, I wake up in the morning seeing 23 new comments in this thread shredded
by Leah yesterday with her false claims about T400s.
Leah, I see that during night you've put to work quite the machinery to fill
another page of this thread with comments taking your side, a thread that was
not
Tiberiu, let's end this pointless squabble. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available?page=1#comment-116270
Tiberiu, let's end this pointless squabble. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available?page=1#comment-116270
Tiberiu,
Alyssa Rosenzweig, Libreboot's sysadmin and spokesperson, just emailed me.
She CC'd you too.
She yelled at both of us, telling us we went too far, that we are both being
childish and that we shouldn't fight.
And I'm inclined to agree. Let's end this here. Alyssa has interjected
interesting.
Indeed. I worked hard for a solid 3-4 months getting X200 stable in
Libreboot. Another 2 for the others (T400, R400, T500 - I still plan to port
R500 at some point, whenever I have the time). Tiberiu then starts also
selling Libreboot, thus competing with Minifree. He then tries to claim
I'm not sure it matters. As far as I know, all board revisions should work.
What were you wrong about?
Tiberiu, this is the truth:
if Minifree went bankrupt tomorrow, i wouldn't care. it wouldn't be the end
of the world. My resume is quite impressive at this point and I could easily
get a job. And there are plenty of other profitable businesses that I could
start (which i've done extensive
yes. that's the impression i get
contrary to what he claimed afterwards, all i did was criticize him openly,
for flaws in his product.
i'm quite happy for tiberiu to make a tidy profit on the T400S and other
laptops that technoethical sells. i really don't care.
i care a lot less
Who are you accusing of having mental illness; me, or Tiberiu? I think both
of us are sane, I just think we are both angry with each other.
In answer to your question: I used to present as a guy, named Francis Rowe.
I came out publicly, in Libreboot and the wider Free Software community, as a
i wasn't trying to hide the truth. i was trying to hide your *slander*
against me since you obviously want to try to discredit me and spread FUD
about *me* as much as possible, despite claiming that I'm doing the same to
you. you are openly attacking me in public. this goes beyond mere
I know what you mean. We were ready to start selling T400 with Libreboot back
in December 2015, but we were discouraged by Rowe. Below exempts from the
e-mail exchange, as response to her invitation earlier "Yes, please do tell
us how Minifree mistreated you."
% Hi Francis,
>
>
we looked into this in libreboot. paulk and i decided that this system was
not worth bothering with
I'm not sure about Trisquel, but it might be possible to use Parabola on one.
It supports BBB, which uses the same ARMv7 CPU
i use syncthing myself and i can definitely recommend it
have a look at openstreetmap
gnulux, i can definitely vouch for G41M libreboot if you want a cheap libre
desktop with trisquel. i use one myself, for testing and it works very well
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/ga-g41m-es2l.html
make sure that you're not leaking your real IP though. that can happen, even
when using a VPN. if you install libreCMC on a router, you can use that
router to set up a VPN client for your whole network
GNUbahn, are you still working on this? we in libreboot might be able to help
out
The mailing list is also suitable for code review:
https://libreboot.org/git.html#how-to-submit-your-patches-via-mailing-list
did you try running "apt-get update" before installing enigmail via apt-get?
i've set up enigmail in trisqule before and trisquel 7 does have the package
GNU Ring may also be a suitable alternative to Tox. I haven't tried it
myself, but I'm interested.
http://ring.cx/
this can be quite useful with videos sometimes. you can play the .part in a
media player while it downloads, so you're basically streaming
https://vimuser.org/vim.html ;)
interesting. i didn't know this place was formatted from a mailing list.
subscribing..
i once lost 3TiB of data for the same reason. I did'd 2 drives in my RAID 5
volume, consisting of 3 drives. no backups
look into setting up rsync cronjob for regular backups, onto another system.
ebay?
this person did it on ubuntu 14.04, which trisquel 7 is based on:
https://linoxide.com/ubuntu-how-to/install-deepin-desktop-environment-derivatives-ubuntu/
GNU Ring is also p2p chat i think
this is also present on other distros that i've tested. maybe even parabola.
i'm not sure what causes it, but i'm aware of it. submit a bug report if one
hasn't already been reported.
then make them read "Brave New World" and "1984"
it seems minetest themselves also maintain daily/unstable builds
http://www.minetest.net/downloads/
soon to be free, do you have an IRC channel or some chatroom / mailing list
for your project? i'm interested
I second mediagoblin. i've used it locally on my own network before, as a
local media server and it works very well
if you have separate drives encrypted, then yes you have to unlock all of
them.
However, it should be possible to unlock just one of them and have a keyfile
(on the first encrypted drive) that automatically unlocks all the other
drives.
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