Angus Ainslie – Purism https://puri.sm/ High-quality computers that protect your freedom and privacy Wed, 01 Oct 2025 18:29:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.28 https://puri.sm/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-purism-logo-rectangle-1-32x32.png Angus Ainslie – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 Shipping new SparkLAN Wifi cards with Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/shipping-new-sparklan-wifi-cards-with-librem-5/ Thu, 09 Feb 2023 22:45:38 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=77096 One of the unique features about the Librem 5 is its modular cellular modem and WiFi/Bluetooth cards. This not only aids in repairing hardware, it also means when new, compatible cards become available (or previous cards unavailable), we have the flexibility to change modules. Up until December 2022 all Librem5 phones had been shipping with […]

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]]> GPS Tuning the Librem 5 Hardware https://puri.sm/posts/gps-tuning-the-librem-5-hardware/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:25:54 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69294 Phone Hardware debugging in a duopoly Society is getting pretty used to the idea that the data and applications on phones are completely controlled by large corporations. Purism is working hard to change that with the Librem 5. Because of the market capitalization and duopoly control of the phone OS vendors, the hardware tool vendors […]

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]]> Solving the first FSF RYF hurdle for the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-solving-the-first-fsf-ryf-hurdle/ Tue, 19 Jun 2018 15:26:40 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=54626 While investigating using the i.MX 8 for the Librem 5 phone we found an issue that would have been problematic for us to obtain the Free Software Foundation’s “Respects Your Freedom” (RYF) hardware endorsement: In U-Boot there are a number of firmware blobs that need to be loaded into the DDR PHY so that it can […]

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