Videos – 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 Videos – Purism https://puri.sm/ 32 32 When Technology Policy Defends Human Dignity https://puri.sm/posts/when-technology-policy-defends-human-dignity/ Thu, 18 Sep 2025 18:36:39 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=84366 In late August, Italy took a decisive step to protect women from one of the most insidious forms of online abuse: the non‑consensual sharing of intimate or misappropriated images. After years of complaints, activism, and public outrage, a notorious website — home to thousands of stolen photos of women, from ordinary citizens to public figures — was forced offline following a wave of legal and political pressure.

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]]> PureOS on Liberty Phone and Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-on-liberty-phone-and-librem-5/ Thu, 07 Sep 2023 15:57:24 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=80284 With the Librem 5 just hitting shipping parity and Purism holding stock for new purchases, it was time for an updated review of the tremendous progress our team has made with PureOS for the Librem 5 and Liberty Phone with Made in USA Electronics.  Here we will talk about the good, bad, and lasting effects of PureOS […]

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]]> How Purism is Advancing Made in USA Electronics https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-is-advancing-made-in-usa-electronics/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 19:56:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=76439 If you are curious to know how and why it matters where your phone is manufactured, CNBC’s new short documentary is for you. “Purism is one American company that has been able to do what many are calling the impossible” it says. CNBC wanted to find out why tech giants aren’t making smartphones in America. Take […]

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]]> Animating Pepper & Carrot with a respectful laptop https://puri.sm/posts/animating-pepper-carrot-with-librem-laptop/ Mon, 25 Apr 2022 15:16:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=74674 I made a 2D traditional animation as part of a project I am working on for Purism, with a goal to demonstrate the power of the Librem 14 as a creative platform. Therefore, as a follow up to my previous post about making hand drawn animations with Librem computers, and as an addition to the […]

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]]> Video Editing on Linux Featuring Librem 14 https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-on-linux-featuring-librem-14/ Thu, 27 Jan 2022 01:02:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73887 Video editing is a complex topic with a wide-range of software to choose from. In this series, produced with Gardiner Bryant, we will cover some of the common video editing suites available for Linux. We will then jump into some of the other software that you can choose when producing multimedia content on Linux. Instead of just […]

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]]> Year End Update for 2021, Looking Forward to 2022 https://puri.sm/posts/year-end-update-for-2021-looking-forward-to-2022/ Fri, 17 Dec 2021 22:13:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=73455 2021 was a year of transformation and growth for Purism, amidst real challenges. Thank you for all your support and contribution! This has been a particularly daunting year for the supply chain. Really, the global pandemic has made supply chains less reliable, and lead times and shipping times for various parts incredibly unpredictable. In midst […]

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]]> Announcing a New Video Series: Video Editing with Linux https://puri.sm/posts/announcing-a-new-video-series-video-editing-with-linux/ Tue, 21 Sep 2021 17:12:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=72859 When we were designing the Librem 14, we wanted it to be our dream laptop in all possible respects. This meant squeezing the most resources we could fit in there that could run coreboot and PureBoot. We settled on a tenth generation Intel i7 10710U CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads and combined with […]

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]]> The Simplicity of Making Librem 5 Apps https://puri.sm/posts/the-simplicity-of-making-librem-5-apps/ Fri, 09 Apr 2021 16:46:46 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=71520 The Librem 5 makes its application development workflow extremely simple.

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]]> Gaming That Respects You https://puri.sm/posts/gaming-that-respects-you/ Fri, 18 Dec 2020 17:37:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70560 The Librem 5 features high quality, free games that respect you. Play 2D and 3D games without ads, without in-app purchases, and without tracking. Discover the Librem 5 : Best Phone for Ad-Free Gaming Purism believes building the Librem 5 is just one step on the road to launching a digital rights movement, where we—the-people […]

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]]> A Phone That Respects Your Children https://puri.sm/posts/a-phone-that-respects-your-children/ Mon, 14 Dec 2020 21:04:27 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70483 Even if a child doesn’t have a phone of their own, they often borrow their parent’s phone to play games or watch videos. Most phones don’t distinguish between children or adults when it comes to the data they collect. The Librem 5 respects the privacy of you and your children by running free software that […]

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]]> Mobile/Desktop Convergence https://puri.sm/posts/mobile-desktop-convergence/ Mon, 23 Nov 2020 18:46:42 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=70133 Mobile/Desktop convergence is something that Purism had planned and has been developing since the launch of the Librem 5. It all started with the amazing work that Adrien initiated with the libhandy library, that let the default Librem 5 applications be adapted from the exact same applications running on the laptops. Now the Librem 5 […]

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]]> Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini part 3: Transitions https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-with-kdenlive-and-the-librem-mini-part-3-transitions/ Fri, 02 Oct 2020 19:39:52 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69501 This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini. To read part 2, covering keyframe animations – click here] In the third and final video of our video series on how to create professional movies with the Librem Mini and KDenLive video editing app, we’re […]

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]]> Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini part 2: Keyframe Animations https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-with-kdenlive-and-the-librem-mini-part-2-keyframe-animations/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 20:19:10 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69462 [This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini. To read part 1, covering transposing content over your media and using chroma key – click here] Last week we introduced you to a premier workflow for film editors and videographers using free software and freedom-respecting […]

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]]> Video Editing with KDenLive and the Librem Mini https://puri.sm/posts/video-editing-with-kdenlive-and-the-librem-mini/ Wed, 23 Sep 2020 23:05:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69379 [This is part of a series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton covering video creation on the Librem Mini.] Video content is one of the most popular forms of media for communication on and off the internet. Many creatives spend hundreds, if not thousands – to obtain licensed use to hardware and software as a […]

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]]> Making a 3D graphics video for the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/making-a-3d-graphics-video-for-the-librem-5/ Tue, 22 Sep 2020 16:07:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69399 At Purism, we do all our videos and other promotional material internally, with Librem hardware and free software only. This is part of our policy and I think it’s important, when I believe in something, to act in accordance with it. A few days after releasing the video of the Librem 5 hardware design, I […]

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]]> PureOS for Creatives Part 3: Studio and System Set Up with JACK https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-3-studio-and-system-set-up-with-jack/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 18:10:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69175 [This is part three of a three part series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton: PureOS for Creatives – covering music creation.  If you hadn’t read part one covering music production with LMMS but would like to, click here. For part two covering audio engineering with Ardour and Mixbus, click here.] In the PureOS for […]

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]]> PureOS for Creatives Part 2: Audio Engineering with the Librem 15 https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-2-audio-engineering-with-the-librem-15/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 18:22:44 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69154 [This is part two of a three part series by our guest blogger Tre Scranton: PureOS for Creatives – covering Music Creation.  If you hadn’t read part one covering music production with LMMS but would like to, click here.] PureOS, the operating system that powers Librem’s range of Purism products – is built upon a […]

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]]> PureOS for Creatives Part 1: Music Production with the Librem 15 https://puri.sm/posts/pureos-for-creatives-part-1-music-production-with-the-librem-15/ Fri, 21 Aug 2020 23:34:08 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=69073 [This is the first in a three-part series on PureOS for Creatives by our guest blogger, Tre Scranton] The possibilities and plethora of options using free software today are endless. In 2020, there is a free software equivalent for every mainstream commercial program on the market today. For photographers who use Photoshop, there is GIMP; […]

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]]> Purism CTO Presents “A Mobile Phone that Respects Your Freedom” at CCCamp https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cto-presents-a-mobile-phone-that-respects-your-freedom-at-cccamp/ Wed, 28 Aug 2019 18:05:50 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=65342 It is not easy to build hardware that respects your freedom, and it becomes even more challenging when that hardware is a mobile phone. No one knows this better than Purism CTO Nicole Faerber–and at CCCamp 2019 she elaborated on these challenges in a 45-minute presentation: “A Mobile Phone that Respects Your Freedom.” While we […]

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]]> Librem 5 July Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-july-update/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 16:25:24 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64648 Hi Everyone! The Librem 5 team has been hard at work. and we want to update you all on our software progress. These last few weeks have been heavily focused on polishing the UI and bug fixes, in order to get ready for a string of journalist demos. When we deliver the Librem 5, its […]

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]]> Up and Running With Your Librem in Three Minutes https://puri.sm/posts/up-and-running-with-your-librem-in-three-minutes/ Mon, 08 Jul 2019 12:48:54 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64293 Security and privacy for everyone The right to respect and privacy should be unconditional; within the digital world itself, it shouldn’t be necessary to be an expert in computer science to guarantee you can–and know how to–be entitled to those rights. Making secure and respectful devices is essential, but to be fully ethical, those devices […]

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]]> Made in USA Librem Key https://puri.sm/posts/made-in-usa-librem-key/ Thu, 27 Jun 2019 16:31:29 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=63240 Purism is happy to announce the new, made in USA Librem Key What does “Made in USA” mean? We would never use the words “Made in USA” lightly. We had to meet very strict requirements before being allowed to use that label. It’s well-known that other firms have been fined for mislabeling their Made in […]

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]]> Runs on the Librem 5 Smartphone – Week 1 https://puri.sm/posts/runs-on-the-librem-5-smartphone-week-1/ Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:21:36 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64344 As we steadily work towards the release of the Librem 5 smartphone (Q3 of 2019), we’re taking a look at one new application (or game, or feature) running on the Librem 5 Development Kit every single day. Below is the first week worth–Solitaire, web browser, system tools, note taking… just all over the map. Some […]

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]]> Librem 5 June Software Update https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-june-software-update/ Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:27:26 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=64261 Hi everyone! The Librem 5 team has been hard at work, and we want to update you all on our software progress. Conferences A couple of blog posts back, we mentioned that our hardware engineer gave a talk at KiCon—and it is available for watching now! Also, recently Tobias Bernard attended the Libre Graphics Meeting, […]

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]]> The Librem Key Makes Tamper Detection Easy https://puri.sm/posts/the-librem-key-makes-tamper-detection-easy/ Mon, 24 Sep 2018 14:38:35 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=59616 From the beginning we have had big plans for the Librem Key. When we first announced our partnership with Nitrokey to produce the Librem Key all we could talk about publicly was the standard USB security token features it would have and some of the integration possibilities between the Librem laptop and Librem Key that […]

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]]> Introducing Calls on the Librem 5 https://puri.sm/posts/librem5-progress-report-12/ Fri, 18 May 2018 15:12:43 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=52730 Introduction Arguably the most critical functionality in a phone is the ability to make and receive calls through the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN), that is normal cellular calls using phone numbers. While at Purism we are eager to implement communication systems that enable much greater privacy and security than one can expect from PSTN […]

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]]> Demonstrating Tamper Detection with Heads https://puri.sm/posts/demonstrating-tamper-detection-with-heads/ Tue, 17 Apr 2018 15:53:45 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=51194 We are excited about the future of Heads on Librem laptops and the extra level of protection it can give customers. As a result we’ve both been writing about it a lot publicly and working on it a lot privately. What I’ve realized when I’ve talked to people about Heads and given demos, is that […]

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]]> Librem 13 Promotional Video https://puri.sm/posts/librem-13v2-promotional-video/ Tue, 25 Jul 2017 08:13:14 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=20605 Let me introduce to you the new Librem 13 video. Unlike the other videos I have made to promote this beautiful laptop, I decided, this time, to stay away from any 3D computer graphics and to shoot the real device in a studio made for the occasion. This was pretty challenging as I wanted a […]

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]]> Purism CEO Todd Weaver interviewed on The New Screensavers episode #65 https://puri.sm/posts/purism-ceo-todd-weaver-interviewed-on-the-new-screensavers-episode-65/ Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:54:18 +0000 https://puri.sm/?p=5475 Purism CEO Todd Weaver made an appearance on the TWiT network on Saturday August 6th, 2016 with host Leo Laporte on the online TV show The New Screen Savers. Todd and Leo discussed Purism’s Librem line of products and what sets them apart from other free and non-free offerings, the importance of Free/Libre and Open-Source […]

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