I can't speak for the Librem 5, but I have the latest PinePhone Community Edition with PostmarketOS. It works out of the box for most things, including calls. The cameras and HDMI output aren't working right now, but fixes are coming soon for these issues (like next week).
Firefox works well with several tabs open. There are UI issues, but this is to be expected since practically no Linux desktop apps are designed for small screens. However, it's perfectly capable of running a responsive web app or two.
13+ years as CTO, Tech Strategist, and Senior Developer, building Platforms & Marketplaces.
If you are a Platform or Marketplace founder, I can:
- Build effective platform tools that enhance your user's transactions, and nudge them towards transacting more often.
- Help you collect the right data, and leverage it to match up producers and consumers, so they can transact effectively.
- Show you how to attract users to your platform, and help you solve the platform "chicken and the egg" problem.
About me:
- I'm writing a book on *Platform Growth Strategies*, coming out soon.
- I am language and technology-agnostic; I'll use whatever technology is most suited to solving my clients' problems. I've used a lot of tech in the last 13 years.
- I'm originally from Canada, but I've worked with clients all over the world: San Francisco, Austin, Seattle, Vancouver, Toronto, London, Berlin, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Taipei, and more.
There are some cryptocurrencies which are actually technologically novel. Unfortunately, they don't usually do a great job of marketing themselves, since their teams are more interested in building the technology than in making big bucks from ICOs or speculators.
For example, there is Monero and other "privacy" coins, which promise private and untraceable transactions. They are usually based on ring signatures.
Or IOTA which promises to scale to thousands of transactions per second, and is based on a Directed Acyclic Graph instead of a blockchain. The more devices or people who use it to make transactions, the faster it gets. Scalability is something Bitcoin is struggling with right now.
I built a very simple Doctor Who inspired WebGL game a while back. If I had known how simple this effect was I'd have included it! The (terrible) code is on GitHub if anybody wants to remix it: https://github.com/mattfran/developer-who
SEEKING WORK - REMOTE (based in Berlin, originally from Canada)
Over the last 9 years, I've helped innovative startups and businesses with all their web development needs. I am a full-stack Ruby & Javascript developer, providing a complete range of services, including project planning, front-end & back-end development, design/UX, and infrastructure setup. Writing rock-solid, reliable code that achieves your business goals is my priority.
Some technologies I use regularly: Ruby on Rails, AngularJS, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, ES6, jQuery, SASS, LESS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Nginx, Unicorn, Chef, Rspec, Capybara, Jasmine, Pub/Sub, Git, Linux, Bootstrap, and tons more. I follow proper object-oriented design principles (SOLID, DRY) and an Agile Test Driven Development workflow.
This could be pretty huge. I've dealt with several freight forwarding companies while building a previous startup of mine and it definitely struck me as an antiquated industry (this was 2007ish). Maybe a good benchmark for "disruptable" industries is that you have to actually make a telephone call to get something done. Time to get out the yellow pages and do some research!
When I was a young child, my local pool allowed kids to play on large floating foam rafts (like this, but half the length: http://goo.gl/7Y4HbU). One day I decided to show off my underwater swimming skills to a girl I fancied. After a long swim underwater, I exhausted my breath and came to resurface for air, only to get caught under a stacked pile of 5 of these rafts, with kids standing on top like in that photo! I panicked and didn't know what was going on. I don't remember what happened next, but I am told my father was watching me closely and jumped into the pool, pushed the mats off of me (thus throwing like 4 kids off the rafts into the water) and saved me.
Parents were angry at him for throwing their kids into the water. None of them even realized I had almost died. Not that I blame them though, it would probably look pretty funny to see a grown man knock 4 kids off some mats into the pool haha.
I once got "trapped" under one of those big diving rafts they put in lakes[1]. I swam down after one of those colored diving rings, and the wind blew the raft over me while I was under.
I was a pretty strong swimmer at that point, and more than a little lucky as well. I was able to collect my thoughts and get out.
I'm told I was only under there for about ten seconds, but my memory of it feels like about 2-3 minutes. It was easily the scariest thing that ever happened to me personally as a child.
Once we did rafting and our monitor guy told us: when you fall into the water and find yourself under the boat, just don't panic. Don't try to move your head up but rather chose whatever direction and swim until you reach the either side. We thought it would never happen, but we ended up few times in the water just like just like that. And even though it's just a few seconds you are quite disoriented and at first time don't know what to do.
I came to realize that a lot of things in life are easy when you practice beforehand. It's a good idea to identify things you don't expect how to handle and then go and learn to handle them. It's especially important to learn how to use the tools you may need in emergency so that they won't surprise you when you need to use them quickly. Otherwise having those tools only gives you false sense of confidence, which may be dangerous.
So for instance, I bought a fire extinguisher and used it up in some deserted bushes. It was a small expense, but now I'm fully aware how this particular type of extinguishers behave. Or when a friend wanted to buy mace (she was coming home late at night), we bought two and used up one for doing target practice, so that she's aware how the fluid stream behaves and how to aim it.
The biggest problem with this approach that I find is that there are so many things you could prepare yourself. Even if it usually would just take a few minutes and little to no expense, you can't train for things you don't realize exist as concepts or situations. For instance, thanks to this subthread it is the first time it occured to me that a situation like obstructed surface when diving in a pool can occur. I'm adding it to my mental list of things to prepare for when I get the opportunity.
Having done whitewater kayaking for a long time I cannot stress this enough. You need to practice being under water with being denied surfacing even if you strongly want to.
Once you are calm, you can orient yourself by observing air bubbles for example, even in turbulent water.
Yeah, I remember the same thing happening to me as well when I was young. Luckily in my case I had enough air to use my hands to pull myself along the underside to the edge. But you instantly thought "That was far too close". I wonder if they still have those in schools with pools nowadays.
Your humorous view on an otherwise harrowing story brought a smile to my face. Glad you made it. My dad was a life-guard though I never asked him for any stories, I should do that.
Mine helps travelers find hostels where there are lots of other people staying (https://hostelhawk.com). It's been a side project since I started working as a digital nomad over 1.5 years ago and has helped me find sociable hostels to stay in so I never get lonely. Uses Ionic framework + Angular.js. Still very much a work in progress, so any feedback is appreciated!
Right now the About button just shows the same Hostel Hawk popup from when the site loads; clicking it while it's already displayed does nothing. But I'll add more info about the site soon and fix that.
Basically you can explore the map and see what cities are most popular with travelers right now. You can zoom in and check out how many travelers are staying (approximately) at the tops hostels. The app also displays ratings weighed by number of reviews, so a hostel with only one review and a high rating won't outrank another one with thousands of reviews but a slightly lower rating.
My ultimate goal is to make finding popular sociable hostels super easy and ultra quick.
