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is anyone from New Zealand - Christchurch interested in a meetup?

Typical digital privacy topics and introduction to postmarketos, mobian, arch linux mobile etc. I could bring devices to demonstrate.

Just simple conversations for 1-2 hours every 3 months or so.

#newzealand #christchurch #postmarketos #mobian #archlinux #MeetUp #Meetings

@publiclewdness
thanks!
i just tried on #pmos which went well until setting the new password requires sudo rights, but cant open gnome-disks with doas:

I try to donate to various FOSS projects and developers each week when I get paid for the last few years. I spent a little time going over things and I am quite happy with how 2024 went for that. I managed to donate a total of $1705.16 CAD that went to a total of 86 projects and/or developers. That was a huge jump up from 2023's total of $899.97 CAD. That may seem like a lot but boiled down my 2024 total is $4.67 CAD a day. I spend more on coffee than that. I spend more on snacks when on break at work than that some days. I share this just because if you use FOSS projects and you want them to continue to thrive and improve try to see what little bits you can give to the people and groups that make it happen because little bits add up over the course of the year. One thing I am going to try to do is have a little more focus for 2025 and try to make sure more of the money goes to projects that I use daily rather than ones that are more of a passing interest.


The top ten Projects/Developers I donated to in 2024 were:

Purism
https://puri.sm/


Trisquel
https://trisquel.info/


OpenHV
https://www.openhv.net/


Open Collective
https://opencollective.com/


Nitrux
https://nxos.org/


Mate
https://mate-desktop.org/


Red Eclipse
https://www.redeclipse.net/


Droidian
https://droidian.org/


3mdeb
https://3mdeb.com/


Castle Game Engine
https://castle-engine.io/

Happy 2025 everyone! On this first day of the fresh new year we are happy to announce 50 Free and Open Source projects were selected to receive NGI Zero grants.

We'd like to congratulate all the teams and individuals and thank them for working on a better internet for us all.

Come over and meet the projects:
nlnet.nl/news/2025/20250101-an

#FOSS #NGI #NGIZero

I went over how easy it was to enable Full disk encryption on the FLX1 recently, so today I'm going to go over how to change the FDE password on a Librem 5 which uses PureOS. The Librem 5 comes preinstalled with FDE, at least mine did. The default password is on the bottom right square of the quick start guide, mine was "123456". To change this you just open the Gnome Disk Utility (also known as "Disks"), Tap the 31GB Disk, tap Partition 2, tap the gear in the bottom left, tap change passphrase, enter current password, enter new password, confirm new password, tap change password, then reboot the phone. Many mobile Linux options lack FDE outright and those that have it can make it difficult to setup. PureOS on my Librem 5 not only has it but it is very easy to change which is good because keeping a known default password is a terrible idea.

So a easy quick breakdown of the steps above is:

disks>select partition>gear>change passphrase>enter current>enter new>confirm>change>reboot

According to Liberapay they processed over $1 million in donations in 2024 from 1535 donors hailing from 56 countries. If you haven't heard of them Liberapay is a FOSS donations platform. If you use any FOSS project I would check and see if they use Liberapay for donations or if any of their contributors do.



Their main website is here:

https://liberapay.com/





Their source code is hosted on Github:

https://github.com/liberapay





They have a presence on Mastodon:

https://mastodon.xyz/@Liberapay





If you wish to help them financially they accept donations through the Liberapay platform:

https://liberapay.com/Liberapay

If you're not using a free password manager, the end of the year is a great time to make the switch. Visit the #FSD for your new password manager: u.fsf.org/44r

🐧 #12DaysOfLinux Day 8 🐧

Individual AlmaLinux OS Foundation members, you help us see how many people are impacted by the work we do -- so thank YOU! 🎉

Not a member yet? Make it your 2025 resolution to sign up! 🔗 almalinux.org/foundation/membe #Linux

📈 In 2024 Liberapay processed donations worth a total of 1 million US dollars for 1535 recipients in 56 countries.

Happy new year!

Assigning your copyright to the FSF helps defend the GPL and keep software free. Thanks to Justin Fields, Divya Ranjan Pattanaik, and John Devin for assigning their copyright to the FSF! /#Emacs /# gawk More: u.fsf.org/3ht #CopyrightAssignments

In this video, AlmaLinux OS Foundation Board Member Jack Aboutboul chats with Jay LaCroix from #learnlinuxtv about ELevate:

✅ Types of migrations made possible by ELevate
✅ How to contribute to ELevate
✅ Recent upgrades

Watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=fP6YK5bY9a
#AlmaLinux #Linux #OpenSource

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