Comment by margalabargala 13 hours ago
Looking at what's missing from their roadmap here: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5/
No videos? Fine, I rarely take videos.
No bluetooth? Mildly annoying, but especially with the 3.5mm jack, I could live without it.
No GPS? This one would be a deal-breaker for me.
But depending on the person I can see it being usable.
That's great to know; but Purism really ought update that, I'm sure they are losing sales from that being so out of date.
Ouch. It seems to be even more incomplete than I thought. The lack of Bluetooth and GPS is kind of surprising, since those things have worked on Linux laptops for at least a couple of decades or so.
>No bluetooth? Mildly annoying, but especially with the 3.5mm jack, I could live without it.
For most people, it can be difficult to predict future scenarios for Bluetooth that's unrelated to wireless earphones. I always use wired earphones and didn't think I ever needed Bluetooth and always had it disabled. However, I was later forced to use it to configure new devices. E.g.:
- internet router (Eero) from ISP has no buttons or a status display so required Bluetooth on smartphone to configure it
- battery backup power station (Delta Ecoflow) require Bluetooth to configure them
The common theme is for device manufacturers to avoid adding elaborate LCD displays or touchscreen interfaces to the actual device and instead -- offload the configuration UI to the customers' smartphones... which necessitates pairing via Bluetooth.
At least we can hope - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Bluetoo...
Last week for the first time I've used WebUSB to configure flight controller for my drone/wing. Felt like magic.
That image is seriously out of date. Bluetooth, GPS, and even recording video all work fine.