Thanks to all those that came out to the GTALUG meeting, and the social afterwards. A couple of interesting items came up in conversation, so I wish to share the links more broadly. * Computer / Device Firmware fwupd: Updating Firmware in Linux https://fwupd.org/ https://fwupd.org/lvfs/devicelist I wrote about this a few months back when logitech got on board. But the explosion of UEFI updates for DELL hardware is encouraging. It's nice to see hardware vendors collaborate with the community to improve this part of the hardware life-cycle for Linux users. https://gtalug.org/pipermail/talk/2017-May/004847.html * Phones ** Librem 5 https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ Pursim, is a company offering laptops with the most comprehensive Free/Libre and Open Source for their hardware (their laptops ship CoreBoot). There now trying to do the same for a phone, and have successfully funded it's development. KDE and Gnome communities are on board for UI development. ** Unihertz Jelly http://www.unihertz.com/spec.html I tiny, Android 7, 4G LTE smartphone, that fits in your pants coin/watch pocket. It is feature packed, and I'm enjoying mine. The semi-rigid rubber case is nice, the armband... not so much. -- Scott Sullivan