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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How? I'm interested, because I wanted to buy one a few months ago :)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Check out Louis Rossmanns video about them. A rather shady company.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I just received mine after waiting 3+ years actually. It is pretty sweet with waydroid and KDE connect. I'm still not daily driving it because of the lack of a maps application with navigation though.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Sailfish OS I used to use Pure Maps, which seems to be available on Flathub. I don't know if it works on the Librem 5 though, but you might want to give it a try? There's also an optional dependency for offline maps.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, I saw this on Ubuntu touch also. I'll see if I can get the flathub repo loaded in. That will certainly increase the variety in apps I can use!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use Organic Maps on Android, but it also has a Linux version nowadays. I haven't tried it, but if it's the same codebase, that might work for you?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh cool! I'll give it a shot. Based on the other comment I got, I'll need to see if I can get flathub into the pureOS store.