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    <title>waydroid &amp;mdash; Free as in freedom</title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 13:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
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      <title>More freedom - more fun   </title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Librem5 is finally here&#xA;&#xA;Finally, after long waiting, I received my librem5 phone. Librem5, made by purism, aims to focus on privacy, security and freedom. It is impressively free on the hardware + firmware side and it runs 100% free software.&#xA;&#xA;The long waiting has forced me to buy an interim device, a relatively cheep #PinePhone.&#xA;comparing to the #PinePhone, Librem5 is much faster, which makes it&#39;s user experience significantly better and improves usability. It came with #PureOS (#purism home #Linux distribution) pre-installed, with rootfs partition encrypted.&#xA;Chatting (#matrix, #signal) and browsing is finally easy and simple as it should be.&#xA;I installed #Waydroid (Android in container) and I use WhatsApp  on top if it. once again, it works much faster then on #PinePhone.&#xA;Librem5 has 3 physical kill-switches. they let you shutdown camera+microphone, WiFi+Bluetooth and modem, directly at hardware level, for privacy reasons. I don&#39;t plan to use those switches regularly, but it might be useful on some situations.&#xA;There is still a lot to explore and many problems to fix, but it&#39;s another successful step to freedom.]]&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2 id="librem5-is-finally-here" id="librem5-is-finally-here">Librem5 is finally here</h2>

<p>Finally, after long waiting, I received my librem5 phone. Librem5, made by purism, aims to focus on privacy, security and freedom. It is impressively free on the hardware + firmware side and it runs 100% free software.</p>

<p>The long waiting has forced me to <a href="https://paper.wf/free-as-in-freedom/fun-and-freedom-come-together" rel="nofollow">buy an interim device</a>, a relatively cheep <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:PinePhone" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">PinePhone</span></a>.
comparing to the <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:PinePhone" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">PinePhone</span></a>, Librem5 is much faster, which makes it&#39;s user experience significantly better and improves usability. It came with <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:PureOS" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">PureOS</span></a> (<a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:purism" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">purism</span></a> home <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:Linux" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Linux</span></a> distribution) pre-installed, with rootfs partition encrypted.
Chatting (<a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:matrix" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">matrix</span></a>, <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:signal" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">signal</span></a>) and browsing is finally easy and simple as it should be.
I installed <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:Waydroid" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Waydroid</span></a> (Android in container) and I use WhatsApp  on top if it. once again, it works much faster then on <a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:PinePhone" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">PinePhone</span></a>.
<a href="/free-as-in-freedom/tag:Librem5" class="hashtag" rel="nofollow"><span>#</span><span class="p-category">Librem5</span></a> has 3 physical kill-switches. they let you shutdown camera+microphone, WiFi+Bluetooth and modem, directly at hardware level, for privacy reasons. I don&#39;t plan to use those switches regularly, but it might be useful on some situations.
There is still a lot to explore and many problems to fix, but it&#39;s another successful step to freedom.</p>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 22 Apr 2023 15:25:14 +0000</pubDate>
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