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> Purism is using the only existing WiFi card that works with free firmware. It is less performant than typical proprietary ones. If you don't care about your f

> Purism is using the only existing WiFi card that works with free firmware. It is less performant than typical proprietary ones. If you don't care about your freedom strongly, you can replace the card (they are very cheap on ebay). Also, check Purism forums for such questions. It works better than "ten feet" for me. Not the wifi card, the surround material like the chassis are attenuating the signal (the librem 14 should have fixed this issue). I swapped mine out for a well supported and performant Intel card and only got marginal improvements to the signal. My "ten feet" was using it at coffee shops. I was traveling with the laptop. It was hard. The card switch did get it over the hump for this use case. Not an issue most of the time but still will have get a spot closer the router for video calls (like standup). So the constraints for work were getting a seat close the router AND a power plug. I ended up USB tethering with my phone alot. I do appreciate their contributions to the ecosystem but was wronged as a consumer. They need to be truthful. I take it you have the v3 with the standard boot drive?

fsflover 5y ago
> I take it you have the v3 with the standard boot drive? Yes, v3. What do you mean by "standard boot drive"? Using SSD if that's what you mean.
- ipodopt 5y ago
  The v4 updated the screen which burned more power. I remember telling them my real life results and them proceeding to not update their product marketing page while admitting it was based on the v3. I feel like they were already stretching it to begin with with v3 but you would know. I also got the fastest SSD they had in checkout. Which I think contributed to the booting race condition. I never got a link to an upstream ticket so I do not know if it is fixed. When I emailed them they said they do not have a laptop in that configuration to test, haha.
  - fsflover 5y ago
    This looks like a similar problem to yours. They fixed that, even though it affected SSDs that they did not themselves sell: https://forums.puri.sm/t/support-with-booting-from-nvme-ssd/6725 https://forums.puri.sm/t/support-with-booting-from-nvme-ssd/....
  - vngzs 5y ago
    Sad the high DPI displays didn't go well. My eyes can't take the 1080 vertical pixel displays that are still so common on open laptops nowadays. But I really want to like the Librems; there aren't many trustworthy laptops with kill switches out there. I have an X1 Carbon Gen 9 with a high DPI 16:10 display, 32GB RAM, and anywhere from 4 to 12 hours of battery depending on workload. It's worth a look for people who can tolerate Lenovo's history (BIOS rootkits targeting Windows in the non-ThinkPad lines).

fsflover 5y ago

> I take it you have the v3 with the standard boot drive? Yes, v3. What do you mean by "standard boot drive"? Using SSD if that's what you mean.

ipodopt 5y ago
The v4 updated the screen which burned more power. I remember telling them my real life results and them proceeding to not update their product marketing page while admitting it was based on the v3. I feel like they were already stretching it to begin with with v3 but you would know. I also got the fastest SSD they had in checkout. Which I think contributed to the booting race condition. I never got a link to an upstream ticket so I do not know if it is fixed. When I emailed them they said they do not have a laptop in that configuration to test, haha.
- fsflover 5y ago
  This looks like a similar problem to yours. They fixed that, even though it affected SSDs that they did not themselves sell: https://forums.puri.sm/t/support-with-booting-from-nvme-ssd/6725 https://forums.puri.sm/t/support-with-booting-from-nvme-ssd/....
- vngzs 5y ago
  Sad the high DPI displays didn't go well. My eyes can't take the 1080 vertical pixel displays that are still so common on open laptops nowadays. But I really want to like the Librems; there aren't many trustworthy laptops with kill switches out there. I have an X1 Carbon Gen 9 with a high DPI 16:10 display, 32GB RAM, and anywhere from 4 to 12 hours of battery depending on workload. It's worth a look for people who can tolerate Lenovo's history (BIOS rootkits targeting Windows in the non-ThinkPad lines).