How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software

Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by kgwxd on Thursday January 10, 2019 @03:54PM (#18878037)

What about the location and GPS hardware and the security and privacy concerns that come with them? I'd rather just give up nav. Again, I'd still pay more than an iPhone without the location hardware. Could still do manual direction searching on the web, though I secretly want to go back to paper maps.

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Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by megous on Thursday January 10, 2019 @04:31PM (#18878413)

That's only a problem if you don't control the software.

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Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by int_19h on Thursday January 10, 2019 @08:08PM (#18880157)

When you're using web maps, you do not control the software - they request location, you give access to it (because you want your maps to show where you are), and you don't control that location information once it leaves your phone.

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Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by megous on Friday January 11, 2019 @09:59AM (#18883942)

You don't need webmaps. OSM data are free to download and render locally. Navigation devices have offline maps, typically.

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Re:How We Designed the Librem 5 Dev Kit with Free Software by solarkraft on Friday January 11, 2019 @07:13AM (#18882961)

GPS is passive. Ideally they would just know which place you're requesting data about.

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