[Testannounce] Updates from Purism, Social Impact, New Animation Using Librem 14 and More

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      Animating Pepper & Carrot with a respectful laptop

Purism's Librem 14 laptop can run professional-grade animation software 
such as Krita and Blender to produce top quality 2D animations. Preview 
this anime-style animation, developed with a maxed-out Librem 14 with 64 
GB of RAM along with a fast 2TB NVMe drive. Here is the making of Pepper 
and Carrot 
<https://puri.sm/posts/animating-pepper-carrot-with-librem-laptop/>, 
Librem style.


      The Future of Social Media Depends on You

As the conversation intensifies over the ownership of Twitter and its 
future, we have to think about whether we are inching towards a brighter 
future.

Their founders may have envisioned mainstream social media platforms as 
"inclusive town squares", owing to ad model pressures, they have turned 
into monstrous mavens that control, track and manipulate critical 
information in the internet age. Read how you decide what happens next 
to the future of social media 
<https://puri.sm/posts/the-future-of-socialmedia/>


      Purism Cares about Environmental Impact

Major technology companies incentivize users to replace their old 
devices with a new ones; we see mounting e-waste. The result is that the 
total weight of e-waste will be the heaviest artificial object 
<https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58885143> on face of the 
planet Earth.

Every day is Earth day at Purism. Longevity of tech products reduces 
waste. As a Social Purpose Corporation one of the areas we work toward 
is longevity of product along with right to repair, this allows us to be 
a largely different global manufacturer of digitally-responsible 
electronic products. Learn how 
<https://puri.sm/posts/purism-cares-about-environmental-impact/>.


      How to be Upstream-First

Over the past four years the Librem 5 software team has worked on dozens 
of upstream GNOME <http://gnome.org/> modules, resulting in many cool 
new features and improvements for people using GNOME across all devices, 
not just on mobile. These include helping to modernize apps such as 
Software, Contacts, Calculator, or Geary, adding and improving Settings 
panels, and of course the massive leap in consistency and developer 
experience that came with Libhandy 
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libhandy>/Libadwaita 
<https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita>. Tobias Bernard writes how 
Purism prioritizesupstream development 
<https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-be-upstream-first/>


      How to Power Your CS Labs with PureOS

With PureOS <https://www.pureos.net/> and Librem hardware 
<https://puri.sm/>, you can build a premium CS lab without premium 
licensing fees. Using community-driven freedom-respecting software 
<https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html>, schools can take 
learning beyond the classroom, into students' homes, and ultimately into 
the industry.

Let's learn how Free and Open Software like PureOS 
<https://www.pureos.net/> is a perfect choice for educational 
institutions here 
<https://puri.sm/posts/how-to-power-your-cs-labs-with-pureos/>.


      Definitive Guide to User Documentation for Librem Devices

Just received your new Librem device and looking for a comprehensive 
guide? The User documentation <https://docs.puri.sm/> is an excellent 
place to start. No matter what Librem device you own, you'll now have a 
quick and easy way to find your how-to videos without too much digging 
around. Book mark this guide 
<https://puri.sm/posts/definitive-guide-to-user-documentation-for-librem-devices/>.

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