Those switches are software under the hood though, at least as far as I can tell. I installed freebsd on my purism laptop, and it no longer shuts off the camera/microphone.
> Two hardware kill switches, microphone/camera and wireless/bluetooth
> Now with a physical toggle switch, when your camera and microphone are switched off, you know they are off. Wireless and Bluetooth are combined in a second hardware switch to control all your radio signals inbound and outbound.
That would be a flat out lie if it wasn't actually a hardware switch which is hard to believe for a company whose entire identity and reputation is tied to these exact features.
I reached out to them a couple of times, and they asked if I had rfkill installed, I told them no, but it shouldn't matter if it was a hardware switch.
They told me that they would look into it, and then never responded after that.
That's a major accusation. Can you do a video or blog post where you show this happening? Eg, start recording something and hit the switch and show it continuing to record.
Switches on one device don't necessarily indicate how it's done on a different device.
As far as I remember Purism has always claimed that it's hardware switches on the phone, and I don't see why they'd lie because it would be very easy to verify.
I've never installed purism's version of linux, and they seem to work - I recall the camera/microphone disappear from the usb bus, shown in syslog. I don't remember what happened with the wifi/bt as I leave them off.
I could go check this behavior.
I haven't tried freebsd - could it be freebsd doesn't check for a hotplug?
hombre_fatal|6 years ago
> Two hardware kill switches, microphone/camera and wireless/bluetooth
> Now with a physical toggle switch, when your camera and microphone are switched off, you know they are off. Wireless and Bluetooth are combined in a second hardware switch to control all your radio signals inbound and outbound.
That would be a flat out lie if it wasn't actually a hardware switch which is hard to believe for a company whose entire identity and reputation is tied to these exact features.
CaptSpify|6 years ago
I do have a video of the wifi in action though: https://tmp.thekyel.com/month/wifi.mp4
I reached out to them a couple of times, and they asked if I had rfkill installed, I told them no, but it shouldn't matter if it was a hardware switch.
They told me that they would look into it, and then never responded after that.
leethargo|6 years ago
kardos|6 years ago
alpaca128|6 years ago
As far as I remember Purism has always claimed that it's hardware switches on the phone, and I don't see why they'd lie because it would be very easy to verify.
m463|6 years ago
I could go check this behavior.
I haven't tried freebsd - could it be freebsd doesn't check for a hotplug?