I got tired of Leah underestimating everyone's capacity to judge for
themselves if something is true or not, based on facts.
It's ridiculous how she considers that we're all morons and that we'll simply
take her word despite what we see with our own eyes.
I'm also tired of having to come
Alternatively, I'm right, and your response is - and vltr's supporting
comment - is a desperate attempt at denial.
You two are in perfect sync, both in the timing of your posts, and in the
things you say, and the attitudes that you have.
This is mere speculation. It's impossible to prove
Just for the record, for clarity, I want to say what happened:
* Technoethical tried to trash Minifree in this thread, suggesting that
Minifree provides poor quality service/products
* One of my customers, whose order I did genuinely screw up - yes, mistakes
happen, sometimes. they are none
Yes, this ^
This former customer of mine does not appreciate the great lengths I've gone
to to make things right, with their order, one of those few rare ones I mess
up on - which I've admitted I messed up several times.
Instead of being happy, they went an an angry crusade against me
Actually, no. It's just you and Tiberiu against me. Nobody else.
But you've tried to turn others against me, by painting Minifree as being
worse than it is. You've repeatedly spread FUD against my company, and I hope
that the negative effect of everything you and Tiberiu have done in this
I literally do not defraud or deceive my customers.
I literally ship every order, or refund when requested.
The comments by this person and Tiberiu in this thread are blatant,
consistent, concentrated attacks against me.
I ship almost every order, in good time, and the products that I sell
No answer? Very well:
Here's what happened: either you didn't ask for refund/repair/replacement, or
you did ask and I provided it.
Despite what you claim to the contrary, I didn't defraud or mistreat you
either. True, I messed up your order, I freely admit that, but what you've
said
Despite what you claim to the contrary, I serve most of my customers well.
Their order is shipped in reasonable time, in good quality.
In the rare circumstance that I do mess up an order, such as yours, I always
promptly offer to send a replacement or repair the unit, or otherwise fix the
Hence "if I recall correctly". Can you remind me what actually happened?
Btw
There is a difference between a critic and a troll
food for thought?
I just want the trolling, the FUD and the slander against Minifree to stop.
It has repeatedly been suggested, in this thread, that Minifree deceives its
customers and that it ships poor quality products and provides low quality
service.
These suggestions are 100% false.
Until today,
I'll say it once more: your order was a mistake. I rectified it as best i
could. You chose not to exercise your rights. You are still well within your
right to either receive a refund, repair or replacement of any faulty product
that you received.
I'll also say this once more: your bad
I request that all of Technoethical's posts in this thread be deleted, along
with any posts related to the dispute that I had with them. The negative
review against Minifree should be moved to a separate thread.
The threads promoting Technoethical should also be deleted. They are spam,
In fact, Technoethical (aka Tiberiu) posted on this very thread, threatening
Minifree legally.
Btw I repeatedly said, in this thread, that Technoethical is also a good
alternative to Minifree. This, in spite of them spamming about themselves in
this thread that wasn't about them.
At no point have I ever told people not to buy from Technoethical. I have
only ever asked Technoethical
^ I 100% agree with this. This is not the first time I've had a major dispute
with Tiberiu/Technoethical on Trisquel forums.
I want it to stop. I posted this thread here about Minifree's Libreboot X200
with the intention of telling people about it, and answering questions etc.
Also taking
So hey, Tiberiu.
As I said earlier, I don't want to talk to you. I only came to this thread to
check up on it just now. Just FYI: I shipped 8 laptops today. I'm shipping
many more tomorrow, and on Friday.
I'm sending them all to Trisquel forums to write reviews.
~Leah
I want it to be known that I 100% agree with loldier and gnutastyc.
The purpose of this thread is to promote Minifree's Libreboot X200, and to
answer questions about it. Nothing else.
I do hope Technoethical will stop trying to trash this thread. I have no
intention to continue
Leah:
> 3) ...oh look, a competitor is spamming my thread with their product
instead.
Citation needed. You think zotis is on of your competitors?
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-x200-returns-minifree#comment-124128
Tiberiu
Sigh
People like me, huh? Get over yourself, sheesh
But yeah, borderline sociopaths never know when to quit. So I'm asking you:
please stop this madness.
Here's a factual account of what has happened in this thread:
1) I posted a link telling people about a newly launched product for this
Leah:
> You also see fit to promote yourself, in a thread that is not about your
company, while attempting to de-rail this thread.
Get real. The history of events:
1. You announce the re-launch of X200 at Minifree, inviting people to place
orders.
2. A forum member recommends buying from
As stated before, I wish to stop talking to you. Please stop responding in
this thread, and please stop lying that Minifree sells low quality products:
it doesn't. Minifree is an honest company, and provides the best quality it
possibly can. Your statement that good, decent products from
Like I said, I don't want to talk to you further. You continue to spread FUD
about me, and accuse me of doing the same. I never got anyone to post in your
T400S thread.
Of course, it's only natural that you'd deny my accusations, while continuing
to take part in this thread. Your tactic
Leah:
> It's clear that it is in his best interest to trash me as much as possible
That has never been among my objectives. Nor wish that your company didn't
exist, as you've accused me of in one of your earlier comments.
I just wish, like everybody else, that you stop lying that your prices
Leah:
> It's obvious to me that Tiberiu asked you to do this. The timing is too
perfect.
False. Allow me to speculate about the timing: you announce the relaunch of
one of your products and invite people to buy from you. This reminds people
that they don't have a good experience with your
Leah:
> Finding one of my angry customers, someone who was unhappy with the service
they received at Minifree, who then told Technoethical about this and bought
from them instead, and asking them to vandalize a Minifree thread on the
Trisquel forums... this is not an attack? Interesting.
I want to say that I very much 100% agree with SuperTramp83.
I'm not happy at all with what Tiberiu and Technoethical has tried to do to
this thread. Successfully, it seems.
I sincerely hope that people do not believe their statements about me. It's
clear that it is in his best interest to
So hey, can you stop trying to trash Minifree?
It's obvious to me that Tiberiu asked you to do this. The timing is too
perfect. I mean call me paranoid but... yeah.
I'll repeat again: your order at Minifree was under warranty. So if you did
receive a bad product, you were within your right
Indeed. As previously stated, Minifree offers a 2 year warranty on all
orders. As also stated, I do not wish to discuss with Tiberiu further.
You are also quite correct that you are not at fault for what you interpreted
as a bad experience. If you want me to do something with your previous
Btw the +1 is from me.
I admire you, Tiberiu, I really do. This post demonstrates how committed you
are to your current pursuit.
Hint hint: what I say/think in the past is not necessarily the same as what I
say/think now.
Here's what I say/think now: Technoethical is a wonderful company,
Actually, work on the X220 is ongoing. I haven't given up on that, I just
haven't had enough time to work on it due to selling T400s in the last couple
months. My workload is higher now than it was back then. The 15 or so X220
pre-order customers have all been offered refunds.
As
Leah:
> I, personally, pushed for the current suppliers page that is on Libreboot's
website, which very openly endorses your company and tells people to buy from
you.
LOL, you have some nerve to say that.
The history of events:
Between 2nd and 3rd of April:
1.
Leah:
> Remember that thing you said earlier in this thread about not wanting to
start a knife fight
I'm happy that you're selling again X200, because this is a confirmation of
the false hopes you've been feeding free software users about the X220.
But you keep telling everyone that
So you can either stay small and not register for VAT, or get big and have to
register for VAT - and charge more to your EU customers - or lower your
price. Tough call.
Minifree is much larger than Technoethical, and has existed for longer. We
get many sales, so I have to be very efficient
> In that case then yes your 430 EUR figure makes sense.
Thanks for admitting in the end. I'm pretty sure that the customer that has
repeated your statement "half price" is from EU and doesn't own a
VAT-registered business. Like most customers from EU complaining about
Minifree on this
So hey, tiberiu
Remember that thing you said earlier in this thread about not wanting to
start a knife fight between Minifree and Technoethical?
I'm just curious if you remember saying that. Pro-tip: if you don't want me
to speculate about your business practises, then please stop trying
Tiberiu and loldier,
It may come of interest to you that said customer in that thread actually
replied to my email. I'm sending them a replacement keyboard, with
installation instructions.
> Bank transfer is a perfectly safe method of paying someone over the
internet.
No, it's not safe. Bank transfers are not common to pay for goods over the
Internet. To make a bank transfer, one really needs to trust the merchant. A
customer can't file a chargeback with bank transfer. And
Leah:
> Despite some statements being said here by one or two people
That's an understatement. There are at least ten on this forum, and the ones
that haven't spoken up are many more. Take for example another recent
discussion:
I apologize that you had this bad experience. I just want to clear a few
things up, though:
Bank transfer is a perfectly safe method of paying someone over the internet.
I've been doing it with my customers for years.
I'm not going to tell you that you are wrong, or that your experience is
Yes, I very well may do so. If you're interested in the T400, we also sell
that at Minifree in addition to the X200.
Despite some statements being said here by one or two people, Minifree
actually does take strides to provide the best possible customer services.
This includes reasonably fast shipping, and high product quality.
Of course, it's also true that critics are the loudest voices, and I accept
It's a misconception that Technoethical products cost double than from other
companies.
Tacking into account only the total paid for the X200 with the specs
mentioned on the product pages:
€430 EUR = Minifree X200 w/ 8GB RAM
€478 EUR = Technoethical X200 (8GB RAM)
The difference is for
No, the Lenovo G505S doesn't have the PSP
The Lenovo G505S is almost at a point where Libreboot could support it. I
don't remember what work still needs doing to it but it's close. This uses
AMD hardware
Hi, I've just replied to the email you sent. As stated in the email, you just
have a faulty keyboard.
I sent you an email, offering to send a keyboard replacement, with
instructions for how to install it. Let's continue the discussion via email
Hi,
If you're having trouble with your laptop, you can send your system back for
replacement/repair if it's still under warranty. The warranty is 2 years.
I will ship you a replacement laptop when requested. This sounds like a
hardware issue to me.
In this case, if you rely on the system
It says this on the website, but I do sometimes make exceptions. The last
time I met someone was about 3 months ago.
> This is nice. Can you by any chance get to Kansas City?
Sent you a PM. Let me know there the details.
Tiberiu
For booting GNU+Linux, you don't even need BIOS/UEFI. GRUB boots the linux
kernel directly.
For other OS e.g. BSD, ReactOS(not yet supported) you would need BIOS
services. The free "SeaBIOS" payload provides this. The next version of
Libreboot will have a substantially improved "SeaGRUB"
Actually, the latest version of Libreboot, which comes preinstalled on these
laptops, uses a custom payload called "SeaGRUB". It's SeaBIOS, configured to
immediately load GRUB after 0s, without allowing any other option, where both
SeaBIOS and GRUB are in the flash chip alongside
Hi Tiberiu :)
We share a mutual interest, and yes, Technoethical is also an excellent
alternative to Minifree if you are looking for libreboot laptops.
Just FYI, all current Minifree orders are on time to arrive to their
recipients before christmas. I also confirm that Minifree, like
I don't want to start an argument, especially since we at Technoethical
believe that there is enough room for everyone in the world to sell laptops
with fully free BIOS and fully free OS. And we have other priorities, like
not disappointing our customers that are waiting to get their orders
Not yet, unfortunately. I've had to delay that work, hence the X200
re-launch. The 15 or so people who pre-ordered the X220 have all been
notified as of today, asking what they would like to do regarding their
order.
, send us your
info via email: name, address, telephone number etc and what you would like
to purchase. We will send you a custom invoice. This level of secrecy
partially mitigates the risk.
Then before shipping, I would make such modifications to the laptop and send
you pictures, encrypted
The security implications of having a laptop shipped to you is identical,
whether you purchase from that company or Minifree. They are both the same
product.
It was decided that Trisquel would be re-introduced, so that Minifree's
systems could remain in compliance with FSF Respects Your Freedom criteria.
My usual answer would be no, since this isn't technically endorsed by the
FSF. However, since Uruk is closely based on Trisquel, then I think it would
be OK.
In the textbox on the checkout page when you order, mention that you would
like Uruk instead of Trisquel, and I will see what I can
It uses the GNU GRUB bootloader, which is part of Libreboot. It's configured
in such a way as to provide boot options for various media types including
USB, and the menu is configurable.
Hi everyone :)
Libreboot is a fully free BIOS/UEFI replacement (boot firmware) for starting
a bootloader and loading your operating system. Minifree is offering a
version of the ThinkPad X200 with Libreboot and Trisquel GNU+Linux
preinstalled right out of the box.
It's at a reduced price
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I believe Riseup uses Roundcube as webmail. Last time I checked, both the
backend PHP and the client JavaScript code of Roundcube are free software. If
Riseup does any bug fixing or feature implementation, I hope they're doing it
upstream or they publish their modified version of Roundcube.
I haven't used their service and I wasn't aware of those issues, but I'm glad
that you have made them known. Maybe they deserve a different thread, instead
of an off-topic section of this thread.
Tiberiu
You need to solder the wires on the BIOS chip pins (which is found between
the RAM slots and the full-sized mPCIe slot, under the black protection
foil). These pins are very tiny and the most fragile, especially the CS (Chip
Select pin), and the GND (Ground) pin is particularly difficult to
The T400s requires soldering, and you need more experience with it than
soldering on the X200s and the X200T chips. The T400, T500 and X200 don't
require soldering (clips are already available).
To enable communication that has been broken by Gmail, you can "mark as not
spam" my reply to
You have asked us and we have already answered your question 6 hours ago. In
short: "[We've been very busy] but we can start to write it. If you want to
help, it could be useful to send us your questions that you hope the guide
will answer. We can then use your questions to figure out what
Hello,
I'll always stand up for myself and my projects, instead of playing the
victim or answering with vague corporate statements. The people who actually
interact with Technoethical know that we take criticism seriously and we try
to fix in a timely manner any raised issue that is in our
You sure have a broken compass of what is lawful and ethical, since you
slander and consider that bringing you to justice is gangster behaviour.
/tct
You avoid talking about the fact that your accusations are false, posing as
victim of a supposed freedom of speech violation. The same tactic is also
used by political incorrect people, who are very vocal about their freedom of
(hate) speech. You will be hold accountable for your false
Despite your efforts to spread false accusations about Technoethical, people
are doing business with Technoethical and they recommend us, hence the many
positive reviews, the most recent of which published by the FSF in this
month's newsletter:
Since you brought this again, I'll state again the facts:
My comments were being hidden by people like you who were abusing the voting
system in an attempt to silence me in a thread announcing that Technoethical
has made available for purchase the most modern laptop with free BIOS. My
Purism can't deliver the phone they promised in their crowdfunding campaign
and it's sad to see yet another misleading campaign. The discussion seems to
go off-topic, but it's important to correct some statements:
@MagicBanana
1. The laptop/desktop computers ThinkPenguin sells ship with
You might be able to do it with 1 cpu/core for the VM, though there are
reports that guest OS will crash with this setup.
With both cores, you'll get kernel panics on the host OS.
There may be a few T400 laptops with CPUs that work well with hardware
virtualization, but they are rare.
Public service announcement:
Go here for fully free phone OS:
https://www.replicant.us/
Replicant has FSF endorsement.
And go here for a (much cheaper) phone that is actually in fact libre (more
libre than purism's phone):
https://tehnoetic.com/tet-n2
Hello everyone,
The more you debate about Purism products, the more publicity they get.
There is likely no difference between this phone and the generic products you
get from samsung, sony, xiaomi, etc, aside from the operating system. Even
Replicant phones still have non-free boot firmware
I was searching through my stock today, and I uncovered several high-capacity
batteries, some of them are 100% or near that. The next batch of orders for
the next week or so from 25 August 2017 will have near-new batteries, about
4-5 hour battery life. (usually I try to ship as high capacity
IMO 6750 USD is better spent on the TALOS II than a new car.
Used cars are about 1000 USD on average. I got mine for 650 GBP (well, i
bought it for my girlfriend for that amount, and she drives it)
Thank you for your review :)
The original TALOS was 18,000 for the workstation I believe. So that 6750 is
pretty low by comparison
Hi,
installing a distro can be done using this guide:
https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_boot_installer.html
modifying the boot menu can be done using this guide:
https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_cbfs.html
I saw "ubuntu" mentioned. obviously you should use trisquel, since it's a
Also, sometimes the default "load operating system" menuentry doesn't
correctly auto-detect your configuration, from the partitioning and so on on
the drive. if you come across that issue, see the first link I gave, which
shows you how to modify grub.cfg. You can use that to add a custom
Hi
You can email me and ask this too, but I will answer here.
Yes, most of them have bluetooth by default, and it works perfectly. I use it
myself, sometimes.
~Leah
by the way, if your X200 is from libiquity, make sure to update to the latest
upstream libreboot from libreboot.org. someone emailed me recently and they
had a very old version of libreboot on their laptop from that company, which
reset their clock to 1970 on newer linux kernels; newer
good old chroot
i always forget about that
that's probably a better/easier way
Setting /etc/shadow and removing the x in /etc/passwd removes the password
entirely, so after that it should be possible to even boot normally (even
without init=/bin/bash), log in without a password, and then you can just set
another password.
This also works on encrypted systems, in the
Hi, are you the same person who emailed me earlier? Regardless, someone
emailed me today with the exact same question about how to recover access to
their user account.
I'll paste what I emailed to that person:
If it isn't encrypted, then you could do this:
boot a live USB distro (e.g.
Hi Джордж,
As I understand it, you bought a T400 online and flashed it yourself, but now
you've lost it due to damage from an electrical thunder storm.
I'm currently working on adding sandybridge support to libreboot (ThinkPad
X220) but it'll be a while before I have that ready. (and it's
Hi Marco,
I apologize for the hardship that I caused you.
If there's anything that I can do to help rectify your situation, I'm quite
happy to do whatever I can. Please don't hesitate to ask.
~Leah
Hi Marco,
I apologize for the bad service that you received back then. Your laptop
shipment was delayed back then, due to inefficient business practises at
Minifree, which were:
1) I was the only person doing anything. I had no employees. And too many
customers.
2) Inefficient workflows;
Thanks again :)
As a special courtesy: yes.
I'm feeling generous today. Email me your original order details, and confirm
your current shipping details. I'll ship you a T400, and then you can return
your X200 at your leisure.
Excellent. If you have any questions about Libreboot, you can ask on
#libreboot IRC in freenode
Hi Thomas,
See: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-review-0#comment-118195
This issue no longer exists with Minifree laptops.
~Leah
Hi,
See my reply at
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-review-0#comment-118195
Hi J.B. Nicholson-Owens,
My parents smoke, and Minifree used to operate from my parents house. I moved
out in April 2016 and since then, Minifree has operated from a smoke-free
home :)
If someone who works for me is a smoker, I make them go outside into my back
garden when they want to
Minifree ships the P8400 by default, since that is most common. A few of them
have higher speed CPUs though, so if you're lucky you'd get one that's a
little bit faster.
@Archetyp: Regarding the MS sticker on the base of your laptop: this is
actually an error. I typically remove those, or cross it out in marker pen
and write something cute on top of it.
Thank you for your review.
Technoethical D16 is also RYF-certified by FSF:
http://www.fsf.org/news/fifteen-new-devices-from-technoethical-now-fsf-certified-to-respect-your-freedom
Following your example, we've reduced the price for our D16 board with
Libreboot, which now sells at 900 EUR with 1x CPU and 1x RAM. More
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