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Of course you should, pal! You should not buy any proprietary shite to stop investing into even more invasive proprietary antiuseful technologies. But you use t
by eimrine 24d ago
Of course you should, pal! You should not buy any proprietary shite to stop investing into even more invasive proprietary antiuseful technologies. But you use to not do that, so we both are going to experience suffering. Thank you for being the bad actor for me.
- braiamp 24d agoThis comment implies that we have options... we do not have options. Hell, there are places where such options are actually outlawed!
- bji9jhff 24d agoWhich options are outlawed and where?
- braiamp 24d agoJust look at anything that require certification and prohibit modification, PCI endpoints, FIPS, fuel pumps, aviation, medical software, gambling machines... most of those are outlawed because the law made it prohibitively expensive or cumbersome for someone to make an alternative even if the implementation is known
- fsflover 22d agoDespite all these, GNU/Linux phones exist and can be daily drivers for technical people. And you can download their schematics, too. Sent from my Librem 5.
- apatheticonion 22d agoI am on that team and REALLY want it to be the case - but GNU/LInux devices are usually a significantly worse hardware experience than their walled garden cousins. For example, there is literally no laptop on Earth as nice as the MacBook Pro. Extremely long battery life, insane CPU & GPU performance, unmatched trackpad - but it runs MacOS. Unless you're a professional video editor, the laptop is largely relegated to being a thin client for a Linux machine you SSH into (or spawn a non hardware accelerated VM and demolish performance / power). How long would it take Apple to develop Linux drivers (even as binary blobs like nvidia)? Probably a couple of weekends. Why don't they? Because walled garden. The MacBook is lucky in that it's a high profile device so we see projects like Asahi working at it - but again, without good documentation and despite the incredible progress, the Asahi team have spent years and created an alternative for older Apple hardware that still isn't daily drivable (not throwing shade at the project, it's incredible and I am dying to use Linux on my MacBook). But what about devices with less enthusiastic communities? Pixel 8? Samsung TV? Asus Router? Fitbit Air? D-Link portable 5g modem? My smart blinds? These devices have no drivers, locked bootloaders, and no community to spend years reverse engineering hardware (that will be obsolete by the time OSS drivers are developed). I want to see my high end consumer hardware running OSS and until regulators step in to force the "right to repair software" - I don't see that happening and it breaks my heart.
- fsflover 22d agoEverything you said is true, which is why supporting alternatives that are open by design is essential. Even if they are have less powerful hardware.
- dewey 24d agoDon't blame the user for a fault of the market and regulation. In the real world you'll always only ever see the duopoly of Android / iOS for phones for example. This can be government apps, parking apps, apps for your utilities etc. so it's not like there's an easy choice to opt-out of that. It's not much different for laptops (Will still have some non-free blob in them for some driver), TVs, kitchen appliances.
- eimrine 22d agoWhy not to blame the "real world" inhabitants which have chosen to be my enemies? I blame ones only because I can not eliminate them now. I consider their worldview as being not deeper than a pig puddle, because their life is just pulling the strap. Are there any other ways to demonstrate their emptyness to some external observers? There is no escape from duopoly if you need banks for 24/7 - get rid of that need now or the slippery slope of the technofeudalist slavery will suck you all even deeper into never wanted outcomes.