CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@gamingonlinux it costs too much to offer for free, and I'm assuming they're running out of cash

@passwordsarehard4 @nixCraft "protect you"

It won't, and will endanger children instead be design because child abusers define what "protection" means

@thaodan @crazyeddie @merill why should we expect Microsoft to.honor that? We know they won't

@crazyeddie @thaodan @merill yeah, locked bootloaders imply the person who purchased it doesn't get full ownership rights over it

@cstross @trademark @jsl they're running the standard control opposition Playbook by getting elected as a nominally left-wing party and then aliening their voter Base by doing a bunch of unpopular right when stuff, resulting in even farther right party winning the next election. Then they reset the goal posts so that the new center is between the two of them after they pushed it right

@jsl @trademark @cstross the problem is that those 70% allies stab you in the back sometimes. Happens a lot when anarchists cooperate with MLs

@Longplay_Games @merill not by choice

@silhouette @merill people are expected to put this on their personal devices

@agowa338 @merill I'ma have to start carrying around two phones. One for my worksona and one for me

@crazyeddie @thaodan @merill unlocked bootloaders are a moral imperitive. Not to mention all the ewaste created by locked devices not being repurporsable

@merill in other words, devices that the users control, instead of controlled by someone in the Epstein files

@serapath @tubetime @GerardThornley @Amorpheus @catsalad

https://youtu.be/HfSO-LCKmrA I wonder what this guy is making

@serapath @catsalad I've been thinking about this. We should design for bigger mode sizes. If we can manufacture open hardware on the same fans that make power electronics we're pretty much home free. We will have to give up peak performance and power efficiency to do so.

In the meantime, don't throw out any hardware that runs and some of what doesn't. Old corpo laptops were cheap last I checked (double check because of RAM) and probably a good thing to buy by the palletload

@ClickyMcTicker @catsalad @ramonfincken oppression is the point

@duckwhistle @ClickyMcTicker @catsalad @ramonfincken good idea

@catsalad pirate OSes, if you will.

@anubis2814 I can't afford a car right now and boy am I sure glad now lol. Gotta fix up my ebike

@susankayequinn bezos is part of the fascist agenda

@digitalraven

What a mess. They shouldn't be allowed to.buy up the whole global supply of RAM Like that

out of curiosity, what research are you doing?

@not2b @blogdiva the question is, how much human coding is required to make vibe code copyrightable? A single line? Meaningful modification to function? High level architecture with vibe coded boilerplate only?