Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 8

@aral @otfrom I don't think that these are not clearly communicated on the website. I think you're just salty about KaiOS

@aral @otfrom it doesn't allow the _software_ to remain free but it does ensure the files remain free when modified.

I mean, it does the job it's designed for, that doesn't make it bad

@aral @otfrom practical advice for choosing a copyleft license is shown here:

https://writefreesoftware.org/learn/participate/choose-a-license/

People still trying to incorrectly mansplain software licenses to me

My brothers and sisters, I know how they work

If you would like to learn more about how free software licenses work, I built a whole website explaining it:

https://writefreesoftware.org

Please take a look!

This invite is good for 20 uses until tomorrow: https://discourse.writefreesoftware.org/invites/eBqfs1MSLk

Okay -- it's almost ready. Who wants to get invited to help populate some discussions?

@mntmn gotcha. This is something that really irks me about basically all FOSS hardware vendors. I really think it ought to *ship* with this pre-configured by default; as in it should be considered a blocker for the production run.

@mntmn oh, and while I have your attention, please ship laptops with u-Boot on an SPI flash or similar pre-configured with UEFI support (or edk2)

@mntmn I don't know much about the differences between these chips so I'll go with "whichever one has the most upstream mainline Linux support"

I hate to be That Guy but I'd probably love the MNT Reform if it weren't for the keyboard

I wonder what the power utilization is like

@mntmn hm, I guess I'm curious... but I'm not in the market for a new laptop or keyboard so it's unlikely to convert me anyway; I don't want you to go out of your way

@mntmn sway :3

@mntmn indie hardware has been mainly limited as a function of how good easily available ARM processors are (and kernel support lagging behind bullshit vendor kernels)

@mntmn the main thing holding back indie hardware for the past N years is x86-64 being withheld from the hobby/low-volume market imho

Perhaps the onset of this was encouraged by the chip shortage, but nevertheless. The bottleneck to higher fidelity is labor, not hardware, and we're well into the diminishing returns

Hot take: video games have peaked in terms of resource requirements and there's not much need to keep making better and better GPUs etc. Hardware has been more than enough for several years now

Good morning to everyone except for Midov

@mntmn would be happy to talk about this with you in detail but not right now -- shoot me an email?

Why Prusa is floundering, and how you can avoid their fate

https://drewdevault.com/2023/12/26/2023-12-26-Prusa-is-floundering.html