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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 22:59:17 JST 翠星石

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   @mischievoustomato >that makes hw that can work without propietary blobs?
   For GPUs, ironically nvidia and intel.
   
   Intel Integrated cards up to 2008 have a free VBIOS and a fully free driver.
   
   Nvidia GPUs up to the 700 series have free peripheral software and a fully free driver with acceptable (and improving) re-clocking thanks to nouveau.
   
   There isn't yet a free VBIOS, but you can get GNUboot to simply not execute the proprietary Option EEPROM in the VBIOS and then nouveau in Linux-libre can later read the data out of the Option EEPROM without executing it - which means proprietary software doesn't get executed on your CPU (I am unsure if the nvidia VBIOS actually contains proprietary software other than the Option EEPROM and some BIOS callbacks that don't get executed - ideally the VBIOS would just be data tables).
   
   
   The free panfrost driver supports many Mali GPUs used in Aarch64 SoC's, although the OS images for most SBC's are chock full of proprietary software; https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
   
   https://h-node.org/ is a good site to look for freedom-respecting hardware, note that some reports are erroneous.
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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 23:12:10 JST 翠星石

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   @sun https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 02:45:03 JST 翠星石

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   @jihadjimmy Further details here; https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
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   Terminal Autism (terminalautism@social.076.ne.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 20-Sep-2022 06:45:48 JST Terminal Autism

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   @ryo @Misato Are they fully, free, though? Serious question, I want to know. I get my information from the FSF, and they have approved like, three single-board computer platforms, but that's it, and all of them have flaws. They have not approved the Pine laptops, though, as far as I'm aware, but laptops are lame anyway. So are single-board computers, though. They are a huge compromise. Just like laptops, or maybe even more so, they are the computing equivalent of living in a pod.
   https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/single-board-computers
   
   The third one seems to be flawless other than the company violating the GPL. Also, who cares about USB-C video when you have a dedicated video port? And I don't know what a "wake-on-word" is, but it sounds like spyware, so it not working may be more of a feature.
   
   This one seems to use the first chip:
   https://pine64.com/product/rockpro64-4gb-single-board-computer/
   I lived on 4 GB of RAM a few years ago, but it's definitely not adequate. Web browsers being to blame, mostly. Not going to be a problem when the internet is dead, but if you're offline, then you can just use whatever, it doesn't really matter. Anyway, you can have SATA on it, so it's already better than average. I may actually buy one eventually if I confirm for sure that it can be fully free. If they release a model with 8 GB of RAM, though, then it will be pretty damn solid.
   
   All I want is a desktop, though. Real computers. Where are the free desktops? This is the cheapest one:
   https://www.raptorcs.com/content/BK1SD1/intro.html
   
   5000 dollars, and it's what the FSF plans to use to replace the old workstations that they have been using. I will more than likely never have the money to justify buying that when I can just use my ThinkPad and spend that more wisely. So, that's why I keep inhaling that hopium, hoping someone is going to release an efficient free desktop in a year or two.