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   Ash (ash@awoo.fyi)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 12:11:22 JST Ash

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   • Kris Nóva
   • egyp7
   Asahi Linux is promoting a solution for shiny hardware that doesn't really work on a budget either. I don't think that's a good example. We should be promoting solutions for non-shiny hardware, open source hardware solutions like say PinePhone and the open source systems it supports like Plasma Mobile. These need to grow into its own instad of supporting proprietary shiny hardware platforms from OEMs that have a continious history of shafting its users.
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     Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 12:11:23 JST Kris Nóva

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     • egyp7

     @egypt

     So check out @marcan's work on Asahi Linux.

     In my opinion this is the most progressive and most exciting distribution of Linux available today. This project is in another league compared to the other Linux Operating Systems.

     However it doesn't have a keynote in front of thousands of people, or an in-person sponsor showcase with knife throwing and a magician on site.

     We need to support indie tech, such as Asahi Linux.

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     egyp7 (egypt@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 12:11:24 JST egyp7

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     • Kris Nóva

     @nova Can you give an example of what you mean?

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     Kris Nóva (nova@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 31-Jan-2023 12:11:25 JST Kris Nóva

     One of the most effective things we can start doing as a community is to begin legitimizing and normalizing independent and low/no-budget technology.

     We are so used to being spoon-fed shiny marketing gimmicks as our primary way of validating technology. If we can break the paradigm that it needs to be "shiny" to be "effective" we can do anything.