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   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:13:11 JST 翠星石
   Freedom haters really can't help but to crawl out of the woodwork and start trying to troll huh?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:58:33 JST 翠星石

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     • dragestil
     @dragestil General ridiculous trolling comments like ones from pernia@cum.salon
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     dragestil (dragestil@hostux.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 13:58:34 JST dragestil

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     @Suiseiseki
     Context?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 14:14:16 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantom Palladium
     @hazlin I've thought about it, but that market seems to be pretty well cornered in the freedom-enjoying parts of the world and there seems to be a lack of interest from where I am (I haven't manged to find and meet a fellow freedom enjoyer in my current search, only "open source" supporters).
     
     Additionally, shipping is very expensive to/from where I am (even in the same country/"state") and it's difficult to source suitable hardware (old thinkpads are not available locally and shipping from the US is ridiculous).
     
     Despite how Replicant devices are more available (considering that quite a few of those old phones models are floating around), unfortunately nobody local will buy them, as the GSM bands are shut down.
     
     I could probably offer KGPE-D16 based systems to order as I have worked out how to make decent custom G34 coolers now, but I'm not sure if anyone will ever order.
     
     Possibly I could offer a service where someone pays x Monero to have me port GNUboot to another GM45 laptop, but before considering that, I'll have to finish at least one port, so I know I can actually do it.
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     Phantom Palladium (hazlin@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 14:14:17 JST Phantom Palladium

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     @Suiseiseki have you ever considered selling fully configured freedom devices?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 15:18:33 JST 翠星石

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     • Phantom Palladium
     @hazlin >would be the sheer security in knowing it wasn't setup with backdoors. (especially for a cell phone like device or tablet)
     Unfortunately, every single cell phone at the moment is filled with backdoors, as all mobile chipsets either contain malicious circuits (very old ones) or malicious software (I'm fairly certain that's pretty much mandated by current mobile protocol designs).
     
     For example, the Replicant project found a backdoor on one phones modem that allowed accessing the files on the device - thankfully they were able to disable it.
     
     >(of course, I think source code is a poor design document... it would be better than nothing.)
     Properly structured and commented source code serves very well as a design document, too bad most source code isn't.
     
     >are people selling consulting time. Maybe you can't easily get the parts, but you don't have to, in order to make a profit (or for people to benefit from your knowledge).
     It didn't come to me that maybe there's potential profit to be made when it comes to consulting as to which hardware is suitable, as freedom enjoyers are generally happy to offer that sort of knowledge out of goodwill.
     
     Now that I think about it, I am quite good at configuring free software and also getting it to compile and I've made a trivial profit so far consulting people in doing so, but I'm not sure as to the non-trivial profitability of such, considering that most local businesses seem to all be heavily scammed by proprietary software or SaaSS companies and don't realize that free software exists (I've talked to someone who had never heard of GNU, despite being employed by a business that did most of their computation with GNU/Linux VMs (except hosted on someone else's computer)).
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     Phantom Palladium (hazlin@amala.schwartzwelt.xyz)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 15:18:34 JST Phantom Palladium

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     @Suiseiseki I've heard international shipping is criminally expensive for some reason.
     
     For me the most appealing part of a freedom device (source code included) would be the sheer security in knowing it wasn't setup with backdoors. (especially for a cell phone like device or tablet)
     
     Secondarily to that, in a... non-internet paradigm, you could still build on and improve what you have. (of course, I think source code is a poor design document... it would be better than nothing.)
     
     
     What I see in other fields, are people selling consulting time. Maybe you can't easily get the parts, but you don't have to, in order to make a profit (or for people to benefit from your knowledge).
     
     Anyway, this is what a wondered while reading your posts xD Putting together a true freedom device is, a bit beyond me, so I am just running a linux distro I can handle. But I cringe every time I have to do a system update. What code is being install? I have no idea.
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     Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 15:50:51 JST Gnarley Boot

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     • Phantom Palladium
     @Suiseiseki @hazlin
     
     I wanna agrue with the extreme Linux guy, sounds fun!
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 15:50:51 JST 翠星石

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     • Gnarley Boot
     @gnarley_boot I'm an extreme GNU guy, where's the extreme Linux guy?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 16:05:15 JST 翠星石

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     • Gnarley Boot
     @gnarley_boot BusyBox is really only comparable to GNU coreutils + a few more GNU utils, as there is much, much more GNU software available; https://www.gnu.org/software/
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     Gnarley Boot (gnarley_boot@norwoodzero.net)'s status on Friday, 05-Apr-2024 16:05:16 JST Gnarley Boot

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     @Suiseiseki
     
     Honestly GNU is so much better that busybox, I have to use rsync or a GUI file manager on my Pinephone, because Alpine's cp is just hot garbage.