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   DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 13:40:11 JST DulceKennedy
   maybe i should buy SSDs
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 13:44:55 JST 翠星石

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     @ElDeadKennedy Maybe you shouldn't.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 13:57:30 JST 翠星石

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     @ElDeadKennedy The do run proprietary software, although as long as the manufacturer doesn't offer updates and it isn't malicious the main problem is that the software usually fails after a few years and then you have a dead drive that you can't read, even though the NAND chips themselves are fine.
     
     Unless you have a need for more storage drives, there isn't much reason to buy them at the current high price point.
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 13:57:31 JST DulceKennedy

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     @Suiseiseki why? proprietary firmware?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 14:18:41 JST 翠星石

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     @ElDeadKennedy >blobless >librebooted-libre
     So you use an old, free version of libreboot?
     
     Why wouldn't you use GNUboot instead?
     
     
     Jellyfin is proprietary software.
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 14:18:42 JST DulceKennedy

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     @Suiseiseki i need more storage for my free-as-in-freedom™ blobless™ librebooted-libre™ 100%-not-affected™ linux-libre™ jellyfin server
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     DulceKennedy (eldeadkennedy@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 14:24:31 JST DulceKennedy

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     @Suiseiseki jellyfin is proprietary software?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 14:24:31 JST 翠星石

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     @ElDeadKennedy Yes, it's programmed in C# (try to bootstrap mono without microsoft's proprietary software - good luck), there are no license headers in the source and there is no statement stating which files the GPLv2-only or the GPLv2-or-later, or even if it applies applies to anything - meaning there is no license and the GPLv2 in root is just to look nice, meaning that it's doubly proprietary software (proprietary software written in a proprietary language).
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 31-Jan-2025 14:27:17 JST 翠星石

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     @ElDeadKennedy Sorry, not bootstrap - compile.
     
     It's not necessarily a problem if you bootstrap with a proprietary compiler once and never again, but the way mono and the .NET framework is designed makes it pretty much impossible to compile any release without using proprietary compilers binaries from microsoft.