@sally @newt

>Your opinion.

Fair.

>Yes, that's why chads from FSFSA made Linux-libre.

A deblobbed kernel means nothing to me, because every x86 CPU since the Pentiums has microcode burned into the die itself that isn't even source-available. A trustworthy proprietary-free software means nothing when you have untrusted hardware that can do whatever it wants.

That's what the FSF hardware certification program completely misses. If the firmware (and microcode) is unchangeable, it is defined as compatible with the certification. However if it is loadable on-the-fly, it suddenly isn't compatible. If the certification was written correctly, both of these scenarios would be incompatible, because both can run exactly the same firmware, while one is not compatible and the other one is compatible with some mental gymnastics. It would mean that almost no hardware would receive the certification, but also it would mean that the occasional customer wouldn't be deceived by it. The world where the FSF labels something as "respects your privacy" while it clearly might not simply would not exist.

In the real world, it means to me, that there's almost no point in trying to go fully free, when the result cannot be fully trusted. Yes, it has some advantages, but it is only a hobby project to me. I simply cannot do my work on hardware that can even run Linux-libre. And that's why I prefer the more pragmatic approach of using free software as much as possible, while also running proprietary software when I need to.

>This kind of rhetoric you bring here reminds me of the tranny jannies and other OSImps average speech to justify degeneracy, by the way, the people you complained about a moment ago.

It sort of makes sense, because I hate both extremes of the spectrum. On one side you have the annoying trannies licensing everything under MIT and actively sabotaging the quality of fundamentally needed software with their politics. And on the other side you have the annoying GNU maximalist that annoys everyone around them that isn't part of their group.

The former mostly affects people that already are in the Linux ecosystem by making it worse for everybody and making it harder to recommend to newcomers. And the latter acts as a repelent for others that might want to switch to Linux, but are effectively gatekept or repelled away by a minority screaming at others that using Librebooted ThinkPads is the only right way.