Tibor to Programmer [email protected]English • 11 months agoToday i installed arch linux for the first timepawb.socialimagemessage-square345fedilinkarrow-up11.2Karrow-down1112cross-posted to: [email protected][email protected]
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish16•edit-211 months ago The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them). Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework edit: Purism apparently is not trustworthy as a company
minus-squareHobovisionlinkfedilink10•11 months agoWhat’s the point if they still have AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc. chips on them?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink9•11 months agoYou mean things like the Intel Management Engine? I think they are partially disabled, like in librebooted ThinkPads.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoPinePhone Pro for the mobile side. The schematics are available. I quite like mine, especially with the keyboard case. It’s basically a pocket laptop.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•11 months agoThis is only for laptops by the way. System76 desktop BIOSes are still closed source. It’s such a shame that there’s no FOSS BIOS for desktop PCs, hopefully AMD OpenSIL changes that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•11 months agoWerent they gonna make them foss? Heard it some time ago so who knows
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink1•11 months agoI’m not sure they can make them FOSS because they don’t make their desktop motherboards AFAIK. They’re much harder to make than laptop ones.
Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework
edit: Purism apparently is not trustworthy as a company
What’s the point if they still have AMD, Intel, Nvidia, Qualcomm, etc. chips on them?
You mean things like the Intel Management Engine? I think they are partially disabled, like in librebooted ThinkPads.
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PinePhone Pro for the mobile side. The schematics are available. I quite like mine, especially with the keyboard case. It’s basically a pocket laptop.
This is only for laptops by the way. System76 desktop BIOSes are still closed source. It’s such a shame that there’s no FOSS BIOS for desktop PCs, hopefully AMD OpenSIL changes that.
Werent they gonna make them foss? Heard it some time ago so who knows
I’m not sure they can make them FOSS because they don’t make their desktop motherboards AFAIK. They’re much harder to make than laptop ones.