/tech/ - Technology

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>Qubes
>Open source with proprietary blobs,[1][2]
Lmao.
>Arch
Is ported for proprietary GPU firmwares, uses Broadcom, NVIDIA for kernel drivers which is proprietary, intel-ucode and -uco for installing microcode updates, which is proprietary, and GRUB may also support booting nonfree firmware too. Figures, since Arch users are the biggest cocksuckers in the programming sphere.
>Manjaro
Same as above.

Contrast this with Gentoo, which doesn't use any wifi firmwares (like Broadcom) or drivers by default, and it's 100% free and open source.

F-droid's recent scandal shilling brave on fedi basically nailed Android's coffin shut.
https://floss.social/@fdroidorg/114778416552731285
Only reason I have to use it right now is Arknights, and that's a Windows gambit of "I use a program that needs it," so I wouldn't count that as a redeeming quality of the OS, but instead a reason to invest in proton-style compatibility layer options to break up that network effect.

NixOS has an ARM support, I'd love to try making a phone with that.

>>30467
>scandal
<look inside
<its the usual "vote with your wallet" hysterics
lol i was told the fediverse wasnt the same garbage as bsky

>>30468
The F-droid devs are not representative of fedi's general culture, you can look in the replies and see people reject F-droid's "vote with your wallet" nonsense.

>>30469
im talking about the replies lmfao

>>30467
Fuck that. While there is no smartphone OS that supports RISC-V/PPC, you could instead just run Phosh or Sway over Gentoo OS on one of those BeagleV single-board RISC-V computers with mainline Linux support that would be ideal for a use like this, add a touchscreen to it and some SIP softphone apps for VoIP kinda like picrel (it's a Gentoo Pinephone since GNU supports Phosh/Sway, but not Plasma Mobile though), although that wouldn't be a true smartphone experience, however. As for PPC, you could use a similar mobile UI as this, but on laptops, it wouldn't work as a touchscreen.

>>30470
>f-droid: check out this chud malware chromeslop
>replies: here's why this is chud malware chromeslop and some more secure options, also holy fuck the main package manager of android aside from Gplay has been compromised and will need a hard fork, which will be a burden on an already struggling ecosystem (which OP went into.)
>somehow gets "voting with wallets" out of this
I hate that critique of "vote with your wallet" rhetoric has turned into a thought terminating cliche. There's no "wallets" here, this is purely a tech issue.

>>30465
Although to be fair about Arch, they at least have a PowerPC port (but it's unofficial). They also have Libre kernels (like linux-libre) from the AUR so that you can use for Arch Linux that can manually remove linix-firmware, intel-ucode/amd-ucode and proproetary drivers (like NVIDIA), but these are unofficial also. Qubes and Manjaro I would just avoid completely. Aside from GNU + linux-libre, you could also use Parabola GNU/Linux,which is Arch-based, Guix system, Trisquel, or maybe Hyperbola, which is also Arch-based (although their repo is no longer active).

>>30467
>proton-style compatibility layer
anyone knows what the current options are? years ago i installed some proprietary emulator on my dad's laptop, which the apps he used detected eventually, then android x86 as a qemu guest, but that refused to boot entirely. recently i also wanted to test if i could find an android app to get my family on irc, so i tried to launch waydroid in weston-x11 and it crashed for hard to pin down reasons (it wasn't dbus, probably).

>>30465
>Contrast this with Gentoo, which doesn't use any wifi firmwares (like Broadcom) or drivers by default, and it's 100% free and open source.
but you don't get wifi, nor the benefits that comes when the drivers are inevitable RE'd. broadcom's encryption was recently broken, if I remember correctly
>b-but I can use a USB WiFi dongle! that respects muh freedom!
https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html

>>30478
forgot the picture

>>30472
>has been compromised and will need a hard fork
What? They pointed out that Brave set up an F-Droid compatible repository, it has nothing to do with F-Droid itself. I think posting it was misguided but they are not shilling for it, it's more like
> hey someone else is using the software we wrote, cool, too bad their software is shit

Also
> There's no "wallets" here, this is purely a tech issue.
If you need a "hard fork" that's a social issue and the "wallet" here is your participation feeding the network effect.

>>30471
> there is no smartphone OS that supports [architectures that have no smartphones]
What a scandal! Google made an attempt at supporting RISC-V before realising the insanity in it.