Nothing special, just wanted to make a post because I’m extremely proud of myself today. Reddit was the only thing holding me back, and I’m happy to say that I’ve just deleted my 8 year old account. I’m now only using open source apps for my android and desktop OS and it feels amazing!
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Nobody tell them about their firmware.
Graphene OS and Debian - trying my best 🥹
perfect is the enemy of good
This isn’t an all-or-nothing thing.
For Windows users, it’s already a good progress to switch to Firefox/VLC/LibreOffice/NextCloud from closed source alternatives.
Dashero is doing great work with coreboot. Several latop vendors sell it preinstalled
Where should I read your source code?
Me reading the title: “Please give me a copy of your DNA so that I may compile you from source.”
OP is an AI bot, so this is possible. Yes.
How do you figure that?
cool, now send a link to your source code so we can fork you
Bro’s about to get upgraded, no more walking into a room and going “wait, why’d I walk into this room again”
Whaat?! FORK YOOUUU!!
I’d like to submit a PR
But what about your DNA? Have you reversed your specific genome yet?
principal skinner looking down at the camera with eyes narrowed
Cool, it’s a continual process, but a good one!
I was 100% open source for a while until i needed to buy tickets for the public transport in my area.
You can’t use cash? In my country its illegal for them not to sell services in cash.
Is android open source?
They USS GrapheneOS which is based on AOSP (Android Open Source Project) both are FOSS
Lol of course, yes.
What about the CPU and RAM?
Hand stitched
This is interesting actually and a good point. But surely they don’t pose a big security or privacy breach risk? I’m fairly uneducated in this field.
We’re just poking for a bit of fun. The Free and Open Source rabbit hole goes very deep. For example, Intel and AMD processors have code on them that isn’t free meaning the purists will not use them unmodified.
Everyone has a threshold where privacy and freedom interfere with convenience, just stick with the level you’re comfortable with.
No joke, I briefly looked into whether it would be possible to fabricate my own PCBs. I’m quite handy with soldering and MIGHT be okay placing my chips.
Turns out it is possible, but not at the board density we enjoy. The time and cost of materials also make it unreasonable.
The board isn’t the issue, the CPU and RAM have firmware running on them.
Oh, then OP will most likely need to replace their hardware with something like Framework, as I can’t see x86-64 becoming open.
Baby steps are okay too.
Oh definately, I was just in a pedantic mood (:
I was going to press you on the firmware for the CPU, but I was unaware that CPU microcode exists and is built to live in the cache.
