Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by bittercynic on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:55PM
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For those who care about having OSS powered desktop/laptop, I think the situation isn't as bad as it's sometimes made out to be. Both Debian and Arch have worked very well for me, and been my primary OS for years.
It is frustrating that we still can't really get full control of the hardware, but at least from the kernel on up we can have pretty complete control of software.
Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by wvenable on Friday February 16, 2018 @02:52PM
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All the open source software I use on daily basis auto-updates.
Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by carapace on Friday February 16, 2018 @09:06PM
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> “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Couldn't find anything specific in re: auto-updates though...
I though he was a bit extreme at the time, but over time I've come to appreciate his position. Having software be open and modifiable is really quite an amazing thing. those open building blocks lets us do amazing things with software quite easily.
Its time for an open source desktop os and software to go mainstream. We realize that apple is not reliable making developer grade notebooks and their unix underpinnings show that it is possible. Then onto phones. I feel open source software will keep the hardware from being too weird