marcodiego

Hmmm... How about adding it to the Free Software Foundation's "respects your freedom" hardware list?

Looks like the project is dead.

Maybe this can achieve RYF certification.

What I really would love: modern (continously built) modern (less than 10 years old tech) devices ryf-cetified.

The author blames interest in critical metals for the action.

Now, consider: Brazil has the second biggest known rare earth reserves in the World (second only to China). As a Brazilian, this scares me a bit.

The simple fact that they have to deny it, meaning such an absurd is widely considered plausible, is already a sign of their reputation.

I thought that was fixed after MGLRU.

Please check the relates wikipedia article. Updated to reflect recent secure attention key in the linux world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_attention_key

Just one exemple. Around 2009 I met Thiago Vignatti. His master thesis was about improving X so It was easy to use in a multi-seat setup (2 monitors/keyboard/mouse) so a single computer could bé simultaneously used by two people.

He worked for Nokia, Intel and eventually his own startup related to VR.

During his time as a Google summer of code student, his project was tô paralelize X code so it could run in multiple threads, making better use of modern hardware with many cores. His project failed. The reason: X code was so bad that paralelizing and making It thread-safe requires so many locks that it ran slower! It was a better idea to start from scratch. I remember, at the time, taking a look at the source code and asking him what was a X86 emulator built-in in X source code. His answers was that that was required to run video BIOS on non-x86 computer, namely Sun workstations. That was the level of legacy code in X.

This is just an illustration of many problema X had. Vignatti was one of the X devs that migrated tô wayland development. Many other core X deva did the same. People saying that was is fixable, that it can be improved or what else... These people may be right, but I trust X core developers that these people when the subject is X développement.

AFAIK, using linux instead if windows fixes the problem.

If you're using android, you can easily share files over local network (or using your phone as hotspot) with this app: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.MarcosDiez.shareviahttp/

If you're not close, telegram fork allow easy sharing of files too.

Most of what are called "dumbphones" allowed easy file sharing over bluetooth. Even the cheapest ones.

Around 2008 I saw two girls, not too versed in technology, share a mp3 song over bluetooth. At the time I thought that if technology finally arrived at the point where "normal people" could be able to do things that required lots of technical knowledge just a few years ago then we were very close to a future where technology could be a giant enabler of powers to everyone.

I am really ashamed by how wrong I was and how WE allowed things to became so artificially limited.