3arn0wl @ 3arn0wl @lemmy.world

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I use Tox P2P.

What a remarkable bolt! Can it come and do my place when it's finished?

... so not much has changed in a hundred years then.

HEAR! HEAR!!

RISC-V designs are still 3 or 4 years off the pace, but closing fast.

The leap ought to come when the extensions that were ratified at the end of 2021 are realised... 2025/2026.

It would mean the diminishing of market share of proprietary US software and hardware.

Linux and *BSD run on RISC-V. RISC-V devices will be shipped with an open source OS and apps. Android users won't even notice / care about what chip is inside their tech.

And it puts app lock-in to the test.

• BRICS nations are going RISC-V - for varied reasons - as quickly as they can (and the EU may well follow suit).
• China is a huge producer - if not THE biggest manufacturer - of electronics.

Those two points alone suggest a RISC-V revolution, in BRICS and 3rd-World economies, who like cheaper goods. RISC-V cores have been used in microcontroller roles for a while now, and we're now seeing RISC-V chips being used as primary processors.

Sorry. Can't help you there.

How far down the rabbit hole do you want to go?

RISC-V is open specification for processor design, and some Cpus, like T-Head's C910 are published designs. The Roma laptop uses a SoC based on that, though I don't suppose it's readily available. There's also an SBC - the Lichee Pi 4A, and a tablet from Sipeed... But all these devices are cutting edge, and probably not for the general consumer quite yet.

There's Armbian for x86... https://www.armbian.com/uefi-x86/

Element is also available through a browser. https://app.element.io/#/welcome

If it's 32-bit, your options dwindle somewhat.

Armbian is lightweight, and has an x86 version.

Some while ago, there was a "Masto Blue" generated from Mastodon users fa ourite colours - #40665C

Not common, perhaps, but I like to download Atkinson Hyperlegible.

Which, I guess, shows they have a significant amount of meta data about users. :/

But couldn't that be got around with a vpn or Tor?

"WhatsApp and Signal have both threatened to quit the UK market over this demand."

I'm curious - how would that be done in practice?

And wouldn't it just mean that people would adopt another protocol, like Tox or Matrix, in stead?

https://www.howtogeek.com/348699/how-to-see-what-data-windows-10-is-sending-to-microsoft/