lemmeee @ lemmeee @sh.itjust.works

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Valve didn't invent that. It's a slightly modified fork of Wine - software that people have been developing and using for 30 years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton_(software)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wine_(software)

SteamOS is open source with some closed sources component.

So it is not free software. It's proprietary, unethical software that takes away your freedom. Just like Windows, Android, etc.

But most important think you seems not being able to understand is that Valve provide high support to Open source community, which means it wouldn’t be surprising if they decided to drop a open source phone.

By doing what? They only want to lock you in their proprietary platform. Most of heir software is proprietary, their games are proprietary and they restrict users with DRM. It's a terrible company, which abuses their users. If Steam Deck contains proprietary software, why would their phone by anything different?

I think most people complaining about Wayland nowadays are just Nvidia users. I don't have any problems with it on my AMD GPU.

Good point. He makes proprietary software designed to exploit people and everyone should realise that. That's the important issue.

While RMS is a person who loves to argue on semantics; this argument comes from his friend being accused of sexual assault. “Oh my friend was accused of sexual assault… when you think about it what really is sexual assault?” (This is not a direct quote, I’m just making a point.)

I know and he was right. There was no evidence of Minsky assaulting anybody. I don’t think they were friends, though.

I think users of other operating systems might not have such passionate discussions. This is probably a side effect of having freedom.

His pleasure card - the opposite of business card. It's funny that people once tried to use that to accuse him of inappropriate behavior.

But did you know he also likes to engage in rhinophytonecrophilia?

I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants)

Here is the source. Why is nobody talking about this?! /s

He has a funny story about it too: https://stallman.org/articles/texas.html

but his views on sexuality are a bit questionable

I don't know, I agree with many of them. There was one I didn't agree with, but he changed his mind about that.

But what kind of password is that? Seriously, I will never get it. It's easy for anyone around you (and your government) to get and very difficult for you to change.

I disagree and I think people who say that aren't very familiar with what he says on his blog. He spent his whole life fighting for justice and freedom, not just in software. He has many interesting opinions on other topics as well and I agree with many of them. For example, I agree that we should reject the term “sexual assault”, because it’s too vague and can mean almost anything, so instead we should use more precise terms. I'm not saying that he is never wrong, though.

Now if you identify as a Stallman-sexual because you have a toe jam fetish; I’m not going to kink shame you for it.

I think it's sad that someone uploaded a video of him doing something embarrassing just to make fun of him and other people share it. I wish people didn't behave like that.

His mistake was thinking that pedophilia is only harmful when children are forced to do it. Fortunately he changed his mind. But I agree with many of his other opinions like rejecting the term "sexual assault", because it's too vague and can mean almost anything, so more precise terms should be used instead.

People that hate him, criticize him for almost anything. Even for calling someone an "Emacs virgin". And if they can't find anything, they misquote him like they did during the MIT Epstein scandal.

The creator of the Free Software movement and the founder of the GNU project, which lead to the development of GNU/Linux operating system - the OS that this community is about.

By supported you mean he wrote a few posts about it on his blog. Later he talked to some pedophilia victims and they made him realise how harmful it is. What is so impossible about it?

I didn't know there was no RISC-V toolchain for Rust, that's kinda weird!

You’re still limited to either waiting for hours or cross-compiling though since currently the best available RISC-V CPU is quad-core 2.5 GHz (which still looks hella promising, 2 years ago best we had was 1.5 GHz dual-core).

Compiling anything on PinePhone is also painful :D. But I suspect there is probably a lot more ARM packages available in distros and some app developers release ARM builds.

Those energy efficiency comparisons are pretty interesting! x86 is also improving, so I'm curious if there will ever be x86 phones.

The people in the bus are the users of free software projects that depend on proprietary CUDA libraries.

But Debian has security updates and you can set up unattended upgrades.

You are right that some projects are more likely to have vulnerabilities than others. But at least with libre software any expert can look into it, fix it and distribute the patch to others.

I don't have much hope for RISC-V, since most SBCs that use it seem to require a custom Linux kernel, so it's the same problem that we have with ARM. Maybe things will get better at some point, but unfortunately most people don't seem to care. I haven't heard of Redox before. It looks interesting, but it's a shame that it's not under a GPL license.

But right now GrapheneOS even despite proprietary hardware is the best option security-wise

Maybe you are right and Graphene with F-Droid is the most secure option. I don't think it's necessary to have all of its features, since we don't have them on desktop either, but it would be nice to have them on mobile for sure.

unless you’re willing to tinker with hacking together some RISC-V SBC-based device (which might even have better battery life than most smartphones by up to 60%!)

That's crazy! Is RISC-V so much more efficient than ARM?

And forget compiling any Rust code on the currently available RISC-V CPUs

Is that not possible?

AOSP is not proprietary.

I never said that it was.

Also security is not achieved merely by the merit of being libre, see CVEs for sudo, glibc or Apache HTTP server or even the Linux kernel itself.

Being libre is the basic requirement to even being considering something as secure, but it is not enough by itself. I agree.

And when it comes to proprietary firmware updates, in case of x86 one such notable example is the microcode which is pretty important to keep updated for security.

Generally that's what people say, but is it really that simple? A new firmware version might fix some known vulnerability, but its developers might have also introduced a new one on purpose. So a known vulnerability might have been fixed, but you might have gotten a new one that isn't yet known. So I don't know if that's really so much better. Also I assume that the only way to exploit those vulnerabilities is through malware? But if you only run free software, the risk of getting malware is very small.

There seems to be some progress with the call audio issue, so it might get fixed soon. As for WhatsApp you can probably run that with Waydroid (but eventually you should switch to some free software messenger).

I haven't used postmarketOS, but I don't see why it would be any better than Mobian or Manjaro (Manjaro might not be the most stable though). Maybe you are talking about Android phones, in which case you are probably right - other distros might not support those so well. postmarketOS and other distros don't use mainline Linux, so I don't know why you would call them that, though. For me this is the biggest flaw of GNU/Linux phones.

I know that postmarketOS developers contribute a lot in different areas, but so do Mobian developers. I think the kernel we use was initially developed by Megi.