Richard @ ricdeh @lemmy.world

19M from Germany [https://www.fedichat.org/](https://www.fedichat.org/)

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The problem is that this approach requires the goodwill of those in power, and because the power imbalance is very much tilted towards large capitalist mega-corporations and billionaires, no courts will ultimately have an interest in changing laws. This is the reason why civil disobedience is required, as a tool in order to increase the pressure on those in charge to change the law. Do you think that the owning class of the Ancien Regime would ever have made such concessions in 1789 as they were forced to? The French Revolution is the ultimate example for the fact that sometimes, when the power imbalance is too great and the institutions are rigged against the people, riots and armed conflict are the only option to preserve, regain or establish freedom.

Well there's always the option to buy something like a Samsung Galaxy Book3 360. It's a laptop that comes with an AMOLED touchscreen, a 360° hinge and the S-Pen. You can put a GNU/Linux distribution on it and enjoy free/libre and open-source software with a tablet-like user experience while keeping your integrated keyboard and touchpad (it's the best of both worlds!), and the S-Pen is amazing and works on Linux because it uses standardised Wacom protocols. They're not inexpensive though.

I understand what you're going for, but they have made a really amazing and powerful contribution with the OpenSPARC project, which supplies the hardware description files and EXTENSIVE documentation of the micro architecture, component layout, etc. of probably the two most powerful free/libre and open-source multi-core processors ever assembled, the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2. And this was released under the GNU General Public License. This is almost unbelievable, as hardware is still almost completely unfree. Sure, there are some PCBs and microcontrollers like those distributed by Arduino or Raspberry Pi, but the chip source for the processors on all of these is mostly proprietary. Regarding microprocessors, there are VERY FEW actual hardware designs available that are free/libre and open-source, and OpenSPARC is one of them. Granted, the UltraSPARC T1 and UltraSPARC T2 were released to the public when Sun Microsystems was still an independent company and before they were acquired by Oracle, but Oracle is still keeping the webpages of the OpenSPARC project up! For hardware designers that aspire to make free/libre and open-source hardware, this is an invaluable resource!

Yep, I have 6 GNU/Linux distributions running concurrently on a variety of drives and devices and Debian is one of my favourites :)

Luckily, openSUSE still has the default single click setting, and I am very thankful for that! (just my opinion, I would not have a problem with simply changing the setting should the default become different, don't get me wrong, I just like it better this way)

Now let's don't bring that fictional character historically used as the ultimate tool of oppression by feudal rulers and governments and now by conservatives into the matter :)

Why though? It should increase the life expectancy of your mice and touchpads because it results in fewer clicks and the mechanical parts thereby don't wear out so much.

try Arch :)

Very good statement, although I disagree with the claim that "nerds" were naive 25 years ago, as the GNU Project and the free software movement exist since the 80s already, meaning that at least some intelligent and tech literate people already realised the destructive potential of closed-source and unfree software!

Yeah and you can easily put custom ROMs on these, much more easily than on Samsung phones, though it is quite possible for older models of those (I am running Android 12 on my Samsung Galaxy Note II that is by now 11 years old lol)

Yep, there are many legitimate use-cases for electronics in cars, but THIS is definitely not one of them!

Man, all that expensive blue they have to paint when someone tries to access Twitter... That's drivin' up the cost

How would that make free software and open hardware advocates be left behind? If anything, we would be the only members of society still knowing how things work and being able to figure things out and innovate. All other people would simply be slaves of whatever corporation would happen to own the important tech patents.

It's called GNU/Linux! :P

Well it's not so much their fault but the one of their parents and society around them. That's why you can find Gen Z'ers very capable of programming and handling a GNU/Linux distribution, while others couldn't even be bothered with simple operating system concepts exposed to them on their iPhones.

That at the end there is a very wholesome story :)

Oh wow, in my retirement (which is many decades away), I hope I can spend as much time with computers as possible!

Thank you sir, you nailed it!

Actually, display resolution refers to exactly what you call pixel density, and NOT the pixel dimensions. This error is so common that the term resolution has practically been redefined outside of the professional (science and engineering) space, but technically, display resolution and pixel density are the same thing.

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