You can also take a look at twitter where only a negligible amount of people migrated to free alternatives, most of the people who wanted to migrate did so to another mainstream platform owned by a for-profit company, and most people didn’t actually care to migrate no matter what the platform owners did.

HP uses fwupd on some models and 100k is cheaper than hiring a single engineer for in house contributions.

Apple has a bigger market cap than amd, intel, and tsmc combined lol.

Yet another? Are there really so many LPEVs in linux?

The fact that you don’t want an easy way to install apps outside of the initial deployment but (presumably) want an easy way to update your pre-existing apps would probably give you some trouble because they usually come from the same source. There are ways to blocklist or whitelist packages on some package managers but the specific details depends on the package manager.

No, and for that matter Linux can’t survive without for profit corporation labor either.

I don’t know how you can convince yourself that the Powers That Be is so powerful that it can just ram age verification through, but weak enough to be stopped in its tracks right afterwards by this lesser implementation by this one state. I guess you must imagine it working like the bear circle in spongebob lol.

Bethesda, Square Enix, and Capcom usually do that, but it’s not a rule.

The added bonus is not having to deal with Sony, or other people, trying to upstream stuff that doesn’t make sense outside of the PS environment and would have questionable value to others.

GPL doesn’t force people to merge back to upstream, and BSD doesn’t have any special way to stop people from trying to upstream. The only difference is that Sony’s PS6 OS fork would have been open source if it were bound by the GPL, which would be an objective benefit.

I agree, and in that same vein, Linux really should be AGPL as well.

You can trust hardware without trusting the vendor through auditing or analysis. In that case if you are aware of the hardware’s behavior then the additional blob updates are simply added uncertainty. Similarly if you are already aware of the security implications of the old blob and have appropriate countermeasures for it, then the new blob is also simply added uncertainty. The article notes this.

It doesn’t seem to me that the parent post by littleomid was here to help.

for some reason

To make it easier to download and use I imagine.

If your big issue is just getting back into mainstream support, you can try looking for a 7600, since RDNA 3 is just one generation removed from the latest. You’ll have to undervolt or limit power and you’ll be stuck with 8GB on that budget but you’ll probably receive software support for slightly longer than the RDNA 2 6600/6700.

What is your current card? The RX 6600 is comfortably within your requirements but has just 8GB of RAM, and the RX 6700 is just at the edge or slightly outside of your budget with 10GB of ram, which you could probably make work if you find a good deal and undervolt it. On Nvidia’s side there’s the 3050 8GB and 3060 12GB.

16. You own an AMD GPU and want to use your fancy HDMI 2.1 monitor / TV

I have seen enough devices get kneecapped by the manufacturer after release to know that the FSF’s viewpoint is the correct one.

If you don’t make a conscious decision to disallow free software it becomes too easy to normalize its inclusion.

even prior to bookworm it wasn’t endorsed due to having the toggle in the first place, which I find super weird.

They probably predicted (correctly) that this attitude would eventually lead to the decision that they ultimately made in 2022.

You can use letters and symbols in windows hello pins.

You can use windows hello without biometrics.