Someone in the last thread said that the Mediatek SOC makes ROM support unlikely.

Capitalize, folks.

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

It’s like a second, separate clipboard. You “copy” text to this one by simply selecting it, then “paste” from it by middle-clicking.

I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

You dirty root preserver.

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they ship with closed source software/packages/drivers/firmware/kernel blobs etc.most

Yes.

linux distros are the same trap that windows locks you into.

Oh, come on.

Panominism.

(edit: I made this up, probably.)

I don’t disagree with you at all, but if I still had PC gamer friends and they were playing stuff like this, i might have a tough choice to make… even if it is

a god damned video game

Now every object is stacked in an extremely tall tower, but at least they’re alphabetized.

CD-ROM was turning

We didn’t start the fire

/dev/null

You can Ctrl-see yourself out.

I’m not saying it’s the answer to all of this, but read up on the philosophical differences between the Free Software and Open Source movements.

Rindy Rōnin

Oh, wow.

The replies they got reflect very well on the Ubuntu MATE community. Their followup post, further down thread, was even more, uh…

Hey, that’s the combination on my luggage!

But seriously, thanks for sharing. Looks like there’s some good stuff in there to learn from.