data collection yes, but there's also a need to crowdfund hardware support this affects oss wifi router OSes, linux on laptops + chromebooks, cell phones, gadg

data collection yes, but there's also a need to crowdfund hardware support this affects oss wifi router OSes, linux on laptops + chromebooks, cell phones, gadgetbridge for fitness trackers, probably many iot devices in the chromebook linux space gallium seems to have lost momentum (the most recent device with full support is from 2018, or 2017 from a well known manufacturer). if you want to run linux on a pixelbook there are stale forks of stale repos, but like 'alsa doesn't work yet' and support doesn't get merged to the kernel committers are always complaining 'we don't have test hardware for this device' (and also they're uncompensated) we should as a community find a way to fund this work. can be hardware donations, paying competent volunteers, and eventually working with hardware vendors directly to answer questions / do signed firmware builds if necessary