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I have nothing to hide, but I once read that we still prefer to put vacuous letters in envelopes than on postcards. I'm currently using a Raspberry Pi for my N
by mPReDiToR 4y ago
I have nothing to hide, but I once read that we still prefer to put vacuous letters in envelopes than on postcards.
I'm currently using a Raspberry Pi for my NextCloud because it's not Intel (IME), but I'm changing to a Radxa because it's more transparent.
I (will) use a PinePhone with Biktorjg's (more) open firmware as my daily driver because the completely opaque hardware on my GrapheneOS Pixel and LineageOS OP 7T are OBVIOUSLY full of access points for state (or clever) actors.
Not having anything to hide doesn't mean that I don't want privacy. Intel IME and the like are incompatible with that utopia.
Please, feel free to comment on my choice of home server, the Rock 5B isn't shipping yet, there's time to change my mind.
- mw888 4y agoI can’t say for sure but I vaguely recall reading complaints that some ARM CPUs are similarly flawed.
- matrix12 4y agoRaspberry PIs closed binary blobs are far from documented. At least the Pine stuff is fully documented, and has no requirement for a binary blob to operate.
- mPReDiToR 4y agoThe only part of the PinePhone that's immutable is the baseband on the modem. The OS in the chip has been rewritten, but to open the baseband removes the certification and recertifying an open version is outside the scope of the project. We're stuck with just that blob, but the modem is cut off from the main CPU and DMA by being connected over USB.