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munchlax
1y ago
> You can buy ... for $599 Not sure why you'd think any random nerd has that kind of money. And Walmart isn't exactly around the corner for most parts of the world.
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1y ago
I can build myself a new amd64 box for just under €200. Under €100 with used parts. Some older Dell and Lenovo laptops even work with coreboot. An Airbook sets me back €1000, enough to buy a used car, and AFAICT is much more difficult to ge
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1y ago
It's easy to piss on the individual. Ask yourself how come free software is everywhere, with licenses for various stuff neatly tucked away out of sight unless you're trying to find it, not to mention all the giant clusters of Linu
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1y ago
It's the security of having happier shareholders, making more money. That's still security, albeit an entirely different threat model.
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1y ago
I'm sorry for your loss if the Internet ever turns out not to be as resiliant as we thought.
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munchlax
1y ago
Funny that they called it VBS. That's not something I'd easily associate with a step forward in security.
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1y ago
Have you tried building AOSP from available sources? Binaries everywhere. Tried to rebuild some of them with the available sources and noped the f out because that breaks the build so bad it's ridiculous.
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1y ago
It still exists but without any official iso or installer. If that's all there's to it, you can still use debootstrap, compile a kernel, and point the root parameter to your shiny new install. If the official i386 arch was built w