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by timonovici 9y ago
We're a long way until free hardware design are a thing, for a more immediate solution, try this: If it's processing power you need, I guess the ASUS KGPE-D16 with Libreboot would to the trick. As a laptop - X200, X200T, T400, T40
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by timonovici 9y ago
Couldn't they have proposed a neutral party that would store and manage all the books? Just like the Books Rights Registry was going to handle most of the money. I suppose that Google didn't expect all that backlash. And, now that
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by timonovici 9y ago
While I rarely looked at the code behind a browser (mostly webkit, to debug some weird stuff with capybara-webkit), it is highly uncomfortable to me to use a non-free browser... Does it track my behavior, do they sell that information - I d
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by timonovici 10y ago
It's a bit nuanced, but I guess you're right. There's the librecore thing - but AFAIK they didn't reach out to coop the other developers, they didn't publish their own builds, and the inertia was lost. What could be
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by timonovici 10y ago
While the present may look grim, I keep my fingers crossed for that lowRISC processor - they should be out this year, optimistically. On the other hand, X200 is good enough for my laptop needs, and while I don't have one yet, an ASUS K
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by timonovici 10y ago
hehe, 0 A.D. is a really polished game by comparison. This stuff barely works.
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by timonovici 10y ago
Asus Chromebook C100 Flip, but with a wifi dongle - if you want something new. If something refurbished is okay, go for a X200; they are pretty good machines. Here's the best part - a Chromebook, without the proprietary Mali drivers, i
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by timonovici 10y ago
There were actually enough pissed off core members to pull off a fork - what was missing was a leader. We'll see how all this ends up - but given Leah track record - the whole "leaving the GNU project", the allegations, her a
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by timonovici 10y ago
They did - librecore; but not much work was done on it. Libreboot is a build system more than anything else - and to be honest, that jungle of bash scripts - I'd rather see it rewriten from scratch, rather than forked. To answer your q
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by timonovici 10y ago
Of course they do - you'd think that they would just lag behind, while Intel is implementing it's malware, and selling it to corporations? It's called AMD PSP
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by timonovici 10y ago
There's a clone of StarCraft as well, but as far as I know it doesn't have feature parity with the original game; http://stargus.stratagus.com/
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by timonovici 10y ago
Take sample processors, uncap them, x-ray them, compare the designed circuitry with the x-rayed one. That would be a way.
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by timonovici 10y ago
1. The motherboad has a ARC chip, that loads a firmware included in the flash chip. That ARC chip is supposedly inside the PCH (Platform Controller Hub, a north bridge on steroids) - it's efectively in the silicon, you can't remov
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by timonovici 10y ago
Management of "corporate" computers. Installing Windows on hundreds of machines at once, remotely wiping stolend laptops with corporate secrets. But the cancer has spread to all computers, regardless of domain of activity.
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by timonovici 10y ago
I'm a software engineer myself - but I can't even contribute to projects such as lowRISC - is way beyond my abilities. Right now I'm learning to program microcontrollers, and I want to learn about FPGA's as the next step
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by timonovici 10y ago
The issue is not widely known, silicon is very costly to manufacture, and most people frankly don't care, as long that spying is unobtrusive (and hell it is so). Also, most people already are living with the thought that their computer
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by timonovici 10y ago
I need images, tabs, tabgroups. The developer tools are nice to have. And I'm just used to it. It sits just below 500M of RAM, with about a hundred tabs. I can deal with that.
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by timonovici 10y ago
GPU is quite the silver bullet, IMHO. It's a chip specifically designed for graphics, it's a Graphical Processing Unit. You can't expect the performance of a general purpose unit to be even anywhere close. There are cases whe
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by timonovici 10y ago
I currently use Firefox with JS disabled, for casual browsing, and Min for anything with video or JS https://minbrowser.github.io/min/ - finally, after years, I can use a system with less than 8G of RAM. This browser i
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by timonovici 10y ago
Replicant got rid of all the binary blobs (for the main OS, that is), is not just aiming. The effects are of course that you can't use wifi, unless you're using a USB dongle. Not only that, but Replicant is only ported to devices
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by timonovici 10y ago
Putting polical corectness aside, it's important to have as a varied crowd as possible using your software, to figure out what's still missing, where you still fall short. I saw that happening time and time again - something I did
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by timonovici 10y ago
It's not that performance it's not a priority, it's just that it you can achieve it later by optimizations. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil" said once a wise man (was it Dijkstra?); Anyway, GIMP is
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by timonovici 10y ago
There's one artist that uses FLOSS to draw and make a living out of it, David Revoy. He's using Krita as his main painting tool, but: "Gcolor2 is a colorpicker, Inkscape my favorite vector editor, Gimp for manipulating images
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by timonovici 10y ago
GEGL supports acceleration via OpenCL, so it's unfair to claim they haven't thought of performance at all. And AFAIK most plugins are already ported to GEGL, and the core seems to be done. I do agree that it took a lot of time, bu
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by timonovici 10y ago
The only thing I can truly complain is the slow speed at which the versions are being released - but then again - the program never crashed on me - which speaks of the high quality of the code behind it - and quality takes time. I think th
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by timonovici 10y ago
http://wiki.gimp.org/wiki/Roadmap I don't see the port to GTK3 as being such high priority. It's not even on the roadmap to 2.10; The roadmap seem sane to me. I don't think the program was intented speci
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by timonovici 10y ago
Cool. I just went with the $8 tier. Go go GIMP!
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by timonovici 10y ago
I just picked the $8 tier :) I advice you do the same :)
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by timonovici 10y ago
GIMP had some very serious progress lately (v 2.8) . I found myself using the Cage tool a lot, for example, and the new brush size selector is quite nice. As for the 8 bit stuff - you do know that they are transitioning to babl and GEGL, ri
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by timonovici 10y ago
I have heard about Pippin before, and he and Mitch (another well known GIMP developer) confirmed on IRC that the campaign is legit. The campaign is also listed here http://pippin.gimp.org/ - in the header.

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