Just because no one else has said, Adam has been involved in EFF for a long time. EEF Podcast episode with him in it:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/podcast-episode-making-hope-adam-savage

Which delights me as he’s more mainstream and so wakes people up to things like the Right To Repair movement.

But super important and not done enough! Disproving something can save humanity such time.

I’m glad that had a happy ending and sorry that happen. Autolock is so dangerous.

As I said, “if this no other option”. And to be honest, that was once, for a few weeks before the new KiCad hit Debian repos. And only because hardware team wouldn’t wait to switch, so to open stuff, I needed it too.

I’ve been on Debian Testing for my own desktops for about 15 years now. Sometimes as a Frankendebian mixing in SID/unstable. Sometimes mainly unstable, but mostly just Testing.

It rarely breaks, but when it does, it’s a learning opportunity. Stable for servers and other people’s desktops. Maybe with backports. Flatpacks if this no other option.

You don’t get 100% solid and 100% new. Ever. With anything.

Busybox is used in the initramfs normally. It’s the shell used by any scripts in that early stage, as well as the fallback shell environment.

Google is not really much better than MS. It still leaves you under the yoke of big tech. “Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss”.

You spelt monopoly wrong.

You can pay to have less ad, but you’re still also paying with your data. Bet pretty soon it will be pay and have ads, or pay more again. They have a captive market. They can extract and extract.

I feel bad buying things DRM’ed, so I very rarely do, and not for myself. I don’t want to fund that. Feels much better funding DRM free work.

You can of course write drivers for them, but then it’s you own abstraction not the standard Linux abstraction. (You can hack something up with IIO for that stuff, but it’s not pretty). There is CUSE (part of FUSE) you can do some character devices with.

Existing drivers in Python are messy to use if you our not developer in Python.

The nice thing about in kernel is:

• it’s done for you already
• the interface is standard and will work with anything that uses that class of device
• it’s langauge agnostic.

The Linux kernel does hardware abstraction. It’s not a microkernel. There is limited support for proper userspace drivers.

If you doing some application specific app, that will only work with those chips, use do it in userspace. But to make a normal system for normal use, you want things in kernel like normal.

Only a fraction of it is RTCs. What is in the Pi overlays folder is from everything. Not even all the DT I2C RTCs. There is loads of ADCs, DACs, IO extenders, all sorts.

It’s really annoying you can’t do DT on x86 Linux. It’s a bit of a gap in the platform. It would make Linux ARM based developer’s lives easier.

GPIOs are the easy bit. You can get those no issue on x86. It’s I2C and SPI that are the issue with x86. You can get the buses sure, but all the device drivers are Device Tree based. You can’t just throw in Device Tree overlays on x86.

Regulations can work. Latest is EU’s USB-C phone/laptop/tablet standardization. It’s great! No more crazy range of different laptop power supplies.

Some stuff is pretty much as I want already. Henry vacuum cleaners for example. Tough as nails and easy to get parts and help for. Framework laptop and fair phone aim to be good for repair and upgradablity.

France repairablity index can be rolled out further field.

Things used to be more repairable and last longer. We can reverse the trend down. No need to despair.

I think the EU will be first to role it out at and scale. Like USB-C device power standardization.

Seriously, no one is going to mention “Right To Repair”? If this was law, and companies had to divulge how there stuff worked and was assembled, as well as sell parts, things would last longer. If every trade zone had a repairablity index, competition would make things last longer still.

I’m not giving you what I regard as my instances because I think that is combative. I don’t want combat, that’s the whole thing. I’m not really pro or anti this defederation, but I can see the problem and I’m interested in how it plays out. In it becomes a place of combat rather than debate, I’m simply leave. If there is no news or anyone to talk to, I will also leave.

If there is coordinated defederation, maybe it’ll give mods of the troll infested instances pause for thought, and make them clean house. Or not, and Lemmy bumbles along without ever hitting mainstream, until something else comes along. Maybe central instances set the tone of the whole thing, and here this is a mortal wound.

It’s an interesting “natural experiment”.

See that’s not my experience of the problem. They aren’t being polite. They are out right hostile. Staying calm, providing trusted source references, and remaining polite, just seams to enrage they further. They seam to want to have a slagging match, which is of no interest to me as I’m not 12.

So ‘Tankies’ are the ones fighting Nazis? There doesn’t seam much between the two to be honest.

It’s not really communism. It’s all about freedom to compete. The bazaar is a market after all.

Note: Reference to The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Worth at least knowing of in regard to open source history.