PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]

Anarchist, autistic, engineer, and Certified Professional Life-Regretter. I mosty comment bricks of text with footnotes, so don’t be alarmed if you get one.

You posted something really worrying, are you okay?

No, but I’m not at risk of self-harm. I’m just waiting on the good times now.

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Cake day: July 9th, 2023
  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    8 months ago

    There will be people cheating the hell out of this, because let’s face it. What people need is not a free computer. They need food and money.

    While I’m not personally at all against giving out free computers … that’s not really what is meant here.

    I think we’re talking about free as in “speech”, not necessarily “beer”. In the case of hardware, this would mean that the design is “open” to be viewed, copied, or derived from. For example, if you develop a processor using the ARM architecture, you have to pay ARM royalties.

    Stable income is a sure way road to decrease in crinimal activity and a more safe society. THEN you can consider providing free stuff, when there’s no reason to abuse it.

    I mean as long as the capitalists are the ones footing the bill I got no problem scamming them out of free computers or whatever. They scammed you and everyone you know out of your environment, your freedom, your privacy, your future, so fuck’em. Whatever you take from them is in better hands in yours than theirs.

    More generally, I don’t agree that we need to wait for stable incomes to do other things.

  • PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S [he/him]@lemmy.sdf.orgtoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•*Permanently Deleted*English
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    8 months ago

    I mean we have RISC-V and Linux (and other FOSS OS’s). IMO the big challenge is to get designers to actually choose these options over the proprietary options that they already know, and then to demonstrate to consumers that free systems can work for them.

    Also, obligatory “America bad” segment:

    *Insert various fellatory quotes pushing American exceptionalism with respect to creating a free and open-source computer

    By its very design, the United States stands against freedom and equality. If they ever claim to want to bring those things to software (or any other field of endeavor), it should be treated as an obvious lie. For this reason, the American government and the capitalists they serve are the last people on Earth I want involved in the design of my future computer, free or otherwise.