sneak @sneak@sneak.berlin

Improved EC inside! Starting with release 1.9 of the EC firmware we made a couple of changes for the Librem 14. Here is a detailed post by Purism CTO, Nicole Faerber.

https://puri.sm/posts/unleashing-the-librem-14?mtm_campaign=promo&mtm_source=organic&mtm_medium=librem_social&mtm_content=ls-unleashing-librem14

It wasn't until Nicole started writing about her work on Librem EC that I realized just how much the embedded controller is responsible for on modern computers, and therefore how important it is that it runs open firmware.

https://social.librem.one/@purism/108606603747059114

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People talking about F-Zero X on the Nintendo 64

​​ <- me, who played a lot of orginal F-Zero on the SNES

@sneak @mike I’m guessing the android equivalent is avoidable at least?

The sad part is all of those things except cellular vpn blocking and degrading is mostly anti-fraud and marketing.

Things that exist in Europe in just as great of numbers as the US:

* Pro-lifers
* Religious people
* People who hate trans people
* People who think queer people should just be quiet
* People who really believe giving up freedom can make them safer
* CCTV (actually, more)
* Doctors who gatekeep the fuck out of everything
* Medical insurance (yes, really!)
* Shitty infrastructure (though their trains are better, a lot of public transit is busses now...)
* Poor people

That's all there is to it.

"popular myth is that people who are Very Computer have computers that work. nothing could be further from the truth. the Very Computer are capable of generating much more novel and fascinating ways to make computers not fucking work and exercise this capability wantonly"