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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@mboelen Mijn Surfans F20 met Rockbox werkt ook gewoon hoor. Ik denk al een jaar of drie ondertussen. In die periode is er één update geweest die ik heb geïnstalleerd door een zip uit te pakken op de root van een SD-kaart. (Alles staat in /.rockbox/) Ik kan me niet herinneren dat ik ooit een crash heb gezien eigenlijk.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 7mo ago

I've been renovating an Antec Nine Hundred, which is the PC case I had twenty years ago. At some point I sold mine, and I've always regretted that.

Then recently I found a seller with that same PC case in very good condition, who turned out to be a really nice guy. He said he always wanted it to end up with a serious buyer.

So I completely stripped it, cleaned it out and reassembled it. Then I made a nice coreboot-powered machine out of it.

This really brings me back to my high school days..

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online The graphical UI that handles all the user input and display output being proprietary is a big deal. Being a small player is no reason to defend keeping your code proprietary. None of the true mobile Linux OSes do that either. There is never an excuse to keep your code proprietary and there's no such thing as open sourcing "too early". It should be FOSS from the first commit. At the end of the day Sailfish OS is more closed and proprietary than AOSP is. That's sad, but it's true.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online "Not 100% proprietary" is still not FOSS. Sorry. I don't think anyone is claiming it's "completely closed source" either. But at the time of writing it simply has an unacceptable end user license for many people, including me. Regarding promises: talk is cheap, show us the code. Once there are no proprietary bits left and there is no more EULA to accept, I'll most probably change my stance on Sailfish OS.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@mboelen In het geval van Rockbox is het GPLv2(+), voor het *hele* OS, niet alleen de kernel. (En in het geval van Rockbox is de kernel overigens niet Linux.) https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/08/14/rockbox-is-mainly-gpl-v2-or-later/ Het maakt mij van ieder apparaat dat ik heb absoluut wel uit wat voor software erop draait en of ik de broncode ervoor kan krijgen en zelf builds zou kunnen doen als ik het wil. Daarom heb ik ook geen mobiele telefoon, tv, geen vaatwasser, een wasmachine met twee draaiknoppen, enzovoort.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@fedor Hiervoor had ik een SanDisk Sansa Clip+ die ook ongeveer zo lang is meegegaan denk ik. Totdat de accu echt versleten was, alles verlijmd zat, kapot brak toen ik het probeerde te openen, enzovoort. @mboelen

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@voorstad Overigens, alle paniek terzijde, ik kan uit ervaring vertellen dat je prima kunt leven zonder DigiD. Het enige dat je daarvoor nodig hebt, is een balpen. Niet dat je daarmee heel veel privacy wint, want ja, de overheid slaat nog steeds al die gegevens op op systemen die niet tot nauwelijks te auditen zijn. Dat is wat mij betreft ook een groter probleem dan die frontend waarmee burgers inloggen, want die is lang niet zo "cruciaal" als men denkt. (Tenzij je geen balpen hebt dan.)

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@mboelen Ja, dus een speler met Rockbox-support bedoel ik.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@mboelen Geen Rockbox?

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 8mo ago

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@nixCraft Adults don't need and shouldn't have smartphones either.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 5mo ago

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@mboelen Vanwege de licentie.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 7mo ago

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@Bo@floss.social Signal is geen oplossing hiervoor. Matrix en XMPP zijn dat wel. Signal is nog altijd gecentraliseerd, Amerikaans, vereist een telefoonnummer, is afhankelijk van Android of iOS, is niet interoperabel met andere chatdiensten, en ga zo maar door. Als we dan toch iedereen adviseren om over te stappen naar iets "beters", adviseer dan in ieder geval iets dat echt goed is, en niet bijna alle problemen die Whatsapp heeft effectief heeft gekopieerd.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online Most people around me don't use mobile phones either, and definitely not smartphones, but I'm guessing LineageOS, GrapheneOS, /e/OS, etc. are examples of AOSP-derived OSes that are not proprietary by itself. Of course all of the bootloaders, firmware, device drivers, etc. of the phones it runs on are proprietary, but I doubt that's any different with the (Sony?) devices Sailfish OS runs on. And in addition to that, the GUI is also proprietary, which is not the case with AOSP.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online I'd have to agree to legal terms and conditions I both personally don't accept and that go against my company's policies in order to try these things out, so that's what makes it rather complicated. The situation with Sailfish OS is currently not that different from a random Android device or iPhone: I don't agree with the legal terms and conditions, so I can't use it. As long as Sailfish OS comes with a EULA with license restrictions (point 3) it's not Free Software or Open Source.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online We use Ivy Bridge era laptops and desktops running coreboot with the GRUB payload as the boot firmware, with the Intel ME stripped down to the BUP partition. On top of that we run Debian with only the main repository (also not non-free-firmware). For our routers it's all OpenWrt, primarily on Turris Omnia routers and old ath79 access points (so no firmware blobs there). We don't use physical phones at all; only SIP with softphones. And I'm not sure why we'd need TVs at the office.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online They're the last generation without Boot Guard, where coreboot has native raminit code, and where the ME firmware can be almost completely overwritten with 0xff. With all newer x86_64 hardware at least one of those points is no longer the case. I'd have to say that compared to ARM SoCs that are comparatively free/open, even the much more recent ones, Ivy Bridge is still *much* faster. A desktop with an i7-3770, for instance, can be used for almost anything, even today.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online I don't necessarily care about the FSF endorsing things or not. Debian's contrib and non-free repositories are optional, and they are not considered to be an official part of Debian. The addition of non-free-firmware to installation media has been a relatively recent decision (those packages were always part of non-free before), and even then the repository still has to be manually enabled. We don't enable it on our systems because we don't need any of those packages on our hardware.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online Oh for many more years. Even on my Lenovo X230 I can do almost all of my work without any issues. And yes, nearly all of the parts can still be bought new. There's lots of factories in China selling them. If this really becomes unworkable in the future, I hope by then there will be RISC-V implementations that are similarly open / low on blobs. Of course there already are ARM SoCs now that come close, like the Rockchip SoCs PINE64 uses. But they're not faster than Intel Ivy Bridge.

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Kevin Keijzer @kevin@social.interlunium.nl

· 10mo ago

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@Linux@linuxrocks.online Everything is manufactured in China, so what can you do? We no longer have the knowledge or capacity to do so here in Europe sadly. And what we do; well, we develop, host, support and maintain Free and open source software in the broadest sense of the word. So mainly SSH, vim and git. Interlunium focuses specifically on people and companies who want systems and infrastructure to be as FOSS as possible, so helping others acquire a similar setup as our own is basically our core business.

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