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  Sydney 7 years ago

  Sweet! Keep us posted on what it is like! :-D

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  @Dirk The research that goes into CPU architecture is really expensive, so licensing it out to OEMs is a way Intel and AMD can get their money back. (+profit of course)
  
  Unfortunately, backdooring is politicized, so even if we manage to create consumer grade open hardware, there's a chance that it won't be accepted (in law or in increased surveillance).
  
  I always feel I have to repeat myself: There's no technological solution to a political problem.

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  Joe 7 years ago

  @dirk I think it's because the IP is 100% of a hardware companies business. They do not like parting with it.

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  Dirk 7 years ago

  But why is "open hardware" always so deep below the standards? 🙁

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  Joe 7 years ago

  @dirk I agree they aren't great. But hopefully this is a sign of things to come for ARM based, open laptops.

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  Dirk 7 years ago

  Those specs ... This thing gets outnumbered in RAM and CPU even by mediocre smartphones 😂

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  Ant 7 years ago

  boxes ? never heard of that disto before

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  @Ant it's what I prefer at home ;) boxes vm is just a fronted for libvirt/kvm, no?

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  Ant 7 years ago

  Aye, i know
  
  use i3 instead ;)

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  @Ant desktop environment. It's like fluxbox etc.

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  Ant 7 years ago

  openbox as in the WM ?

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  Joe 7 years ago

  Ahhh okay! I didn't get the reference 🙃 ... @ant it looks pretty nice for dev work. Think I use OpenBox as not to load to heavy :)

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  @Joe "It's not dead. It's pining. Pining for the fjords."

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  Ant 7 years ago

  ooooh
  

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  Joe 7 years ago

  @sigg3?? I'm not sure what you mean.

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  Nuke 7 years ago

  I didnt know it existed. Added to the wish list with the fairphone.

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  Sigg3 7 years ago

  It looks like it's dead.

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