It’s pretty messed up that schools enforce those things onto kids. Chromebooks, while cheap, invade the hell out of your privacy and are extremely restrictive. We should be teaching kids GNU/Linux, not ChromeOS… I honestly feel sorry for the future of free software. Students aren’t taught ethics, freedom, or privacy at ALL. I was in school, (graduated two years ago), and it seemed that every teacher adapted the “you don’t have privacy” motto. Absolutely terrible. Buy the kids a Dell Latitude E6400 and put Libreboot/Trisquel with KDE on it. Let them live and help each other out with issues. It would be super heart warming to see schools adapt something like this instead.

(I understand the convenience issues, but we should start adapting, its crazy that Gen Z barely know anything about computers)

The person was saying they couldn’t access a certain site with Firefox, that’s why I suggested a chromium based browser.

Yes, but Edge comes with a lot more proprietary components added.

I would recommend installing ungoogled-chromium or using another hardened FOSS version of chromium instead.

Why not use chromium or a hardened version of it? Edge is proprietary software.

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May I ask what PC this is? You might be able to flash Libreboot to it and keep the firmware updated/remove Intel Management Engine entirely. Internal flashing is possible on most of these older computers, no special flashing equipment needed, just need to type a few commands in terminal basically.

I think he all wanted was his ear, nothing more! He just wanted to become Lee Harvey Earswald.

Richard Stallman.

He’s not a billionaire, but he sure is a fossrillionaire.

Don’t you need tons of RAM to run LLMs? I thought the newer models needed up to 64GB RAM? Also, what about Stable Diffusion?

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They have the Google Pixel 8 which has a 120Hz refresh rate, if you can afford it.

GrapheneOS for the Google Pixel. I’m using a Google Pixel 4 which was like $120 and super easy to flash. I’m from the US, so I understand if things might be different where you are.

LIBREBOOT! LIBREBOOT! LIBREBOOT!

Well, they’re not wrong. It is ‘open-source’, not Free Software.

I agree, haven’t watched the debate yet, but I myself have mixed views on current America, mostly on mass surviellence (but we can always change that if we all tried hard enough!)

I like Chase Oliver views and I could see him being a better choice than RFK in my opinion. I feel like I could vote for him, even as a right-leaning straight white male! I really don’t like Trump or Biden, and I refuse to give them my vote.

I will definitely come back with photos, I’m getting the Thinkpad on Friday or Saturday :-)

I’m also looking into customizing GRUB to look like this:

Edit: also planning on using this for my DE:

https://github.com/rozniak/xfce-winxp-tc

No, not just open, free it entirely. License the code under a GPL license.

I just fixed it, thank you for the heads up!

There are PCIe x4 cards with dual NVMe slots, and there’s other PCIe cards that have like 4 SATA slots. You can use as much space as you want :)

You can encrypt your /boot partition with Argon2, which allows you to have a fully encrypted disk. You can check the integrity of your kernel at boot via Libreboot GRUB using GPG. Not as much spyware as you get with modern day computers. I know there is still proprietary ECs, microcode, etc. but we should all be trying to minimize proprietary software as much as possible.