Subj : Re: Can't get into headle
To   : LAWRENCE D'OLIVEIRO
From : Mike Powell
Date : Mon Jan 27 2025 09:30:00

> More than that, it keeps alive some of the original spirit that has gone
> from the Microsoft/Apple market: early PCs were hackable to some extent by
> users (remember when you got BIOS listings in the Technical Manuals?), but
> current proprietary machines effectively have a big sign across them
> saying "No User-Serviceable Parts Inside" (and this applies to both
> hardware and software).

> Conversely, the Linux-running Raspberry Pi invites you to open it up and
> mess around, both in terms of hardware and software. And this is
> deliberate, by design.

This is some of the reason I have been drawn to sbc computing over the past
few years.  Adding things to them is not quite like the old "open the case
and slide a new card in" procedure, but the ability to tinker is still
certainly there.


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