Post AYd0eC2PG0leeZWS3c by cute_stuff@blahaj.zone
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 (DIR) Post #AYcwrvG02q8kqXAiAa by cute_stuff@blahaj.zone
       2023-08-11T15:26:05.050Z
       
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       FOSS bros when you ask them how is not letting people install proprietary drivers that make their PC work "freedom".
       
 (DIR) Post #AYcwrw52z2yPOr3Tjk by iska@catposter.club
       2023-08-11T16:52:45.588Z
       
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       @cute_stuff@blahaj.zone who said that you can't?
       
 (DIR) Post #AYcwxoGewaXouHHtNA by thor@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T16:52:35Z
       
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       @cute_stuff a lot of the Linux/FOSS ideology is just as nazi as what commercial vendors do, because it turns out control freaks exist everywhere
       
 (DIR) Post #AYcwxoyyHpzR7i1HRQ by thor@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T16:53:30Z
       
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       @cute_stuff being a leftist or copyleftist doesn't automatically make you good, nor does being a right-winger or capitalist automatically make you bad
       
 (DIR) Post #AYcx6EpS4eXRbLa34i by thor@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T16:54:09Z
       
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       @cute_stuff shockingly, it turns out that these things have nuances
       
 (DIR) Post #AYcxe4ZMj0GXd0BpHE by uberrice@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T17:01:33Z
       
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       @thor @cute_stuff I never got the whole deal of "USE ONLY CORE/LIBREBOOT BECAUSE FREEDOM".Dude. It's the BIOS.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYd0eC2PG0leeZWS3c by cute_stuff@blahaj.zone
       2023-08-11T17:18:12.904Z
       
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       @iska@catposter.club "technically you can, but you need to jump through these hoops to make it work and good luck getting updates/support" isn't much better than "i won't let you install this OS". Especially when the user either doesn't know how, can't or simply doesn't want to bother with doing all that just to make an OS work. This sounds nothing like freedom to me.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYd0eCmqTLukybFXRQ by iska@catposter.club
       2023-08-11T17:35:08.344Z
       
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       @cute_stuff@blahaj.zone If you're referring to FSF guidelines, it was really easy for me to install guix with nonfree drivers, worked great too ​:cirno_shrug:​
       
 (DIR) Post #AYdAJ3yf1tlf7BKk9g by moffintosh@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T19:23:25Z
       
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       @thor @cute_stuff being a leftist [...] doesn't automatically make you goodTrotsky be like
       
 (DIR) Post #AYdAVPecGIsTopqYG8 by moffintosh@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T19:25:39Z
       
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       @cute_stuff Well, you can't buy slaves either. 🤷‍♂️I know they aren't things in the same magnitude, but the objective of both limitations is to increase freedomness in the longer run
       
 (DIR) Post #AYdBafYmeRxAYJBm6q by mayonesa@berserker.town
       2023-08-11T19:37:49Z
       
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       @moffintosh @thor @cute_stuff There are only two groups of people, good realists and everyone else.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYdE9O7lfWh2WJEem0 by josemanuel@qoto.org
       2023-08-11T20:06:30Z
       
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       @cute_stuff If you think about it, your argument refutes itself: you first lost your freedom when you bought a PC that wouldn’t work without proprietary drivers.In all seriousness, the idea is that if you keep using proprietary software there will be no incentive to create free software alternatives and you will end up losing all control over your personal computer. That eventually leads to stuff like what Edward Snowden revealed.