Post AcCJDph8P6PuPonDea by defanor@emacs.ch
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 (DIR) Post #Ac7352dYLUUEtM6Vua by fsf@hostux.social
       2023-11-23T23:00:02Z
       
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       Need to know whether a piece of hardware is supported by free software? #hNode has you covered! Its search engine will help you verify #freesoftware compatibility. https://u.fsf.org/3ui
       
 (DIR) Post #AcCJDph8P6PuPonDea by defanor@emacs.ch
       2023-11-26T11:54:27Z
       
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       @fsf I think there should be a warning message telling that people should not rely on that alone, and I am usually accompanying references to h-node with such a warning: one should also ask or look around, preferably finding people using the exact same model, confirming that it works, or finding an opportunity to try it out before buying the hardware. Maybe look into more specialized wikis with lists of hardware (OpenWRT, GNU Radio, LinuxTV, etc), too.As an example, I checked on my former graphics card now, GTX 660, and h-node still says that it "works with 3D acceleration" with free software (as it used to say years ago), while I had to use a proprietary driver for about a decade of its usage, and then had to take it out when the proprietary driver ceased supporting it, with nouveau still leading to the system freezing after a few minutes, as it did back when it was a new card.I was just about to finally edit at least that one, after getting around all the 403 errors, adjusting the password to match the website's odd restrictions, authenticating via plain HTTP (it seems to use HTTPS for everything but authentication), and then it asks to write the "kernel libre" version it was tested with (I assume it matters more for claims that things work: those not working on a regular kernel likely will not work with Linux-libre, either), as well as the lspci output I no longer have access to; there is a tiny chance that a slightly different model actually worked fine, or that it worked fine with a certain kernel version, so just switching it to "does not work" seems potentially wrong. But leaving it as it is feels wrong as well.