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Friday, June 2, 2023

[02:06:16] Gentoo/rizon !bang

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[02:15:26] Gentoo/rizon There are still firewire devices that work, but that's kind of just niche stuff

[02:16:42] Gentoo/rizon USB-C is a port, which can transmit USB 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 4, lightning and displayport, but good luck figuring out which protocols are supported

[02:17:11] Gentoo/rizon Looks like you can actually do FireWire over USB-C

[02:18:47] Gentoo/rizon Like 1 day of compiling at most.

[02:19:49] Gentoo/rizon That's dependant of if you want to compile at the Rust programs or not.

[02:20:14] Gentoo/rizon Slow

[02:23:00] Gentoo/rizon Yes, but that's encapsulation of the USB protocol over Ethernet packets and the Ethernet protocol isn't being adjusted to work with USB.

[02:23:52] Gentoo/rizon Yes, that's how encapsulation works.

[02:24:39] Gentoo/rizon Yes, but proprietary software is wielded as a weapon to makes a bunch of things possible to achieve.

[02:25:46] Gentoo/rizon Everything is possible in software, but in practice what you can actually achieve is restricted via proprietary tricks with proprietary sofwtare.

[02:25:49] Gentoo/rizon *software

[02:27:20] Gentoo/rizon That's part of the trickery, but it's not limited to that.

[02:30:13] Gentoo/rizon Yes, proprietary software and its authors usually purposefully mislead the suckers.'

[02:35:12] Gentoo/rizon Yes, all hardware is proprietary.

[02:36:16] Gentoo/rizon I tend to use hardware that has things in ROM (which means that such is hardware, not software), which doesn't require acceptance of a proprietary software license./

[02:37:16] Gentoo/rizon I have no problem with free microcode updates, but microcode updates that require acceptance of a proprietary software license that forbids reverse engineering is something that I simply won't install.

[02:38:03] Gentoo/rizon Sure hardware unfortunately has software hidden in strange places, but as I own the hardware, I can do whatever I want with that hardware. I'm also slowly working to replace the software piece by piece.

[02:38:52] Gentoo/rizon Proprietary software used can't understand what the software does and can't help their neighbours, so they're suckers.

[02:41:25] Gentoo/rizon Why do you assume that I'm against support immediately?

[02:42:03] Gentoo/rizon Requiring payment for support of free software is a legitimate activity that a few businesses do - it's reasonably profitable too.

[02:43:17] Gentoo/rizon The distro's are GNU and whatever kernel is irrelevant for most practical purposes.

[02:43:33] Gentoo/rizon With free software, you can just go and find anyone who is able to use a computer properly and they'll be able to offer support.

[02:44:26] Gentoo/rizon Using proprietary software as a weapon to force people to pay only you for support (and nobody else) is unacceptable though.

[02:45:01] Gentoo/rizon If you don't want to offer support, that's fine, you can sell the free software instead.

[02:45:37] Gentoo/rizon Yes, proprietary malware is often used as a weapon against unsuspecting users.

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