lengau

Stupid autocorrect!

Err... I mean uhh... No, I mean bird mounts! Don't you like mounting birds in your filesystem?

And bird mounts

Installing SL is part of my standard cloud-init config.

You sound surprised...

The SOC uses U-Boot to boot. The Imagination GPU is more of a problem, but there's work underway to get an open source driver fully working. I've got my own kernel and mesa running on multiple dev boards and, while I can't run a full desktop with mesa on that PowerVR driver yet, I have been able to render some basic things with it. I can, however, install a 6.6 kernel and some userspace binaries to get full acceleration ITMT.

This isn't really ready for standard consumer use anyway. The point of this is basically as a glorified developer board, which was exactly what I bought it for.

The native performance of this board is similar to a Raspberry Pi 3. With Box64 it'll be significantly worse.

There's quite a push behind RISC-V now, in part because China seems to like the idea of not being tied to American or British companies for their CPU architecture. We'll see whether it actually pass out or not.

If someone who makes ARM hardware wants to make a mainboard, I'd imagine Framework will work with them under the same conditions they're working with DeepComputing on the RISC-V one.

Kinda?

I view Oracle as worse than Google.

I don't like GNOME, but I've honestly had consistently worse experiences with Cinnamon.

Yep, which also explains why a distro that comes with Cinnamon won...

Apt repos are like that for several reasons, one of which is that it allows DNS based mirroring without having to share a certificate. Another is that back when apt started out, HTTPS was pretty rare.

Centralising around Flathub seems to me like it defeats the point of flatpak being able to have multiple repositories.