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Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  arm is much more proprietary and less open than Intel

  That is exactly backwards. How many companies are licensed to make Intel/AMD comparable CPUs? 4? 6? How many for Arm? Hundreds of companies (Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, etc.).

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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I am not referring to the chips themselves, but to the ecosystem around and the more often than not unlockable bootloaders and lack of something like bios or UEFI. Even on UEFI you can disable Microsoft keys and install yours, at least on decent ones.

    But yes, arm is an easier to reproduce architecture at this time, chip side at least

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    • CallMeAl@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It seems like you are mixing up the “ecosystem” with the application: desktop, mobile phone, etc.

      10 years ago there were mobile phones running Intel Atom and they were just as bootlocked as any other phone. I personally have two intel based chromebooks and unlocking their bootloader requires taking them apart.

      Whereas my arm based Pinebook Pro requires no unlock at all. I have lots of Arm based SBCs and all of them came unlocked as well.

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      • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Then, I stand corrected …

        Thank you

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• EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  a part from much better power management

  That’s not a small thing. This translates into lower heat generation and longer battery life.

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• steam@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  why do you need it to be open? im asking genuinely.

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  • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Oh pretty please let me pay a licensing fee on top of an already expensive part

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because monoplies are bad…

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  • Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Sharing is caring

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  • MushuChupacabra@piefed.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To prevent enshitification.

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  • Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    The overall success of the Intel platform is that bios/UEFI is open so you can install any OS you want. On Arm this is not always the case (see phones and tablets) where more than not vendors lock in OS with an unlockable bootloader and crypto keys.

    Also, on Intel, hardware is more standard and so drivers are available, or easily reverse engineered, for non mainstream os (Linux…). On Arm again this is rarely the case, and you are stuck with old not supported kernels when you are lucky

    There is one exception to all this on Arm and it’s the Pi (with all the clones). But as far as phones, tablets (including windows tablets) and even laptops (chromeos stuff…) the reality is pretty different and would bring us a locked in future where the choice we have today is luxury.

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