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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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