Comment on It is only a matter of time before private citizens are arrested and charged with crimes for owning/using powerful computer parts and software without official permission and authentication

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  The raspberry pi is not open hardware, as far as I know. For example the Broadcom SoC used are definitely not open hardware.

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  • CorrenteAlternata@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And also, having open hardware (i.e. having full specifications and schematics) is not really going to help much if you can’t get CPUs (you can’t manufacture your own CPUs: the machinery required costs way too much).

    If they really ban owning CPUs, the only one to obtain one would be through black market…

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  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Alright then, Pine64 FTW!

    https://pine64.org/devices/

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