2017-12-30 1:57 GMT+03:00 [email protected] <[email protected]>: > I am glad there are still some good people in the coreboot community. > > Thanks for the info, yeah I have put up a stink about it many times but it > seemed like no one cared. I have been moderated from the list many times for > complaining about the direction the project is going in (corporate > controlled, only unobtainable intel dev boards supported due to absurd > standards etc) and all the shady money people like purism censoring > developers (they even tried to get someone fired from google from posting a > simple fact about their products on the coreboot blog) and constantly > badgering the FSF to try and get them to ruin the RYF standard. > > I assume purism is behind the requests to remove half the useful coreboot > boards - it makes financial sense for them to do this and they certainly > have the low morals required for it.
Yes, I am also very disappointed in purism, and its still unclear for me why they went the Intel road, when - at 2013 - they could have created a more freedom-respecting equivalent of G505S, instead of yet-another-Intel-laptop-with-ME-crapware..... but deep in the heart i still hope they'd use their (a bit fraudulently earned) money for a good cause - e.g. if they would create a truly libre laptop based at not-ME/PSP cpu Taiidan, same questions to you (if your G505S has a discrete graphics): do you have a discrete graphics working with two vgabios'es, and if yes - at what setup? Great idea is to stockpile the G505S and its spare replacement parts / IC components , so that - if your current one breaks - you had a more than one replacement. Lenovo tells that the average lifespan of G505S laptop is 4 years - and, while it could survive longer in the caring hands - it would really help if you have the replacement G505S / G505S motherboards / major components of G505S motherboard like the spare KB9012QF A3 controllers and southbridge, Especially the KB9012's - they are very cheap, and at the same time - vulnerable to voltage spikes, so if you have unstable electricity at house and your power adapter wouldn't block a spike - KB9012 could easily die. AliExpress is your friend... :P -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAAaskFDvfoemy3NfK9sT25RB%2B7OU%2BdZcroJYPirekqsFvk9zwQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
