[Arm-netbook] Reminder to let us know how to help with important issues to you

2020-09-18 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i'm pinging mike to find out where he's at. will let you know. I appreciate the update Luke, thanks. As a friendly reminder: please let us know what we can do to help both with technical issues, time on some work that differently technical people can help

Re: [Arm-netbook] Fwd: [eoma68 update] report back from factory on HDMI

2019-07-03 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: Again, to reiterate, because I am still seeing evidence of "complaints" out there, from people who believe this should be easy: Thanks, as always, for the updates. If we can somehow help, please do let us know. I do not envy you having to deal with the per

Re: [Arm-netbook] apple "security" prevents and prohibits repair...

2018-10-05 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: *sigh* and tim cook bless him is talking about privacy... it's as if noone listens to him, even inside apple itself... I think I may have missed a sarcastic note there: Do you actually believe that Tim Cook cares about Apple user's privacy? It's like reading

Re: [Arm-netbook] OT: Librem 5?

2017-09-27 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: now, it *just so happens* that someone recently discovered that the NSA has clearly had their fingers into intel processors... because they requested a DISABLE function of the ME back-door co-processor. without such a disable function there would be absolu

[Arm-netbook] Reverse engineering for freedom is a fine use of non-free software

2017-06-18 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: indeed. it may sound strange but when there is no other option (and by that i mean *exhaustive* analysis finds no other option) i do not mind "crossing the line" into what would traditionally be viewed by software libre purists as "unacceptable territory" *IF

Re: [Arm-netbook] Debian GNU/Linux, nonfree software, and FSF's free distros list

2016-10-15 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: You can install an entirely free system with no non-free components. You can also install Debian without taking account of any recommends. But the recommends and suggests fields are still listing nonfree software, which was the FSF's issue. Not accepting the suggestio

[Arm-netbook] Debian GNU/Linux, nonfree software, and FSF's free distros list

2016-10-15 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: they're doing the best that they believe they can do, but they _have_ been told. see joey hess's very public description of the Debian Charter as a "toxic document". I've seen https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2014/11/msg00174.html where Hess makes this

Re: [Arm-netbook] Minor corrections to EOMA68 name on elinux.org wiki? Or source for authoritative written info?

2016-09-08 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i can't work out how to do page-moves... did you manage the PassThrough one as well? If you're referring to http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA68/Passthrough then yes that was handled too. If that's not the URL you're referring to pl

Re: [Arm-netbook] Minor corrections to EOMA68 name on elinux.org wiki? Or source for authoritative written info?

2016-09-07 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i know, i'm going through them. feel free to help if you like. I just moved a bunch of pages as I went around correcting "EOMA-68" to "EOMA68" (except in one instance which mentioned the misspelling on http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architect

Re: [Arm-netbook] Minor corrections to EOMA68 name on elinux.org wiki? Or source for authoritative written info?

2016-09-07 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: i know, i'm going through them. feel free to help if you like. No problem; I'm happy to help after my wiki login is approved. ___ arm-netbook mailing list arm-netbook@lists.phcomp.co.uk http://lists.phcomp.co

[Arm-netbook] Minor corrections to EOMA68 name on elinux.org wiki? Or source for authoritative written info?

2016-09-06 Thread J.B. Nicholson
Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: ok so i've written here in favour of that idea: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/EOMA-68#EOMA-68 Is the page at http://elinux.org/Embedded_Open_Modular_Architecture/EOMA-68 authoritative? If so, perhaps this page should be re