As far as I understand rms criticizes the way the technology was designed: by
triangulation, the phone operators can quite precisely locate its customers.
If the code running on the modem was free, that problem would persist.
@tonless: summing up what Soon.to.be.Free explained, Debian would
Well, you do not have any swap (or it is deactivated): it is normal you
cannot hibernate. You can create either a swap partition (e.g., using fdisk
or GNU parted or gParted, its graphical interface, which is far less
intimidating) or, easier (especially if you have no partition to shrink;
What? Where?
I hadn't heard of OsmocomBB. I was under the impression that no one has
liberated a modem. It's hard to tell from their website how complete or
active the project is. Is a free/libre mobile phone in fact feasible? RMS
seems to think not.
It doesn't take the Chinese government to do that- the NSA can turn most cell
phones into such surveillance devices (and probably botnets if they wanted
to) pretty easily already. The Chinese government, I suspect, wouldn't even
need to bother with loading the malware remotely.
Apart from
In a broadcast a person spoke about the possibility, you buy a device and it
will have built in surveillance software. A person could buy several hundred
devices. Put surveillance or botnet software on them. Then sell them
lowpriced. He spoke about governments doing it. A chinese government
I didn't for this setup.
$ swaopn -s
gives me
FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
And nothing more
The subject machine has an UEFI bios, and cannot seem to boot either Trisquel
7 or 8 from USB. Attempts to boot the live image result in a black screen.
Debian, Ubuntu, Arch, and Void live images boot fine. Is Trisquel not meant
to be bootable with UEFI?
Forgot to mention - reasonable expectation that it will survive and not go
belly up in the near to mid term.
Great answer to an intemperate post.
Irony siren: I can't go to the site at work because I get a "Privacy Error"
blocking page. Nice.
Good morning,
I have received two Libreboot T400 from Minifree a last week and the work
like a charm. The service was great and delivery was quick. The laptops were
properly packaged and protected to travel in good conditions. One of the T400
was field tested at http://sha2017.org and
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