If you need a 3D printer and you want to be in control of your hardware, then avoid BambuLab:
Firmware Update Introducing New Authorization Control SystemLaunching first for X Series printers, with P and A Series updates planned for future release
Dear HP, I’ve been a loyal customer but when reading such news I doubt I will want to buy another HP device. Let’s keep supporting Linux and other free-as-freedom operative systems and I will keep supporting you
Già questo sarebbe sufficiente. Poi aggiungiamo che
Nel novembre 2017, è stato rivelato che l’applicazione preinstallata all’interno dei telefoni di Wiko (una sussidiaria di Tinno Mobile) trasmetteva mensilmente i dati tecnici a Tinno senza il consenso del cliente. La società ha confermato l’esistenza di tale sistema di raccolta delle informazioni e detta versione aggiornata di tali applicazioni non raccoglierà più informazioni geografiche dei dispositivi. …. Spegnimento remoto È stata identificata una vulnerabilità che consente a chiunque di spegnere in remoto un telefono utilizzando un messaggio di testo ‘=’, il difetto potrebbe essere nell’hardware, piuttosto che nel software.
Se per voi non è sufficiente, beh, per me lo è. Eccome se lo è. Quindi:
Wiko? No, grazie!
Lo stesso vale per Oppo, Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, Coolpad, LeEco, ed ovviamente Huawei e Xiaomi. Certo di questo passo dovrei escludere praticamente tutta l’elettronica o quasi, compreso FairPhone, lasciando fuori solo Samsung che ha saggiamente spostato fuori dalla Cina le sue fabbriche.
Jeffrey Paul ha aggiornato l’articolo che avevo citato a novembre ne «Il tuo computer non è tuo». Mi piacerebbe tradurlo, ma non sono un bravo traduttore e tempo ne ho pochissimo. Quasi quasi provo ad usare DeepL.
The new Air would be almost perfect, except for the OS. And I don’t have the time to tinker with it, or the inclination to fight companies that don’t want to help.
Linus Torvalds about porting Linux to Apple’s M1
It’s only a matter of time and we will get it. We already have the low-level but very cheap Pine64 Pro.
As a society, we need an open source device for reading. Books are among the most important documents of our culture, yet the most popular and widespread devices we have for reading — the Kobo, the Nook, the Kindle and even the iPad — are closed devices, operating as small moving parts in a set of giant closed platforms whose owners’ interests are not always aligned with readers’.
Joeycastillo‘s aims are more than good. It is a step in the right direction. Sadly, the e-ink screen currently available for such “built-it-yourself” hardware is not comparable with those of Kobo, Nook or Kindle. It’s way too small, and its resolution are too coarse.
I would rather prefer a “free-as-in-freedom” ROM for my Kobo. Luckily it seems that there are several custom firmware for Kobo, according to DuckDuckGo. You can even turn your Kobo into a Debian Linux Tablet. Here’s some random links about it:
The one I liked more is okreader. Its README says:
Free/libre software stack for Kobo ebook readers. No proprietary software (except WiFi and EPD controller firmware), no spyware and no DRM. Based on koreader and Debian.
I now have an official excuse to get me another Kobo: I can’t mess up those of my daughter, she will need it this summer!
Everyday I keep finding reasons to avoid Apple products. Why? Because they consider their clients like sub-humans that must be kept stupid and shackled.
“Pseudo browsers like Chrome, Edge, and FireFox on iOS also do not support any progressive web app functionality on iOS. These browsers use the webview to render pages and not their own engines. So, for now, they are also limited.”
From from I understand it seems that the owner of an iPhone cannot install a “proper browser” in iOS. Apple forbids the rightful owner to use its own device as he likes, more specifically they forbid to install a browser that implements its own rendering engine.
I think I will never buy such devices: I want to have full control on my own devices.
For sure I will keep explaing this deficiencies and telling people to avoid Apple’s products.
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Everyday I keep finding reasons to avoid Apple products. Why? Because they consider their clients like sub-humans that must be kept stupid and shackled.