To be fair, OP didn’t claim that the remote wasn’t bricked…

And enslaving a significant chunk of their own folks too.

You know, I’m pretty sure that Amazon has enouuh profit margins to pay their employees fair wages if they wanted too, even without your purchases

Damn buying a “Fuck Trump” shirt while indirectly financing the guy is next level irony and peak capitalism

Their firmware isn’t opensource. At least not fully. Only the EC firmware has been opensourced, that is the firmware for the micro-controller responsible for the battery, keyboard, buttons, LEDs, sensors, and so on…

The boot firmware, responsible for getting the CPU and hardware in a bootable state, is absolutely proprietary. There is initial support for one specific framework motherboard in coreboot, a partially libre boot firmware, but it’s very new and I don’t know exactly what is and isn’t supported…

Heh made me chuckle

Yeah same, although I just say the entire word

I thank you meant “completely”, which is totally different to “complacently”

Fair but Ubuntu Touch is not mainline Linux. It’s a hack to get a GNU/systemd Userland working with an Android kernel (which arguably is also a huge feat)

Sure, but PMOS is by far the most complete and “daily-ready” mobile mainline Linux distro out there. In fact I’m pretty sure both Mobian and MoA use the PMOS kernels…

No. Most people mean PostmarketOS, which is Busybox/musl/Linux

Oh come on. “Rice” by far outgrew it’s racist part. 99.999% of people using the term don’t use it as a dog whistle…

Well then he’s neither: he’s American. He lives in Dunthorpe, Oregon and has been naturalised American. That’s all beyond the point: what people mean isn’t his official citizenship, but his ethnicity, his cultural background. And in that regard, he’s Swedish.

Fair enough, I guess you’re the first tech illiterate I meet on such a niche social media as Lemmy

I’m a little surprised considering their aggressive as campaigns, the fact they’ve existed for over 10 years and that their market share is higher than the mac’s

It’s the OS on Chromebooks

No, that’s ChromeOS. Windows still assumes some knowledge that you may take for granted, but someone who’s never used a computer before might not know.

No, we went Automata, Finite State Machines, regex, grammars, set-theoretical and other mathematical formalisms

It’s funny, I never associated formal languages as part of the theory of computation. We only learnt about them from the perspective of automata/state machine theory

Your Mac technically runs a modified FreeBSD with a modified Mach kernel.