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You can refuse to argue with me all you want, but it's not analogous. The Libre Tea card does not include any proprietary software when it is shipped to you or depend on any proprietary software for its intended use. That's exactly what it means for a product to respect your freedom. An x86 CPU...

You do realize that recent x86 CPUs that have mandatory co-processors literally capable of reading the entire system RAM, right? Using that and applying for a hypothetical privacy-respecting certification would be akin to the Raspberry Pi applying for RYF. Or, for that matter, applying for RYF...

What exactly are you advocating for? Who is pretending that the computer card does not have an Allwinner SoC? Who is pretending that Allwinner has not been guilty of GPL violations? All you seem to have is some tenuous claim of "taint" because of Allwinner's unrelated "sin", and a dubious claim...

This is a philosophical objection you have to Allwinner as a company. Please don't pretend that its products are technically tainted because of this objection you have. I have already argued against the philosophical objection to supporting companies that do bad things by pointing out that we...

If it is a technical issue, prove it. I'm not going to respond further to your meaningless arguments (or rather, FUD) that rely on this core assumption until you do. I don't have time for this. Yes, it does. Specifically, two ThinkPad models sold by Minifree and Taranus (refurbished) are...

The entire point of copyleft is pragmatism. The fact that it's an Allwinner SoC is disclosed. Using an Allwinner SoC doesn't make it your job to tell potential buyers about all the evil things Allwinner does. There is no mention by either of the people distributing RYF-certified ThinkPad...

We don't apply this to the ThinkPad laptops which were manufactured by IBM. Who is guilty of putting DRM in their laptops. And those laptops actually have IBM branding plainly visible on them; the user doesn't see the Allwinner branding on the Libre Tea computer card. We don't reject Linux...

No, RYF is to promote devices that buyers can trust (i.e. they don't require proprietary software for any advertised function and won't cause anyone to accidentally run proprietary software). Ideological purity has nothing to do with that. Think Penguin, which has received two RYF certifications...

Nobody is pretending anything. Nowhere on the CrowdSupply page or anywhere else is it ever stated that Allwinner is a good company. Perhaps you don't understand this: there isn't any company producing low-level computer hardware that is good. All of these companies are very large and do bad...

No, it isn't. Yours is a software project. This is a hardware project. The main goal of this project, as I understand it, includes: - Making it easier to make your own custom hardware via 3-D printing. - Reducing e-waste. - Making new hardware that respects your freedom. I don't even see how...

No, of course not. That would be silly. It's because the forum software replaces Reddit links with "media" tags that have no non-js fallback.

Someone involved in the project responded to a question about that on Reddit: (It isn't relevant to RYF certification, though.)

Oh. That's not the same ambition or even a very similar type of project, so I don't think it's reasonable to compare that with this.

Right, the hardware is not amazing, but I don't think it needs to be. The concept is mainly what it's about. Computer cards are upgradeable, so it will be possible in the future to get better processing power and such if this gets off the ground. I think the physical side (like the lack of...

Chris from Think Penguin has mentioned this before, but it's being crowd-funded now, and it's really cool! https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop So, basically, the design is there's a "PC card" that has the actual computer on it, and you put that into a case. The case can be a...

I don't see how it would have any substantial effect, unless there's some nuance to the U.K.'s economy I'm not aware of (certainly possible). The U.K. wasn't using the Euro to begin with.

I don't think liking systemd better than sysvinit is uncommon. It's just that it's so obvious that systemd is better to most people that they just don't talk about it.

I probably won't need one immediately. I would get one if it turned out that the NAND wasn't big enough, or when the NAND wears out. I would use the Pyra like a regular computer. I don't see why I would get another computer involved. :shrug: Mostly when I'm out of town or otherwise in a...

I'm not interested in the hardware acceleration blob, so as long as stuff compiled for the Pyra goes through Mesa or something else that can fall back to software mode this time, I'll be happy. :) OpenGL support without hardware acceleration is not meaningless. I was able to run the Tiled map...

I got the impression that ED wanted the choice for performance reasons more than cost. Apparently having more RAM slows the system down very slightly. For what it's worth, my previous laptop had 2 GB of RAM, and it worked fine for me at the time. I was a regular GNOME Shell user, and I never...