If you use Arch you're either a neckbeard or a femboy. No in between
I use Arch btw
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I think this is a good place to link Stop Killing Games. There's currently an EU initiative under way to mandate that developers have to plan for the retirement of games with online services in a way that customers can still enjoy the game after the online services are shut down.
If you are a citizen of any EU country, please take your time to read through the initiative and sign it.
Unfortunately, the FSF isn't against firmware blobs, only against those updatable by a user.
From their Respects Your Freedom requirements page.
However, there is one exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software.
This means that proprietary firmware flashed at the factory and impossible to replace gets a pass, while hardware with firmware updates through blobs is rejected. Important security fixes (CPU microcode) or stability improvements will be missing if you can't update the firmware.
Yeah, the FSF stance on firmware is really weird.
Basically, if the firmware is not intended to be updated it's fine. But distributing updates, like security fixes, for firmware as blobs is somehow bad.
However, there is one exception for secondary embedded processors. The exception applies to software delivered inside auxiliary and low-level processors and FPGAs, within which software installation is not intended after the user obtains the product. This can include, for instance, microcode inside a processor, firmware built into an I/O device, or the gate pattern of an FPGA. The software in such secondary processors does not count as product software.
https://ryf.fsf.org/about/criteria
Here's an article from the previous time (?) this topic came up.
I found the source. See my sibling comment to yours
The same artist did some other tarot cards
Here you go
https://x.com/kae_illustrates/status/1799268678447636632
(Fuck Twitter, nearly impossible to explore)
There aren't any non big name manufacturers left for harddrives. And if you have the time, consider buying with some separation to reduce the risk of hard drives failing at the same time due to age.
I know of FairEmail, Niagara Launcher, FolderSync and Symfonium (if you DM the dev) which offer alternate payment methods.
If you could read, you'd note I provided the full definitions according to Meriam Webster. Two different definitions (a) and (b) are listed, with b(1) being exactly what you think "mindless" doesn't mean.
Holy shit, mindless doesn't mean "no thought."
It does though.
a: marked by a lack of mind or consciousness
a mindless sleep
b(1): marked by or displaying no use of the powers of the intellect
mindless violence
(2): requiring little attention or thought
especially: not intellectually challenging or stimulating
mindless work
a mindless movie
Afaik free speech protection in the US only protects against the government. Private companies, like Facebook, can still decide to not host you for whatever reason they want.
I'd say this is unlikely to change soon, looking at how little the US regulates its tech companies.