Mastodawn

The idea that one should be forced to verify one's age or identity to use one's own computer absolutely baffles me.

@neil I do worry that we're seeing the beginning of the end of personal computing, in the sense of being able to own a machine that you control and that does your bidding.

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elle

@hedders @neil we're to a lesser extent also seeing a parallel beginning of fully truly open hardware. chip manufacturing is getting cheap enough to allow small shops to do runs of custom microcontrollers, e.g. https://www.baochip.com/

let's water what we want to grow. support open hardware / linux hardware shops like:

@mntmn
@frameworkcomputer
@bunnie

Baochip Official Site