@valpackett @elly @CommieGIR @marcan and then people woubder why #RaspberryPi owns the #ARM-#SBC market, cuz whilst their #BinaryBlob approach of bootcode.bin isn't cool, they at least give people proper documentation to the point that one can build i.e. @OS1337 for it and have it boot within very few attempts.

@Cappyjax @WB2EEE @Zugschlus @elly

I disagree with your assessment to some extent, as on #Linux there's not much of a tolerace or even acceptance of #rootkits like #CorwdStrike for all the right reasons!

• #Scareware like that has no legitimate reason to exist and the only place I've seen that is on #Windows because people distrusting #WindowsDefender and thus #Microsoft are unwilling to to what is evidently the correct solution and yeet Windows for good.

Cuz it's not about #Fanboyism, but a fact that most Windows - #Sysadmins (or rather decisionmakers for that matter) seem to be high on #Copium and refuse to take actual #consequences but accept the #Enshittification as a fact of life when it's not...

• Or am I the only one who remembers the rightful backclash when #ads were shoved into #Ubuntu whilst on #Windows11 and #Windows10 people just seem to shrug their shoulders?

It's just that this entire shitshow would not have happened on #Linux because here we don't have an entire ecosystem of #ValueRemoving "#AntiVirus" bs being shoved on Desktops and Servers in the form of #Binaryblob #Kernelhacks!

@Zugschlus @elly I sincerely disagree because on #Linux there is neither need nor demand for #Scareware like #CrowdStrike and even then noone should allow such garbage in their systems as a #rootkit!

• In fact, #Linux has an #ABI for the specific function so no need to shove a #BinaryBlob into the Kernel and no issues on Linux systems...

@SweetAIBelle thanks!

That's exactly what I was looking for - tho I've to also find the #WindowsXP drivers since #WindowsVista really feels garbage on these machines...

• Sadly the #PPA for the #Pulsbo / #GMA500 driver on #UbuntuLTS 12.04 went down and I've yet to source that #binaryblob and Kernel Module loader & build script as this provided #OpenGL ES hardware acceleration, and neither #Intel nor #PowerVR / #ImaginationTechnologies were willing to release it, despite it existing (there even was a #DellMini with #Ubuntu 8.04 sold with it!)...

Either way, I think that both the #EeePC701 and #Vaio #P11Z would greatly benefit from being rereleased with a new, #IntelAtom / #CeleronJ / #N100-based Mainboard and other updated components that make then quieter, more power saving and way faster...

• Some Chinese #HardwareHackers going by the group alias #NB51 did make their own custom #Mainboard for the #ThinkPad #X230 but those were super rare and expensive if even available...

If I had the money I would've likely completed the #NUCbook and just go with a chonky machine...
https://github.com/kbtechnologies/NUCbook