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Nothing formal, but if the service itself does go down (i.e. your VPS drops and can't be restarted due to a service problem, or connectivity fails, etc.) refunds / service credits …

Timothy Pearson from Raptor here...so if storage becomes a main concern it definitely becomes less expensive to lease a dedicated box vs. a VPS from Integricloud, and that's by des…

Anyone wanting control of a powerful modern computer is part of the target market. We just haven't been able to drive the price down further at this time -- doing hardware design a…

Keep an eye out for an EU distributor of ours -- probably sometime late this month / early next if all goes well...

I wouldn't be surprised -- it's a gaping hole for anticheat software if not addressed. In fact, long term the anticheat is going to have to require a completely locked-down (consol…

> Provide a path to a $1300 laptop that is POWER based (and not crippled "slow 1 core SMT1" stuff from IBM's dead-bin) and you might entice System76 and Purism. I just gave them a …

I wouldn't be here if I didn't see a bunch of headlines yesterday that made it sound like these new laptops have proper open firmware. They don't. That's why I'm here, to provide t…

The general answer is yes and yes. That's why OMI / OpenCAPI are being released as standards, with RTL / HDL. I think at this point there would be more appetite for a next gen inte…

Microwatt is the first fully open POWER core: https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt It's also structured very well, quite clean for learning purposes etc. The current goal so…

OK, I think I may have been misunderstood... What they are doing in that space is valuable. However, with just a bit more tweaking, they could offer something a whole lot more valu…

You might be ascribing quite a bit more leverage to System76 than they actually have here. No one is going to get Intel or AMD to allow open PSP/ME firmware -- AIUI even Google, wi…

Actually, yes! We're closely monitoring the development progress of the open toolchains for various FPGAs; with POWER ISA now being open for implementation by anyone anywhere, I co…

Yep, I figured as much. We'd love to do a laptop, we're literally just stalled on the GPU. This is where a consortium of ODMs and OEMs could possibly effect change, the combined bu…

That may be. However, I was using Linux on bog-standard computers before System76 was even founded -- preinstalling Linux on a computer isn't exactly revolutionary, and it's in a c…

I still don't understand why you would even care about the firmware if you're running Windows. To me, that would be like building a fortified, ultra-secure rear doorway into a run …

Watch out for the LX2160A -- if you intend to use certain items, like any of the onboard high speed networking, you have to load blobs. This was one reason we decided (after carefu…

Which, it should be noted, is impossible due to Intel's hardware-enforced signature checks. Even if a key were to be stolen from Intel it would then be illegal to use in all Wester…

It was that strongly worded because I've been fighting the "neutralized" rumor ever since it was started (presumably to try to save x86 market share among security conscious people…

That depends heavily on where you're transmitting (i.e what frequency and bandwidth you use) along with the power you're transmitting at. First, as a ham radio operator, no, you ca…

I hadn't, thanks for the link! It's an interesting possibility for a terminal device, though I'd prefer something open ISA -- if that was either POWER or RISC-V vs. ARM, I'd probab…

OK, that makes sense. And yes, it causes problems for coreboot -- AIUI there are no modern AMD systems supported, because AMD has not allowed use of the AGESA blob in that way.

To the downvoters: I'm guessing you wanted to run Windows 10 "safely" somehow, or sandbox your games. There's almost no other reason to be this stuck on x86; at the end of the day …

The ancient AGESA open sourced well over a decade ago, then closed down a few years later right about when the PSP started to appear on AMD platforms? Or do you mean the modern AGE…

IANAL, but this is what I've been told: Both. Copyright applies to some aspects, patents to others, and then you also get into trademark rights. With the US having embraced effecti…

Honest question: why do you consider System76 to be building new roads by using locked hardware and offering partial open source firmware for it? Wouldn't the new roads kudos be mo…