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I really want to like system76 laptops, but I can't help but feel they are literally straight out of a prefab China warehouse, same old crummy quality plastic crap.
Build quality is surprisingly good to my experience (just received a Lemur Pro), as also confirmed by a couple of reviewers of that model.
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The source to their server seems open source licensed and available: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server Wikipedia also says their server is open source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_(software)
So where is the source for the latest patch fixing this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25803010 ?
SiFive [1] "SiFive is the first company to produce a chip that implements the RISC-V ISA" I think they have a bright future ahead. If there was a way to buy their stock / invest in them, I would. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SiFive
As you’re talking about Apple, I find System76’s Linux computers, especially their notebooks [1] and their Ubuntu-based Pop! OS [2] a breeze of fresh air. This hardware/software combination gives me an Apple-like experience while committing to free software. The OS’s UX is very developer friendly as windows can be moved around and tiled using keyboard shortcuts. Then there’s a launcher bar similar to CMD+space on mac…
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Build quality is surprisingly good to my experience (just received a Lemur Pro), as also confirmed by a couple of reviewers of that model.
How is the audio quality on that lemur pro. I have tinnitus and headphones make it worse. So far I have not been able to find a linux laptop with good speakers.
ReMarkable - very good hardware e-paper note taking tablet. It needs better software and I hope they'll grow enough to build it.
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"Open source" does not mean "all patches immediately published."
I'm curious how long you need to wait before you declare it non-open-source.
I'm not sure there is a practical upper limit. Ghostscript for example for years only released as open source the version prior to the current one, and no one claimed that the existence of a proprietary fork invalidated the status of the open source version, no matter how long the delay between releases.
Admittedly there are differences, in Signal's case the deployed version is not currently released at all, but the worst case would be "open source version is no longer maintained", at which point I suspect that several forks would spring up, causing some confusion until one gained traction and dominance.
Right now, the latest release is 9 months old. This is certainly annoying and even concerning, but not yet cause for outright alarm, which can probably wait until March has gone by with no announced release schedule.