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>Still, it's bizarre considering you can install Linux on any PC/laptop you buy. It is kinda not true. There are windows 2 in 1 and recent macbooks on which it is almost impossible to install linux.
> recent macbooks on which it is almost impossible to install linux That's FUD, and you know it. You can disable secure boot on Mac and boot whatever you want.
> Almost right after that was a Chinese holiday, the Golden Week, which is in practice a two week holiday. This doesn't match with my experience. Golden Week is a one-week holiday that gets you less than 5 days of vacation, because -- although companies are legally required to give Monday through Friday off -- the norm is to work on weekends around the holiday to make up for the lost time. Does anyone have an idea wh…
> Almost right after that was a Chinese holiday, the Golden Week, which is in practice a two week holiday. This doesn't match with my experience. Golden Week is a one-week holiday that gets you less than 5 days of vacation, because -- although companies are legally required to give Monday through Friday off -- the norm is to work on weekends around the holiday to make up for the lost time. Does anyone have an idea wh…
I'd be interested in hearing anyone's experience with holidays and China B2B. Is it just kind of known that things stop there for certain weeks? Or are these formally set out in schedules? My only experience has been B2C, where the experience is generally {no response} -> {a week later: "Oh, everyone was on holiday"}
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Where are they getting the LTE baseband software from?
They're not of course. They just treat the modem as walled off peripheral black box like all the other rest of the hardware. They may load firmware on boot for LTE/Wifi/Bluetooth like most Linux laptops do. Depending on your opinion on the topic that may be free enough or not but it should be safe as none of those can access the CPU/RAM directly.
Is the idea that all of the software in the kernel to interface with these devices is open source?
I also don’t get the hangup over PCIe (vs USB). DMA with an IOMMU can be made fairly secure (and has obvious perf benefits).
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> crack the firmware In most cases, you don't have to crack anything, you can officially unlock the bootloader and flash your own OS build. Yes, you can't touch the early boot initialization, you're still required to use vendor blobs for using wireless/modem/camera/etc things, but you can control most of the software that matters.
Yea using adb/oemunlock. Sometimes you have to get a code (like with Sony, you input your IMEI number into their website and get one). I've had one Sony that was unlockable; a condition of the original cell provider. Still, it's bizarre considering you can install Linux on any PC/laptop you buy. The bigger issue of course, is that you can't just install Linux on a phone. They're all random pins soldered to random chi…
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> recent macbooks on which it is almost impossible to install linux That's FUD, and you know it. You can disable secure boot on Mac and boot whatever you want.
You can boot, but not install , as Linux won't see the internal storage that's controlled by the T2 chip.
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You can boot, but not install , as Linux won't see the internal storage that's controlled by the T2 chip.
So Linux need some drivers or it's a fundamental restriction from Apple?
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You can boot, but not install , as Linux won't see the internal storage that's controlled by the T2 chip.
So Linux need some drivers or it's a fundamental restriction from Apple?
And apparently disabling secure boot still doesn't fix the issue -- see the Phronix updates[1]. I only found one article claiming you can get past over all the T2 "security" features[2], but they explicitly say (at the end of the article) that they haven't actually tested booting or installing Linux.
[1]: https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Apple-T2... [2]: https://www.imore.com/no-apples-not-locking-you-out-linux-ma...
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They're not of course. They just treat the modem as walled off peripheral black box like all the other rest of the hardware. They may load firmware on boot for LTE/Wifi/Bluetooth like most Linux laptops do. Depending on your opinion on the topic that may be free enough or not but it should be safe as none of those can access the CPU/RAM directly.
I see. The question here is not if there will be proprietary software: there will be. The question is which of that proprietary software runs on the CPU. Is the idea that all of the software in the kernel to interface with these devices is open source? I also don’t get the hangup over PCIe (vs USB). DMA with an IOMMU can be made fairly secure (and has obvious perf benefits).
There's also just more layers of security when using USB as opposed to a single layer with PCIe (IOMMU -- which is secure as far as I know but I'd prefer to be safe rather than sorry in this case).
It’s hard to overstate how important Librem phone is. Currently, it’s pretty much impossible to buy a high end phone that you can actually own. All Android based phones have their firmware locked and root access disabled. This effectively means that you do not own the device, and you don’t get the final say as to what will be running on it. I’m aware that it’s possible to crack the firmware, but I think that’s comple…