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Would it almost be equivalent to snap on Android?

I’ve heard very little about it. Is there some controversy around it?

waiting to see it ported to the HTC hd2

Ah, missed the if

I mean it’s still a touch centric device first and foremost. I’m not so familiar though, what year were iPad pro’s introduced? I wasn’t aware you could flash Linux on those, that’s pretty neat.

I used to have a keyboard folio cover with the original retina iPad (I think third gen?) back in the day and got the majority of my writing done on it, but I still relied heavily on gesture navigation and what not.

Maybe I’ll try gnome on my steam deck as a quick test.

I also want to see RV develop to a point where it can compete with incumbents but this isn’t a hardware vulnerability. The issue here lies with AGESA, AMD will be moving to OpenSIL hopefully around 2026.

Furthermore, RISC-V is an Open ISA but that doesn’t necessarily mean products based on this remain open.

for sure, enabling professional work where needed is all well and good, though you still need to consider the user experience with that form factor in mind.

I kind of dread to think about using Linux DEs on a tablet. Maybe gnome would work okay. I’m not sure if plasma features a tablet mode. If so, I’ll want to check that out on the steam deck.

I think that would be a very reasonable next step for them for sure.

With that said (and make no mistake, I’m no fan of apple), you can get a decent range if work done on an iPad, though I would love an open alternative.

Fully agreed on Fairphone. The mission is noble but the execution has been poor. I saw a revent interview with Nirav Patel, hoping against hope that framework would turn to phones next.

In the end it seems the most degoogleable phone is the pixel.

Safteynet is now more or less deprecated anyway. I shared this concern until I reached out to the team, mind you.

I also only recently learned that microg can run unprivileged

What binary blobs does microG download from Google? If you’re referring to safetynet, this is opt in and deprecated now anyway.

MicroG can also work unprivileged though that is contingent on your ROM

Isn’t this specific to AGESA rather than the hardware itself?

RISC-V ISA isn’t magically exempt from vulnerabilities. You can still be hit at a microcode level.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/GhostWrite-Vulnerability-RISC-V

For AMD, I’m wondering if OpenSIL can help prevent similar, deep system firmware vulnerabilities from lingering cross numerous product generations.

I don’t think they announced any such recall?

will need to check it out. Thank you for the tip

Oh neat. Hope it works for your needs. Let us know how it goes.

Have been keeping an eye on https://fcast.org/ but haven’t gotten involved yet.

It’s also possible to relock the bootloader on a handful of Motorola and fairphones, at least as part of the Calyx install procedure

they sometimes retail at a loss around the holiday season.

Since this is GCN based, you may be able to use the newer AMDGPU kernel driver? I’m not sure about that specific SKU, however. I remember that using AMDGPU on, for example, Hawaii (like the R9 290) was particularly finicky