• Hapbt@mastodon.social
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    8 months ago

    @Dehydrated this is my pet peeve everytime i try to discuss anything about linux someone interrupts me about how SOME COMPONENT is proprietary
    like yeah, the keyboard on the laptop is proprietary, so are all the ICs, come on…

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      8 months ago

      All the hardware is proprietary. The CPU, the ME in the CPU, the chipset on the mainboard, the BIOS, the RAM and SSD controllers, the TPM and everything else. Even the damn battery controller hardware and software are proprietary. It really doesn’t matter though.