cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/44505636
Hello Everyone,
I have been cooking and will get back to many of you soon. Quesadillas, breakfast burritos, and some noodles have been a start of what my cooking repertoire has become. No longer is my food burnt or undercooked, as I’m being more conscious and feeling more nourished :)
The title of this post is meant to start a discussion with those of you who have freed yourself from all the proprietary software (or most, excluding devices assigned by your employer).
As corporations pervade nearly every aspect of our lives, I believe it would be a fun hobby to delve into FOSS with a group of you. We could discuss even ordering a RISC-V laptop/PC, driver creation, and how one designs a hobby board. The resulting computer will likely be leagues behind everything you can buy that is PnP, but it’s an obsession I would like to bring to fruition.
For those of you who yearn for a corporation free computing experience, how close have you gotten? What next step is stopping you from going deeper? I want to get back onto Matrix and start a channel for this if our sub admins would appreciate a reignition of this discussion. We could then open source this design to other auties and those interested in sharing knowledge. I believe we could build something beautiful for our community to use.
Thoughts? :)
Are there RISC V Laptops available on the market? And I wonder how many of my daily apps would run on it. I guess the most important would be a browser.
Not ready yet. There are a few dev kits but nothing realistically usable as a daily driver yet from what I’ve gathered
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I’m not too sure about this one. No brands stick out. I will do a quick bit of searching, but this is what I’ve found on the surface level.
https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/the-worlds-first-risc-v-laptop-gets-a-big-update-deepcomputing-doubled-the-core-count-increased-clocks-to-2-ghz-and-added-ai-capabilities
The framework laptop, a modular laptop, now has a risc v motherboard, to be used in their computers. Framework prides itself in being a good open source steward and you can read more about the motherboard here and buy it here (when it will be available):
https://frame.work/products/deep-computing-risc-v-mainboard
https://frame.work/blog/introducing-a-new-risc-v-mainboard-from-deepcomputing