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Oh sorry I meant I’ve seen reports that the voltage issue was due to a few faulty programmers, I’ve personally never used one.

Interestingly, this video also brings up amps as the root cause, not volts. I might get an Arduino in that case just for more control, but would you say it’s beginner-friendly? This would be my first time attempting libreboot (or any kind of chip programming for that matter)…

Thanks a ton. I’ve been looking into this myself, and it seems like the issue was mostly due to a few faulty CH341a models, and it also seems that newer models allow a toggle between 3.3v and 5v. But reassuring that it’s worked well for you too.

I think I might get a cheap multimeter as they can come for less than $10, just to be safe. Could be a good long term investment!

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Amazingggg, never thought of the YouTube use case, I’m gonna try it myself. I’ve been using NewPipe and Libretube, but they just don’t cut it for me hahaha.

Yep, the UI can be a bit tricky. If I swipe a few times it usually figures out that I’m trying to refresh, and does so.

My thoughts exactly! I plan to use Native Alpha mostly to give the devs ample time to improve Jerboa, and will eventually jump ship (I think)

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Oh nice, I’ll try this too!

I think you’re right in that the structure is confusing. Personally, I think it’s less confusing than it is “novel”. Like in a world where the fediverse was the norm, centralised apps would’ve been confusing.

Either which way, I think you’re correct – part of it is because we don’t really have a good analogy for how this whole thing works.

This is how I see it: Lemmy is like a house party hosted in a huge venue that has hundreds of doors (i.e. instances). The doors have some slight differences (maybe some are huge, some are tiny, some have bouncers, some let you bring your own costumes etc). But for the most part, it doesn’t really matter what door you enter the party through, as all doors open into the same common space.

However, the door you choose does make you physically closer to one cluster of people than the rest of the party. That’s how I see the “local” filter. But if you’re just interested in getting into the party asap, just pick any instance and join.

This still isn’t a perfect analogy though – if a door shuts down, you don’t magically disappear from the party. But if an instance goes down, you do. Still, for the uninitiated, I feel like this is a sensible enough analogy.

Thank you so much. Across the Fediverse!

I think I’m going to stick to Lemmy and use Reddit only to promote Lemmy. I’ve been created a few new communities here and will plug them to Reddit users.

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Could you share any particular points that made you switch? I’m currently on Manjaro and I was thinking of switching to Fedora. But now I’ve started hearing good things about Debian…not sure how to proceed!

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No problems! I feel like you could look into coreboot, but I really don’t know much about it. FWIW, I’m personally optimistic that RISC-V, being both open-source and a real competitor to the chip cartels, might lead us to a world where we can yet again have modern hardware that’s truly privacy-respecting.

Until then, it’s libreboot. Still, FWIW, I personally use a linux laptop with coreboot on it, running an 11th Gen Intel i7. Hoping to libreboot an old ThinkPad I got my hands on soon, just as an experiment. The goal is to fully move to that one as a daily driver – we’ll see.

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My understanding is that you simply won’t be able to flash libreboot on a non-supported laptop. Bear in mind, ‘supported’ here actually means ‘a machine that happens not to have Intel Management Engine’.

To put it differently, Libreboot’s maintainer hasn’t consciously chosen supported hardware. It’s just that newer generations of Intel and AMD chips make it impossible to flash libreboot on them. For these machines, the closest you can get is flashing coreboot, which disables/ringfences the problematic, privacy-threatening firmware (Intel ME, in the case of Intel) but doesn’t eliminate it. Also, coreboot isn’t free software – libreboot was created as an alternative that’s truly free (as in freedom, not beer, as the saying goes).

This is also why libreboot-compatible laptops tend to be really old Thinkpads and Chromebooks from between 2008-2012ish. If you want a more modern laptop, then I’d suggest coreboot, with the main caveat that strictly speaking, coreboot doesn’t comprehensively eliminate the privacy problem the way libreboot does, and that it’s also not free software.

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