If you're going to troll, could you please at least say something semi-believable?

Just because you hate systemd doesn't mean he's trolling.

I wasn't projecting, and you don't exempt the entirety of the conservative world.

Cause a conservative would never advocate for censorship when it served their purposes, would they?

Oh look, someone stuffing words into the mouths of others!

If only it hadn't been crippled with 256MB of DRAM. Easily the most frustrating part was the system locking up in the browser as you brought it out of sleep and it started paging like mad to the eMMC.

Vendors, including Google, need to realize this and figure out some way to do long term support for at least five years if not more.

So easy to say, so hard to actually do. With the wide performance gulf between a 2011 device and a 2015 device, optimization would be hell.

Toss in vendors fucking around with closed source drivers, locking you into specific kernels, and Google's own out-of-tree changes that make it virtually impossible to use upstream trees, and it becomes harder.

On top of that, add that handset vendors crank out dozens of models in a single year and, as soon as that product is done, the team is moved rapidly to the next project and you're lucky to get support for things shipping 3 months from any given point.

Heck I know plenty of companies that run ten year old PCs (or older since I know a few places run DOS still in their machine shops)

And in that case you're on your own and should be. A PC from 2005/2006, or running DOS, is almost entirely unsupported now except by virtue of the 30+ year x86 legacy. You can't reasonably expect new drivers for nForce 4 chipsets or what not, let alone fixes.

This need to constantly push 'new' is unsustainable for a large part of their user base.

And at some point you have to assume responsibility for things beyond their warranty period if you wish to continue using them. Most of the time this isn't a problem, but things fall by the wayside and become too old to justify support for.

Of course, this is why Free Software is so great, and why binary-only drivers are crap. All those Galaxy Nexus users wouldn't be up shit creek if not for TI shipping only binary blobs then exiting the business and taking their drivers with them.

I see the dismissal and accusations of cherry picking are here already. The point readily highlighted by their data is that people seek out and shit on people based on race and gender. It's unlikely the A/B testing the GP cited has been done, as it'd be difficult and is somewhat outside the scope of a newspaper.

Or boot using UEFI, which probably breaks this. Toss in Secure Boot, and even if they wrote a UEFI bootloader they wouldn't be able to intercept the boot process.

Cue idiots who make inaccurate comments about UEFI and betray their technical ignorance.

Sony already does this. Street Fighter V is cross-platform play between PC and PS4.

Would you dare try to substantiate your suspicions? Or is this just an idle dismissal?

Well, that and it depends on how quiet the company responsible can keep the local government and media. Given how subservient Texas tends to be towards petrochemical companies, I'm not surprised they've managed to keep it on the down low.

I know, right?! When similar things happen naturally, human fuckups should obviously be ignored and dismissed!

You don't have to compile the thing. They produce a large number of pre-built images ready to go for a large number of routers.

Well that's nice for you. Do you normally go into topics and say "I don't care about this, I don't see why anyone would?"

Signed firmware isn't bad since generally firmware can't be changed.

Firmware is basically just another word for "software that runs on a peripheral processor." It can almost always be changed. Technically the Android install on your smartphone is "firmware" and the broken router software on most cheap routers is "firmware." Typically both can be replaced with 3rd party builds - unless the firmware is signed, in which case you're fucked if there's something wrong with it.

The caveat with this, of course, is we have no way of knowing what is in this firmware.

Firmware doesn't need to be signed but Nvidia is probably doing this for security reasons.

That's typically the main reason one signs firmware. Unfortunately, when that signing is used by morons who abandon their products shortly after release, the greatest threat comes from the vendor, since they leave you open to vulnerabilities down the line.

None of that necessarily applies to Nvidia GPUs, but I take particular interest in the implications of software/firmware signing and its impact on Free Software and user freedoms.