It's genuinely nice that you have fond memories of disassembling a George Foreman grill cluster, and also very sad that Sony killed Other OS, but that rugpull was pretty much inevitable once it was discovered that the PS3 running Linux was the finest Blu-Ray ripper man had conceived, which in turn was pretty much inevitable anyway since Sony gave access to the drive through the hypervisor.

As you say, statistically nobody is upgrading the RAM on their raspi, but it sure would be nice if customers who bought a bunch of these things could upgrade them to give them some life down the road. I've been for some reason continually surprised at how much rework capacity seems to be available, and I think they could reasonably contract that out.

While everything you said in your comment is true, we might and someday get an actually Open RISC-V implementation. It's legally possible, unlike ARM or x86. Perhaps we could instead have an outdated MIPS or SPARC, but why would we want that except for hobbyism? I honestly would like both, but only as toys.

From an end user point of view, I am using amd64. The OSS Linux drivers are just so good now there's almost no sense in using anything else at this moment if that's what you want to run. For once I regret buying an Nvidia GPU! But that's a whole other discussion.

Liz made a video showing Android working and saying they would release it soon, and then we never heard about it again.

That is, to be fair, one of the nicer things you've said to me. In fact though it's your usual grade of hyperbolic hooplah because this is one of the things I've ranted about the least, at least in this decade.

I have been working on keeping it around since they stopped using it when it became clear that they were the ultimate cucks. So yes, you are in this case 100% correct, coward. I was absolutely inspired by the maggots' use of cuck, but only indirectly because it only became good to me when it became embarrassing to them. Is that petty? Fuck 'em. Anything that beats them over the head with what they said has the potential, however slight, to get through their skulls.

I think the best way to do it is probably through a trusted distribution chain. This can also be manipulated in nasty ways so some people won't trust it, but in it's what I would trust most. They'd need to do some testing of products sourced anonymously from those distributors to verify that it was working to make it trustworthy. I'd prefer it be in-house but they could probably afford to pay someone reputable at this point.

I didn't look into any of them at all except Debian, where it was really weird. They rushed a decision without consulting the usual breadth of stakeholders. In their case the excuse was GNOME 3 but I'm not aware that anyone was especially clamoring for that.

Cops commit a lot of violent crimes. Factor that in, boot sucker.

You're eager for Google to be replaced by space Nazi internet? I don't think that's an upgrade.

"post-quantum transition"

At this point it's impossible to tell whether I'm done laughing or not.

I'm talking about the original Pis whose USB would crater with any non trivial traffic. Those boards were defective and they should have replaced them. That should have been the end of the raspi when they didn't.

A MiniPC with the specs of the one I bought for $300 is now $600.

This guy must be the rsilvergun AI troll. He has exactly the right unabomber level of connection to reality.

He is the troll. The call is coming from inside his head

At minimum people have a duty of self care. Why are they expecting others to do that job for them!

I am not even arguing we should not help in hard cases, from both a policy and an ethical standpoint. However suggesting the in-action someone makes us responsible for those outcomes is insane.

Treating you like you're the problem when they have bugs and design flaws is not ok.

I dropped Apple over their handling of the B&W G3 logic board faults. This is the same kind of shit.