Only if they make changes/improvements to the code. If it’s a library that is used then no, AFAIK you don’t need to. If everyone using GPL code had to make their entire project FOSS then TPLink and DLink wouldn’t have any market share. The only reason OpenWRT exists is because Linksys was forced to open up their code because they had illegally refrained from opensourcing their code, which was a great positive for the community

I can’t believe professional developers choose MIT because they can’t be arsed to look at the license choices

Improvements would be upstreamed. Not with MIT

They are maliciously harming the community. They need to be named and shamed. I still seethe at OpenBSD using it. Why is it so hard for them to understand? Why do they want to give away their work for the taking to corporations who just want to make money off of their backs?

“apolitical” tech-bros who are mostly just interested in their six figure paychecks and fancy toys.

This, I understand.

laissez-faire “libertarians” who are ideologically opposed to the restrictions in the GPL

This, I do not. Apologies for my tone in the next paragraph but I’m really pissed off (not directed at you):

WHAT RESTRICTIONS??? IF YOU LOT HAD EVEN A SHRED OF SYMPATHY FOR THE COMMUNITY YOU WOULD HAVE BOYCOTTED THE MIT AND APACHE LICENSE BY NOW. THIS IS EQUIVALENT TO HANDING CORPORATIONS YOUR WORK AND BEGGING THEM TO SCREW OVER YOUR WORK AND THE FOSS COMMUNITY.

I feel a bit better but not by much. This makes me vomit.

Let’s hope Debian fits you. I had to change to an Intel WiFi card but everything else worked OOTB for me on my laptop

Obligatory: you’re not running deepseek 1.5B. You’re running some other distilled model which was finetuned by the deepseek folks

Spend $500, buy a beefy used GPU and run Whisper + Mistral small. It’ll be a bit slow but now you can maintain your privacy on your own hardware! Best of both worlds.

Debian stable + XFCE for me. Missing newer packages though. I’m interested in what problems you had with Fedora

Cons: no chance of an unlocked bootloader in the US

I see. Is there a way I can use regular expressions to search? I.e. “*SUP236*”?

Am I a loser if I stick to POSIX?

TBH if you’re OK with 12TB then shucking drives can be a good deal for TB/pound. 12TB usually guarantees the IronWolf/Exos/Red Pro drives

In theory that shouldn’t be possible unless the app runs as root. Although I’m sure somebody out there has a zero day for it. Yeah I don’t know, I don’t give any application permission to use location services, and the ones like maps I set it to “Ask me every time”. I hope that’s good enough for now

I’ve settled for using Thunderbird for POP + Recoll for search. I can’t believe how good Recoll is; in my opinion this is even better than Gmail’s search in their Web GUI. I will be using Recoll for a lot more things now, but my immediate need for search has been fixed for now. Though running Thunderbird just for downloading emails does seem a bit overkill. We’ll see

If I don’t give them permissions to use Bluetooth and cut off their access to WiFi (VPN based firewall), is this threat prevented or am I a fool?

How has your experience been with Mutt? I’ve heard about neomutt from a lot of people but I’m honestly a bit intimidated to move to a completely CLI-based email client especially because it’s another configuration file which I’ll need to be mindful of

Can you name some distros which are FOSS only and would whine if I were to attempt non-FOSS software installs? Debian now bundles non-free software by default (it’s an opt-out now instead of opt-in)

Just coming back to say that I’m loving recoll. I’ve set up Thunderbird to download everything with POP and I’ve pointed recoll at the profile directory. Since Recoll also seems to be able to read PDFs, it is giving me amazing results at blazing speeds. Honestly if there was a decent application to just pull down email with POP I probably wouldn’t even open thunderbird other than to reply to stuff

It sucks that other ROMs are not as up to par in terms of security. That and the US doesn’t have any other options either. Europe has Xiaomi and Fairphone at least, if anybody wants variety