| 31 Dec 2025 |
 alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | my laptop needs proprietary intel drivers anyway for bluetooth & wifi | 15:21:07 |
 Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | why 😭 | 15:21:14 |
 K900 | What? | 15:21:30 |
| alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | there are apparently wifi cards that support open source drivers like athena or smth but i havent yet had the money to buy one | 15:21:31 |
| K900 | Does what though | 15:21:35 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | C++ coroutines | 15:21:49 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | in the kernel | 15:21:53 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | or idk what was that blog post about | 15:21:58 |
| K900 | No, that's for consuming io_uring in userspace | 15:22:22 |
| K900 | The kernel is all C, no ++ | 15:22:25 |
| K900 | No, open source firmware | 15:22:34 |
| K900 | Which is a whole other can of worms | 15:22:37 |
| K900 | There is no proprietary drivers in the mainline kernel, even by the GNU definition | 15:22:48 |
| alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | right | 15:22:56 |
| K900 | And getting open firmware on radio anything is absolute hell because you have to deal with regulation | 15:23:10 |
| K900 | And the only wifi card that has open firmware is ath9k, an 11n chip from the time 11n was relevant | 15:23:24 |
| K900 | And running said firmware is probably illegal in your jurisdiction | 15:23:34 |
| K900 | But also the FSF's entire stance on firmware is absolutely unhinged | 15:23:48 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | anyways, my HRT prescription arriving next week
kinda offtopic but Lix is basically the trans lesbian Nix soooo
| 15:23:46 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | ? | 15:23:48 |
| K900 | Which makes linux-libre unhinged by extnesion | 15:23:56 |
| K900 | * Which makes linux-libre unhinged by extension | 15:23:57 |
| K900 | Because it's not certified | 15:24:10 |
| alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | since the latest coreboot release there is now support for the snapdragon X series, i've been wanting to get one because 12 ARM cores on open source firmware would be cool as heck | 15:24:11 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | is this some FSF firmware stuff again or just proprietary? | 15:24:16 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | ah | 15:24:20 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | oooo | 15:24:35 |
| alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | i'm aware, am in the process of getting a amateur radio call sign assigned | 15:24:44 |
| Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | btw, does LORAWAN need that? | 15:25:11 |
 Alice | we love our unhinged RSFSF stances /hj | 15:25:29 |
