| 31 Dec 2025 |
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 |
K900 | That's still going to run off of Qualcomm's proprietary-as-hell stage 1 | 15:25:38 |
alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | what? :D | 15:25:53 |
K900 | Which they will never let you touch because their system is not designed for that | 15:26:08 |
K900 | You don't need a license to run a LoRA network, you need a license to make hardware | 15:26:12 |
alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | wehhh that's so mean | 15:26:26 |
K900 | There's a giant chunk of early boot proprietary firmware that every Qualcomm device runs before it boots anything user specified | 15:26:38 |
Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | ah | 15:26:40 |
K900 | There's an entire EDK2 in there | 15:26:43 |
K900 | It's extremely fun | 15:26:52 |
alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | 👀 | 15:27:00 |
K900 | (not) | 15:27:10 |
Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | who even owns Qualcomm nowadays | 15:27:10 |
alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | it does sound fun to poke at and reverse engineer tho | 15:27:19 |
Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | what about reverse engineering that | 15:27:26 |
K900 | No one | 15:27:27 |
K900 | Qualcomm owns Qualcomm | 15:27:28 |
Sofie 🏳️⚧️ (she/her) | oh. you had the same idea 😭 | 15:27:35 |
K900 | It's pretty well documented | 15:27:38 |
K900 | It's also signed and non-replaceable | 15:27:49 |
alina arielle amelie🏳️⚧️🐾 | i've been thinking about getting a lattice ecp5 risc-v fpga for analogue amateur radio control | 15:28:17 |