• kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      3 hours ago

      Agreed, OSS purity is silly. I am running an open source client (Thunder) to this open source service on my Pixel 9 running GraphineOS, the low level firmware is still absolutely proprietary.

      • TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        edit-2
        50 minutes ago

        Actually, to be clear, I don’t think FOSS purity is bad. I just mean that denigrating what others are doing because they’re using something non-free while they’re making steps in the right direction is dumb and counterproductive.

        To my mind, FOSS is the only way forward for a healthy, functioning society, and the fact that so much of our digital landscape is being gradually replaced with it is to me evidence of that. I think the end goal should always be pure FOSS, but that doesn’t (necessarily) mean immediately jumping to all FOSS; it just means taking steps to cut out proprietary software wherever you reasonably can.

    • herrvogel@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      2 hours ago

      No. You either go full Stallman and inject Gentoo directly into your aorta, or you might as well be deep throating Satya Nutella while bouncing on Tim Apple’s lap. Filthy casual.

      • kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        37 minutes ago

        Noob, I snort pure Colombian and run LFS directly in my brain using the power of cryptic dreams and messages handed down to me directly by Lord RMS