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[–] [email protected] 58 points 2 months ago (23 children)

This board also has soldered memory and uses MicroSD cards and eMMC for storage, both of which are limitations of the processor.

Ah, yeah, hard no from me dog. Can we get one of the new Snapdragons tho? Please?

[–] [email protected] 120 points 2 months ago (18 children)

Qualcomm and Broadcom are the two biggest reasons you don't own your devices any more. That is the last option anyone that cares about ownership should care about. You should expect an orphaned kernel just like all their other mobile garbage. Qualcomm is like the Satan of hardware manufacturers. The world would be a much better place if Qualcomm and Broadcom were not in it at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (11 children)

What did they do ? I thought all processor are following standards hence I am running Linux on my Intel or AMD CPU.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Both Intel and AMD invest a lot into open source drivers, firmware and userspace applications, but also due to the nature of X86_64's UEFI, a lot of the proprietary crap is loaded in ROM on the motherboard, and as microcode.

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