It is an open source architecture but it doesn’t prevent the OEM from adding anything to it to prevent user from doing anything on it. They can add TPM, locked bootloader with fixed signing key stored on board. They can add microprocessor inaccessible to anyone but OEM. They can add spyware, malware. All this without any need for declaring it or need to make it open source.

The only change RISC V brings is there is no need to pay for a hardware architecture, benefitting the manufacturer. Rather than bringing freedom to the user.

Not necessarily

Had a kernel update which couldn’t read a specific HDD controller chip. Since then I always install LTS version along with regular just for booting up if the kernel upgrade fails.

Other than your PC or Mac spying on you, you are in no danger.

Maybe we will get an extension

I can’t fathom how do you mean Rust is not maintainable. If anything for a new programmer C code is much more mind boggling than Rust.

Writing in Rust might make it much more maintainable.

Reading the whole thread seemed like a boomer crying that young people are ruin8ng stuff by adding new fangled stuff to their perfect utopian bloat.

This news along with the news of WiFi driver maintainer stepping down, feels like there won’t be any new blood in Linux kernel development except for corporate funded developers.

One of the part that gave me random reboots was the PSU. It used to drop voltage randomly, affecting random components. After changing that it was rock solid.

If you carry the same PSU from ur older server maybe try changing it.

If you are on a tight budget

Not for tight budgets

Sorry i didn’t read the whole statement

That’s true for a petrol or a diesel vehicle too.

Nice to be of your help.

How’s OpenWRT to use and install. Though pretty experienced with linux. This is the first time trying to do the hardcore networking stuff.

I read on OPNSense guide it needs 2gb ram to run, it would be difficult to even get a 1gb ram for it. Not to say expensive too.

I have an old Raspberry Pi as PiHole and another Pihole running on as a virtual machine. I have an ryzen PC running as a NAS and Jellyfin.

I was trying to get a half decent PC to make a firewall router out of.

Thanks i was planning to put OpenWRT or DD WRT on it ditching Windows XP

One laptop, 2 ssd, 4 Proxmox lxcs, 3 docker containers, 2 routers.

More important would be to have another device where you can go to internet to google or to download binaries for the time if you get stuck.

My first time I couldn’t connect to internet because I was missing firmware for the laptop. I had to use the computer at my work to troubleshoot it and download the necessary package to get it working. That took a lot of days.

I use Arch BTW…

Joking aside I use Arch on my desktop, Raspbian on RPi1, Debian on homeserver and VMs.

Reading the blog however it feels they are going to miss the deadline of May 2024.

Edit: Sorry I miss remembered it as March 2024. Still I am sceptical.

Cryptpad is not an alternative, it can’t edit odt or doc format. You can export to doc format. The is no support for odp format even export.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/QEMU#SPICE