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[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

This is patently false. As of now my Dell laptop doesn't use any proprietary blobs to speak of.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Even if that's true, that's a different computer.

[–] CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right. This laptop will be even more open. I'm not getting it.....

[–] bilb@lem.monster 5 points 1 year ago

I see what you're saying now. Which dell laptop is it, by the way?

I suspect what people are assuming is that your laptop might have some closed source firmware or BIOS, and I assume what System76 is saying is that this won't be true on their Virgo laptop.

I'm a framework guy myself, at least so far.

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