If I had a YeeLong-8133 I would cuddle with it every night before going to sleep.
If I had a YeeLong-8133 I would code in MIPS64 assembly every day.
If I had a YeeLong-8133 I would print out x86 assembly listings on toilet paper and wipe my anus with them.
We're all waiting, Lemote. I'm not buying any other laptop; I demand a free open-source non-treacherous BIOS.
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Anonymous2012-07-13 13:42
Quad dick laptop
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Anonymous2012-07-13 13:49
>>78 If I had a YeeLong-8133 I would cuddle with it every night before going to sleep.
*cough*
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Anonymous2012-07-13 15:17
Disregard >>78-fag, Lemote, and keep fuckin' that chicken!
Tegra is the cancer that is killing freedom. Lemote is the cure.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 16:37
>>101
You seem to be unable to distinguish between freedom and the tantrum of a spoiled little brat.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 16:41
>>102
If the manufacturer doesn't supply the required information to rewrite the totality of the firmware as well as a running operating system, then it's not freedom. Fuck you, faggot.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:15
>>103
What will you demand next? The code source of the firmware for the robot building your computer case? Along with all building plans of those robots? An access pass to the plant and the right to fire a worker if he's unable to achieve your criteria of quality control? The right to use Steve Ballmer's private bathroom and to have your dick sucked by his daughter?
Let engineers and business men do their job. Things are not manufactured to make the fairy tales of a very scarce minority of procrastinating NEETS come true. You have totally lost grip with reality.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:18
>>104
Cool slippery slope, bro. No, all I demand is to be in full control of the general-purpose computation device that I fucking bought with my fucking money. I am the owner of it, it should obey me and none other. Not very complicated. Fuck you and die.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:26
>>103
Seriously, look at you. You're literaly crying because you want a Chinese company to hurry and manufacture your toy. You could use nothing more than a pen and a piece of paper to prove some serious computation. You could even write in the sand with a stick of wood, I guess.
You don't want to compute. You want to play with your electronic toys no matter how hard your mother had to work to afford them.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:34
>>105
You are granted the use of many implementations of turing-complete programming languages with your computer. That's all you really need. But you prefer to dream about pimping a microprocessor - that you couldn't built alone - with a screwdriver and a hammer.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:37
>>106-107
I fucking HATE YOU FUCK OFF AND DIE YOU ASDFLJSADKFHAJSDGHFSJGHSFDJGHSD FA UCK OYU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FAGGOT F UC KYOU FAND DIE FUCK YOU
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:39
>>106
DIE FAGGOT DIE$ASDLF SKAD JSKJ AFSDIFCLKO JSA DKFSADJF KJSDKF SJAKF JF I FUCKING HHATE YOU FUCK OYU AND DIE
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:43
You want your own toys? Why don't you use some hundred millionths of dollars to hire engineers, build a plant and produce them. Some totally cool open source hardware that doesn't suck. Hey!
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:43
DIE FAGGOTS DIE I HATE YOU
>>106
It's my money you piece of shit. I want to buy a device that doesn't spy on me. It's my fucking right. Fuck you and die.
>>107
A computer with a locked bootloader running Windows qualifies as being able to run turing-complete computation since it has a JavaScript interpreter and a text editor. But that won't give me the control over the fucking computer, and everyone will hack into my digital anus through various backdoors left by Microsoft and see everything I do. Fuck you.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:45
>>110
I don't care about the hardware to be open-source, only the firmware. Cool strawman bro.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:46
Investing millions of dollars to develop a product doesn't give you the right to spy on your customers, fagshit.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 17:49
>>113
Oh, I see... But that must be the illuminati. That's what they do. They're syping on us with silicium engraved backdoors.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 18:09
>>114
You're American, you never knew what privacy was in the first place anyway.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 18:20
>>115
You're not American, you never knew what freedom was in the first place anyway.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 19:41
>>104
Please don't confuse hardware and software. We need access to the software and the rights to share it with our friends. It is senseless to modify hardware because it is completely impractical to change it once it exists.
>>106,107
The issue is about the rights of the machine owners. A machine should obey its owner, if not, it is designed to obey other interests. This cannot happen when software is not free.
>>110
We can own our own hardware if we had the right to tinker with software. Hardware is impractical to modify. Software is practical to change. Users who cannot modify their software is a matter of policy of the vendors to restrict the users. There is no other reason why users should be restricted access to the software.
>>117
And you will be able to do just that! if you buy a development machine and join a developer program, general purpose computer should not be sold the masses, it's an aberration and they're happy with a facebook machines anyway.
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Anonymous2012-07-16 21:05
>>119
You are wrong. Reality shows that people aren't completely content with stock machines as delivered by the vendors. If this was so, the iphone cracking scene wouldn't be so large; people wouldn't bother hacking their Android phones to do more things; systems like the Raspberry Pi wouldn't be so wildly popular.
The fact is, people know computers are capable of many things and that software extends existing capabilities. They may not have the skills to change their systems and they don't need any! All people really need is the freedom to visit people who do have the skills. This means being able to share knowledge freely with the implied understanding that hardware vendors do not interfere with them. A development program that controls society from sharing knowledge is anti-ethical to such freedom.