we need laws that require companies to unlock boot loaders when they drop support, or at least provide the means to do so.
Or just always? I buy a device, I want full control over it.
That is not too much to ask.
it’s reliance farming. their value doesn’t lie in their static standings, it’s the affects their absence might incur. same going for apple, microsoft and very obviously for google. the more we rely on them, the more valuable they are. so, impaling a whole generation of digital natives with idea of cloud-reliance is the only way these companies can “stay relevant”. there are people using google docs and sheets as their go-to, regardless of privacy or reliance concerns. almost everyone on the internet uses youtube, creators fear going fully-independent, 'cause they know users only care about convenience and “free web”…
I have a pc so old that updates can’t be done anymore as the CPU is almost 30 now and the architecture isn’t supported anymore…
(its basically my personal Museum)
Damn! What architecture is it?
Its a iAPX 286, 16 Bit Microprocessor from 1982
Wow, that’s an old one. I guess your best bet is FreeDOS, then.
Nah i don’t use it for business, its just a “look i have a super old pc and it still runs Linux, get Linux” kind of thing
Not really true. Plenty of Linux distributions dropped 32bit support years ago and 32bit systems are a lot younger than 20 years (last ones were some Intel Atoms released around 2010).
I have Linux running strongly on two laptops from 2007. If I still had my old Dell from 2003, I’d bet I could get the latest Puppy Linux running on it. Maybe even something like Debian or Arch32, if I maxed out the RAM.
“32bit systems are a lot younger than 20 years”
I don’t follow. The i386 is almost 40 years old now. Can you elaborate?
it may have began 4 decades ago, but what matters is that only one decade ago new hardware was still being released.
And new processors stopped supporting x86-32 a decade ago?
When talking about Linux desktops it includes distros like Debian, who will support i386 until, at least 2028. Even some fast moving distros like OpenSuse Tumbleweed still support i386.
