diff --git a/blog/gnu-your-parent-2022-02-10.markdown b/blog/gnu-your-parent-2022-02-10.markdown index 06dbb9d..9537a39 100644 --- a/blog/gnu-your-parent-2022-02-10.markdown +++ b/blog/gnu-your-parent-2022-02-10.markdown @@ -122,23 +122,6 @@ potentially untrustable underground software den instead of something that can be properly handled upstream without having to place trust in too many places.](conversation://Cadey/angy) -[That hardware is defective by design and you shouldn't use -it.](conversation://Numa/delet) - -[Wow, thanks, I'm cured. My wifi card magically stopped existing and now -everything is happy unicorns farting put rainbows that spawn free puppies and -everything is saved forever.

Again, that doesn't help me with the -situation that my wifi card doesn't work and I as a user want it to even though -making it work will require proprietary firmware. This shit is how you get -things like the "GPL condom" in the Purism Librem phone, where all the -proprietary firmware is rigged to be loaded automagically in hardware instead of -sofware. This limits your ability to tinker with or modify the firmware _even if -there are legitimate reasons such as critical updates_. So by making the -hardware work with fully free software you have limited the ability to actually -improve the state of the world even with the proprietary firmware the -manufacturer gives you.](conversation://Cadey/angy) - - [That hardware is defective by design and you shouldn't use it.](conversation://Numa/delet)