Everything they do is open source, artificially holding back features doesn’t make sense.

Yeah, I don’t think that’s generally a problem. But modern firmware for some hardware is very complex and would be nice to be open.

It’s extremely easy to have a fully featured desktop that is open source software only.

Open hardware is hard though.

Some call that “source available” and not open source.

I think they just mean they should have control over the modem. They are all locked down and proprietary with known backdoors throughout history, effectively bypassing any OS level security.

On some distros its packaged, trivial. On others its not and annoying. How well it works depends on the exact usage.

They are older, more system level projects. See libera and OFTC.

To counter your experience Ive only seen emulators use Discord.

It’s just a minor convenience, not sure why that’s confusing.

I can set the temperature from anywhere, that’s nice.

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