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There is FOSS alternatives out there like Revolt or just plain old IRC which is good enough imo. The Discord bullshit is so annoying.
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Backdoors in the CPU microcode, backdoors in the proprietary firmware of your motherboard / hard drives, backdoor through Intel Management Engine / AMD PSP. They’re all hardware level backdoors that can’t easily be disabled / replaced on newer systems.
There are only a select few of systems out their that can run a fully free BIOS with no IME, but those systems are about 15+ years old and on 32-bit platform. In terms of freedom, we’re fucked. Even if you do switch to GNU/Linux, you’re still not entirely free.
1·11 months agoComputer Jesus has entered the chat
Oh I’m already using AUTOMATIC1111 on this computer with my RTX 2080 SUPER (using Debian GNU/Linux). It runs really good on it actually, I’m only using 8GB of VRAM too, It takes like 5-7 seconds to generate images, truly amazing stuff. I may be able to push out a video today or tomorrow, the computer can run just fine even with this current RAM issue.
I was just playing GTA V like 10 minutes ago and it ran well like 50-70FPS (sometimes drops to 40-45FPS depening on the area) on max settings 1440p, barely any stutters. I can run basically everything I need on it with Libreboot now. I’m selling off my main motherboard right now.
The only thing I can’t seem to get running is local LLMs because my Xeon processor is AVX-only and not AVX2. I was trying to use GPT4All, I was able to use the UI and try to download a model, but aftering it finished downloading it crashes and I can’t open it again. As far as I looked into it, its just the current limitation with my processor.
In the future I may start looking into using Dasharo firmware with the MSI Z690-A DDR5 since I want to use new models like Mixtral 8x7B, I heard it was really good. The older motherboard I’m using here is the Dell Precision T1650 motherboard from 2012, its only 32GB of RAM max, and newer models like Mixtral need up to 64GB of RAM.
I couldn’t check the exact score of how much open-source code there is on here, I did have to inject blobs / vendor firmware into the libreboot.rom file. It should probably be more open than newer motherboards, considering its older, along with Libreboots blob reduction policy.
The only small problem I’m facing right now is for some reason I have to leave this computer on for like an hour to make my games run better. I open Steam and I guess just let the Vulkan shaders process in the background.
Also, I tried running NVIDIAs open source drivers and it didn’t work for me. I couldn’t passthrough my GPU to my VM (using KVM hypervisor) either. Maybe, this is just due to me using NVIDIAs full proprietary drivers or maybe I just suck lol I would like more people to try this out though.
Hopefully one day we can achieve even more freedom with better hardware, maybe with hardware like RISC-V =)
I have not run the whole test yet, I will do that. Thank you for the advice!
Well, this build is specifically for gaming with Libreboot so due to the limitations with the motherboard I’m stuck using the Xeon processor. Its not bad tbh runs everything well.
This is actually a new build I just made with a Libreboot motherboard. I’m trying to turn it into a gaming computer, it ran GTA V at 70-80FPS, all high settings, at 1440p. It was working flawlessly, and for some reason now its not I suppose due to the RAM.
But even with this RAM, in the beginning it was working just fine until yesterday I started noticing more stuttering. Vulkan shaders might be interfering, but I did enable them to process in the background and to save the cache but nope, still stuttering.
I was hoping to do a benchmark video for people tonight but I’ll have to wait until later next week.
Oh wow I didn’t know that. They’re from Crucial / Micron, also its DDR3L ECC RAM (8GB x 4) so hopefully they’ll accept. Thank you for the information!
I dislike the way you type.