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1. p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 05:44:35 EST p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵

   Passed a booth at PyCon for the AstroHaus Freewrite, a Kickstarter-backed "distraction-free writing tool" combining a small e-ink screen with a mechanical keyboard in a fixed plastic shell for a whopping $550.

   I inquired about the firmware.

   "Actually it runs Debian!" said the dude.

   "Oh! So I could install ssh and..."

   "No," he said incredulously, "we're not going to give people root!"

   TFW name-dropping one of the most freedom-focused OSes to sell a device that restricts those same freedoms.

   1. p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵ (pho4cexa@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Sunday, 04-Feb-2018 06:00:35 EST p̸h̴o̸⁴c̵e̴ₓa̵

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      But just then a bro wandered past and chuckled, "Ha ha, nothing's unbreakable! Some clever hacker will root it eventually!"

      Which was even worse.

      He could have backed me up and said "the right to repair and tinker is important,"
      but instead he undermined me,
      giving this dude a pass for tivoizing as hard as he could,
      happily accepting corporate control as a matter of course,
      because hackers are ✨magic✨.

      Just because a lot of stuff has been hacked doesn't mean it's easy, or inevitable.

   2. Dr. Equivalent the Incredible (drequivalent@mastodonsocial.ru)'s status on Monday, 05-Feb-2018 11:12:57 EST Dr. Equivalent the Incredible

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      @pho4cexa Like, what the actual fuck...