Full disclosure: I sometimes have to use some software and ofc hardware that is not open source. It's the intention behind this move that makes me lose respect.
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I mean, generally speaking, it's kind of hard to use everything open source because sometimes the software just doesn't exist or the hardware. Even I use non-open source software and hardware.
I've always really wanted to respect that company for being innovators in the space and doing things that I think are legitimately good for Bitcoin. But due to the way they act on several social media platforms and their overall business practices like this that make me unable to advocate for them.
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Honest question, albeit slightly off topic: If you could buy a very expensive laptop with an open source CPU, would you be interested?
MNT's FPGA-based CPU caught my attention a while back, and I don't have any income, so $1600-2600 for just the CPU is steep for my blood, but I'm curious to get your take.
More info here: https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2022-09-29-rkx7-showcase.html
Absofuckinglutely. But ro be real, daily driving would come down to reasonable performance vs pain in the ass compatability/performance issues. Checking it out now 🤙🔥
you should distinguish people from services, evaluate work, not opinions