#asknostr is there any foss/oshw computer/laptop available on the market?

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https://frame.work/ca/en has a good reputation.

Being a shameless cheapskate, I once built my own 10.1" laptop from a Raspberry Pi 3 with a cardboard box for a case. The Pi 3 just didn't have enough grunt, but I reckon a 5 might.

WTH is an ai max processor?

A scam, I expect :p

lol

None of those are foss

They're poss (p for partly)

System76 I think.

Still not foss

No, essential components like the GPU always rely on proprietary shit, consumer electronics are never fully open source

Never fully, but they are more and less free/libre. Support those vendors who are moving in the right direction.

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Not purely so, but the list at https://doc.coreboot.org/distributions.html#hardware-shipping-with-coreboot is a good start.

What do you think about this?

https://milkv.io/jupiter

I don't know enough about it. If I understand correctly, the RISC-V instruction set architecture is free/libre but that is separate from particular implementations, meaning actual chips and their designs. I don't know enough about how that distinction plays out or which manufacturers produce free/libre stuff and which don't. I would look at https://libreboot.org/news/policy.html to try to learn more. Somehow I recall hearing about very large and proprietary binary blobs used to boot RISC-V but I cannot quickly find it. So maybe it's fine, maybe not.

I appreciate your input thank you