@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk
Post #2392318
2026-03-21 14:49 UTC
@lori @Khrys@mamot.fr i've recently been thinking about — and this is beyond my skills, so i should really say "fantasising about" — some sort of common retrocomputing platform, maybe based on an esp32 or something, which is completely incompatible with commercial computers and so can't be used commercially.
but it would also be missing all the spy-firmware (minix in the cpu, tiny computers in usb plugs etc). maybe we could start our own replacement for the internet!
… yeah, right. sorry.
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@0x0@hachyderm.io 2026-03-22 11:12
@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk Open hardware would be incompatible with modern day commercial aspirations. Coupled with FOSS of course. #ESP32 is more for IoT than regular computing – but you can use it for #meshcore (and other #LoRa-based projects), wish is an interesting, albeight very basic, alternative to common (controlled) networks. @lori @Khrys@mamot.fr