@thevhswizard TBF, though, if your question is something like "how do I make it so my new car (or tv, or fridge) doesn't spy on me?" many of the responses will be "never buy new stuff, I will keep my 1976 Dodge Aspen running for the rest of time to avoid 21st century techbro stuff." Which, I mean, is fair enough, but fails to answer the question.
Cf: questions about non-FOSS computing.
@Plumbert @thevhswizard Never make a FOSS evangelist question their computer's firmware... and the firmware of the various tiny computers inside that big computer.
Jun 19, 2026, 11:26 PM@ozzelot computers all the way down...
Jun 20, 2026, 7:44 AM@ozzelot one of my funnier discoveries was that apple's touchscreen microcontroller appears to run ARM32 code in big endian
@jn
because why the hell wouldn't it
although it not being an 8051 is sort of surprising :D
Or the "LET ME TELL YOU HOW TO JAILBREAK YOUR NEW WASHER" response
Jun 19, 2026, 11:33 PM@thevhswizard @Plumbert or the answer would be this ;)
@jomo Exactly the conversation I was thinking about :)