Technology

I'd make an argument for the opposite if we're talking about the general field. The major OEMs are going head first into enshittification, while other companies are building for more open ecosystems.

For anyone looking for a list of manufacturers intentionally trying to make their hardware more compatible with open ecosystems:

• Framework
• System76
• ASRock
• Minisforum
• Slimbook (they make the KDE branded laptop)
• MNT
• GL.iNet (routers only so far)
• Penguin
• Supermicro
• Star Labs
• Pine
• Clevo

I'm sure there are others, but these are the ones that are deliberately building intentionally FOR mass compatibility, unlike HP, Dell, Lenovo, ASUS...etc.

This is not to say there aren't some models from the major manufacturer product lines that aren't widely compatible, but their main focus is not those products.

I thought he was talking about locked-down bootloaders or something. Because that's a real concern to me.

Can someone tell Scott that they added the driver for his laptop on November 29th? Almost a month before he made this post.

Further, from some light reading on the subject after searching around it sounds like since most stuff is moving to NVMe drives, Intel is indeed slowly removing ACHI from newer devices, which does mean you need those IRST drivers to boot and recognize disks.

I think it's less companies trying to fuck us over and a hiccup in the slow but steady adoption and adaptation of new technologies.

EDIT:

Here's the Intel Rapid Store Technology driver for the other PC he pointed out, too. This one was added in November 2023.

This seems like it's a non-issue and maybe this guy just doesn't know what the IRST acronym stands for?

Much ado about literally nothing. This is literally based on nothing but his own speculation based on his failure to find these drivers that literally exist and are available. Honestly should be removed as misinformation since both PCs he mentioned have IRST drivers available right now.

Slowly? No.

No, not slowly. They've been accelerating toward this.

That's why I think computers should be like in year 2000. Not because I'm some luddite, but because you can't increase complexity indefinitely without laws of the market changing. Today's general-purpose computer systems are so complex that they encourage behavior that wouldn't be competitive then, because then there were more choice and the industry was much easier to get into.

There are things one can live without.

Especially funny, because new cultural phenomena involving computing are as applicable today as they were in year 2000. What was added since then seems to be about, well, that amount of gaslighting, propaganda and primate instinct abuse made real by centralized social media, and about everyone carrying surveillance devices.

Not everything is progress, some things are just experience. I think wisdom may be in losing that.

This also won't be unprecedented, supersonic passenger airliners are not operated today, and creation of an actual space colony seems much further than it was even 20 years ago, and unification of the Earth into one huge federated state has not happened after Cold War ending, and we don't carry around devices with nuclear batteries.

Such airliners were in operation. Such a colony was being seriously devised. Such a political project ... I guess, was more of a propaganda device both on the Western and on the Soviet sides, but many things done and attempted hint that it wasn't all dreams. Nuclear batteries exist.

So. Computers produced in a few enormous God level foundries, with technology far harder to achieve than nuclear shield, centralized to a few companies, with processes approaching theoretical physical limitations, being the necessary element of our daily lives. I don't think that's a good idea by any measure, if you forget what you know about our world and just read this sentence and imagine some alternative one.

Dell blocking the BIOS is a bit slim to claim "PC hardware companies", but they definitely are. HP's crap too in this regard.

Cramming more and more stuff into a SOC leads to this for sure but it's hardly the only factor. Built-in obsolescence also plays a heavy role.

Oh man he's going to be so pissed when he finds out what Intel have been doing for 50 years

This is why I just bought two framework laptops. They're doing the exact opposite.

Yes, Yes, Yes & Yes

Why is this entire Lemmy community just weird leading-title BS articles about nothing?

I think this is pretty much a non-issue. If the Windows installer is broken, that's not necessarily Dell's fault. And you could just install a different OS with NVMe support.. I've stopped switching everything to "legacy" and AHCI a long time ago...