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Matt "msw" Wilson<p>The latest proprietary <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/VSCode" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>VSCode</span></a> extension that no longer works in non-Microsoft builds of the MIT licensed VS Code source code appears to be C and C++ support.</p><p>Your regular reminder: every day more of VSCode functionality is proprietary, and increasingly <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FOSS</span></a> hostile.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/FreeeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FreeeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OSS</span></a></p><p><a href="https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/issues/2300" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/VSCodium/vscodium/i</span><span class="invisible">ssues/2300</span></a></p>
Luis Guzman<p>Thinking on buying a Rock Pi4 with SOC RK3399, as it may be able to boot <a href="https://toot.community/tags/Trisquel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trisquel</span></a> on <a href="https://toot.community/tags/ARM64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ARM64</span></a></p><p>Sadly I don't see anything beyond 4GB of RAM as I'd love to have 8GB for heavy testing.</p><p>Any ideas?</p><p><a href="https://toot.community/tags/GNU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GNU</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/FreeeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeeSoftware</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/uboot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uboot</span></a> <a href="https://toot.community/tags/linuxlibre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>linuxlibre</span></a></p>
NiceMicro<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://freesoftwareextremist.com/users/Suiseiseki" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Suiseiseki</span></a></span> In my opinion, using software as a private person on your personal computer is a bit different than using a school or corporation owned computer, because as especially as a privately owned enterprise, you outsource many things to trusted third parties.</p><p>But sure, in the case of a personal computer and consumer software, I agree with you, that the "special cases" I mentioned are actually problematic and need to be resolved.</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/FreeeSoftware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeeSoftware</span></a></p>