Still looking for anything computer, video game, or technology related. I've largely had the misfortune of graduating in 9/2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and being unable to get the professional experience I need. Even training, certifications, apprenticeship schools, or the like can all help me. Open to on-the-job training.

In contrast, Librephone has only been aannounced this week, and it attempts to reverse engineer stuff related to device firmware and binary blobs. It's not the same as creating another Android distro, and any usable results won't be tied to Android, so they for example can be used to give better support for mobile non-Android Linux efforts.

I like that this project is trying to tackle something much more challenging that can't be done with just software: reverse engineering device firmware and binary blobs, the pieces of software that actually make hardware components interface with an OS. Understanding how this stuff functions is key to being able to write replacement software, so we may have less non-free software to deal with. I don't have any experience in trying to reverse engineer software, so the best I can do for now is cheer on from outside, unless I want to try my hands at this stuff later.

I also like that this project is not intending to produce an Android-based distro, but focusing more on reverse engineering. Although I read that the results are targeted at helping developers of Android-compatible OSes, the results can hopefully be used by non-Android [GNU/]Linux distros and perhaps other *nix stuff, like the BSD distros. The FSF (by way of developer Rob Savoye) recognizing that a project like this is not going to be quick, easy, or cheap, and is a long term effort is good, as that likely means this project isn't going to be easily abandoned just because of not being able to produce quick results.

I hope that this whole effort can eventually let us break free of the Apple-Google mobile device duopoly, as it sure is getting tiring for me to stick with one of these two companies for my mobile computing needs.

Preferably looking for entry positions, but can take any other available positions (I can be trained if necessary), as I have knowledge but am lacking in professional experience partially caused by graduating during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 9/2020.

Even now, it's still seeing activity, and even has their actions and wiki migrated over. If there are problems with having this link here, let me know.

Of course I know that computers don't stop working after just because Windows 10 went out of support. It's more of, for example, a severe vulnerability is discovered that has been fixed in later Windows versions but not 10 that may cause some people to panic. Maybe I'm being paranoid here, but I did raise some valid points, some of which coincidentally play into profit motives such as by encouraging the purchase of new hardware.

Plus code from Wine, the same project that is used for running Windows programs on Linux distros and macOS, and the basis for Valve's Proton tuned for running Windows only games on these operating systems.

We can say that ReactOS even benefits from some Proton development, although indirectly.

I wish I can be one of those young people who can be a worthy successor to Richard Stallman. I already am to a great extent, preferring FLOSS whenever possible (with an unfortunate exemption for video games, especially many PC and all console games).

My primary issue is now trying to find like people who are also into FLOSS as much as I am, and they're not as common as tech illiterate people are. Maybe someone can advise me on how I can get started (online or local around the Houston, TX area).

It does infuriate me when some people may use "freedom of speech" as their excuse for "You must let me have a place to speak", when that isn't even guaranteed in the first place.

* Jump Rope Challenge (summer 2020, released as a digital only game on the Nintendo eShop originally planned to be limited release, but staying up indefinitely for now)

* Fire Emblem Engage (January 2023, developed by Intelligent Systems, so considered more of a 2nd party game)

One more example that is 3rd party published but Nintendo owns copyright on:

* Cruis'n Blast (September 2021, a port of an arcade game developed by Raw Thrills, who both developed and published this port)

One more example but using the Unreal Engine:

* Yoshi's Crafted World (March 2019, developed by Good Feel)

Despite the examples I listed, almost none of these games are ones developed by one of Nintendo's internal studios (Jump Rope Challenge being the exception, but it was never intended to be one of their big games), but instead are developed by another studio not fully controlled by Nintendo. For their big games developed by them, they still use their own bespoke, proprietary engines, which is likely a sign that Nintendo doesn't trust outside engines like Godot, Unity, and Unreal well enough to commit to using them for such games. Outside developers making games to be published by Nintendo apparently have more freedom to use their preferred engines, including the mentioned outside ones.

* How will the Berne Convention from the early 1900s be dealt with? Since multiple countries signed onto that, how can that be overridden or be repelled so that at least some countries can start to reduce copyright terms? I know there's a few countries that didn't sign onto this convention, but they don't enough power to cause major reforms to occur.

* I wish I could do it all myself, but I don't have enough money to convince most politicians to support such reforms. There's got to be some way I can easily gather like people who support such reforms. It's even harder if this has to happen outside of the United States for any meaningful reform to start. Where could I possibly get started on gathering like people for this purpose?

* I know about fanworks (such as fanart, fanfiction, and fangames) and the like, but unfortunately, such things aren't tolerated when they're mixed with open-source software or anything with similar licensing. How come many of those can stay up while being legally dubious (by way of using characters and/or settings from pre-existing mass media without explicit permission from the original rightsholder(s)), but open-source software doesn't get that same pass, even if only for non-commercial purposes? Even if many rightsholders would ignore such things for not being worth their time to take down, it still doesn't feel totally right if the law was strictly followed.

* If a (non-open source like) work gets delisted or removed from online stores or websites to the point where it can't be legally obtained anywhere (and hence can only be acquired via piracy), would that count as a publisher or author saying that they effectively revoked rights to such a work? Then if that work cannot be legally obtained anymore, would that also mean that that work can never enter the public domain unless it becomes available again in the future?

I ask these questions in order to reduce the likelihood that I end up with a DMCA notice sent against any of my fanworks, that could potentially hurt my chances for getting future jobs. Then that could have a domino effect of making my life very hard if this gets bad enough because of not being able to find a source of income because people got scared of me infringing their copyrights. I may be exaggerating these worries, but that's what could happen if I strictly followed the law.

Well, this has gotten a little better since I'm working a seasonal job doing shelf stocking (retail job for 90 days since last Monday; 2 days per week, 4 hours per day; 8 hours per week), and is for getting work experience. I got it only with the help of a job recruiting agency. It's not involving computers much, but it's better than nothing.

* 2x DisplayPort 2.1

* 1x HDMI 2.1

* 1x USB-C, likely supporting DisplayPort as said above

Some add-in board (AIB) partner cards may replace this USB-C port with another DisplayPort port.

Now if you have an APU or CPU with iGPU, then it may be possible to enable both discrete and onboard graphics so you can fully utilize them.

That said, even these two issues aren't going to be easy to change at first, especially with big companies and some pre-existing laws like from the Berne Convention in 1909 (!) that have to be dealt with as well. All things that I definitely cannot change just by myself; at least we need more people onboard with copyright law reforms like what I said before any meaningful change is expected.

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Depends on how I will be living

Technologies: C/C++, Java, Python, Basic HTML | Willing to learn more

Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SD4UXWIQMXXwjMPS--8jlMSNTU1...

GitLab: https://gitlab.com/Worldblender/

GitHub: https://github.com/RQWorldblender/

I have graduated since September 2020, so I can be considered a recent graduate. I have not had any internships or held any jobs before, but I have made multiple personal projects at both my GitLab and GitHub accounts, and even contributed to a few FOSS games. These side projects are the only experience I have gained outside of school projects so far. Email: richWiki101@gmail.com