so in the anticonsumerism thread, one of the OP's points was
now what he meant was buy used second hand stuff instead of getting the new releases from these companies, but I want to discuss the possiibility of getting off this train completely, namely getting away from x86.
I dont know about ARM. It certainly seems a bit better, and as soon as that management meanie changes his mind/dies/gets fired, ARM is gonna be a lot more of an attractive platform.
from lwn.net
theres also the trustzone thing, but idk if thats an issue or just fearmongering
What about MIPS? we don't hear much about that one. is there anything good for that?
I saw that Lemote still sells stuff uwu. If you don't remember them they made that netbook that Stallman used to use
lemote.com
mainly motherboards and processors now. How would we be able to get this stuff as non-chinese people?
If you got a lot of money, theres always TALOS II. It's a POWER9 workstation.
raptorcs.com
probably the best thing u can get if u can afford.
I've been looking at used POWER, SPARC, and Itanium stuff. You can get POWER6, POWER7, POWER8, old sun stuff, Oracle T4 and T5, some Fujitsu models, and various HP Itanium servers.
can be found on ebay and some other places. Might be worth checking out if you need a server, but i imagine these would be way too loud and whatnot to be used as a desktop.
Of course theres RISC-V. OwO I want this stuff! Main one to look at would be lowRISC, which will at least initially be a pi-type SBC. I definitely plan to buy this and make a cute little NAS or something out of it. Support it guys! ^.^
lowrisc.org
what do u guys think? any suggestions or things to look out for?
