100 Million Firmware Updates Supplied By The LVFS – Technical Blog of Richard Hughes
blogs.gnome.org
  • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deOP
    13·
    7 months ago

    FWUPD/LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service) has made it remarkably easy to update a lot of system firmware and device/peripheral firmware under Linux. Prior to widespread LVFS support it was often a daunting chore for Linux users to update device firmware with frequently needing to boot into a Microsoft Windows installation, resorting to FreeDOS for system BIOS updates in the olden days, or go without updating firmware.

    https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-100-Million-Firmware

    • db2@sopuli.xyz
      241·
      7 months ago

      My ad blocker turned off at some point and I loaded that link without it… holy shit was that obnoxious. The ads moved things around, blocked the article, autoplayed videos… and that’s what we’re supposed to be appreciative of and turn off our ad blockers for? 🤢

      • arglebargle@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        I said this about 2 weeks ago. I was trying to support Phoronix and was browsing on mobile. The site was unusable. They need to get control of that. I have websites and I refuse to ever run ads. Then again, I am not in it for the money.

        On the other hand the number of websites that are using ChatGPT to create content, images, and links solely to push ads for profit is getting larger every day. It does not take any effort either. You can pay a monthly fee to have a service auto update your site and the ads are automatic too.

        I am beginning to not trust sites that run ads.