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Originally posted by vortex View PostI am not sure Librem 5 will even make it, they said they are now switching to i.MX8M, which will be more expensive.
Then they got the software stock that hasn't even been written since the iMX8 isn't out yet.
All this spells delays & more delays and they could run out of $$$.
My point being that it's fine that you're sceptic, but since the i.MX8M was a planned posibility from the beginning the price per chip is likely not a large concern of theirs. Delays from Freescale are a risk however.
Personally what I'm most sceptic about is the porting of GNOME to a form factor in a year. Plasma Mobile already works and just needs a lot of polishing, but there is not even a buggy alpha available for GNOME. If they don't announce a long-term plan the forthcoming month or two I'll bet money on that the GNOME shell on mobile will be either incredibly limited or delayed at the launch of the phone.
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Originally posted by andrebrait View PostNow you have something with no intrinsic value that's only profitable when converted from/to the thing it's supposed not to be compared with and the whole market is fed by pretty much nothing but hype.​​​​​
It's just a difference of scale. Paper currencies are significanly more common and in use, so any effect on them has less ripple.
But we had paper currencies that failed, and why did they fail? because people never fully believed in them and never really used them enough to keep them stable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperi...on_in_Zimbabwe
I remember their point was to have a stable value over time, too. Let's just say they didn't exactly succeed at that.​​​​​
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Originally posted by cl333r View Post
Fiat currencies consume far more energy and banks take far greater fees for money transfers. FYI.
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Originally posted by thebear View Post
citation needed
You have to take in account all the expenses of banking.
Every bank employee has to drive/get to work. A mid-tier mining rig (ETH) consumes about 3kW of energy. A petrol powered car produces ~100hp (~75kW) of power at full throttle and optimal RPM. Add to that all the bank's PCs, ATMs, security (yes, security people come with company diesel van to fill ATMs every now an then, even bring cash to bank), lightning in the banks and you get a world where a couple of kWs per person isn't all that much to run a currency.
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Originally posted by GunpowaderGuy View PostWho else thinks they should / wouldnt be against them making the next gpl/ LGPL versions more like mpl ? A license can be even less liberal than that without suffering from the drawbacks of copyleft
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Originally posted by kapouer View PostThis is not sustainable funding, considering mining bitcoins and using bitcoin is consuming so much energy. Energy that usually comes from countries burning fossil fuel. Yet it's cool that so much dirty money is going to fund something so valuable.
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