In my Clevo Laptop with @novacustom@mastodon.online and @3mdeb@fosstodon.org Coreboot firmware I now have replaced another proprietary part!

The Intel AX200 previously installed waits for a new use case, while I swapped in the Qualcomm Atheros Y8512 pci-e Wifi card, which has #blobfree drivers and thus runs fully on Linux, not just on some #nonfree kernels (that basically break the open source philosophy by including proprietary code in the single most critical root binary on your system)

It works great, just downloaded a Firefox release. zip over wifi without a single stutter!

    • @cm0002@lemmy.world
      16•3 months ago

      I can’t read the first part of your comment, but I think you’re asking why blobfree is?

      Blobfree means that the hardware can run with completely open source drivers, without the inclusion of any self contained proprietary “black box” code AKA “blobs”