<samueldr>
gchristensen: until it's confirmed those aarch64 qualcomm laptops have a sane internal storage layout, I wouldn't touch those
<samueldr>
it's too easy to get to brickville
<andi->
samueldr: same brand just different category. I got the raw display + mount for a RPI/ESP8266/SPI interfaces/…
<samueldr>
and it's a one-way street
<gchristensen>
very very fair
<samueldr>
it's basically the phone platform, but glorified in a foldy form factor
<samueldr>
(for previous qualcomm windows laptops)
<samueldr>
so I figure if you touch the wrong partition in just the wrong way, it'll end up needing one of those closed programmers to reset
<gchristensen>
good grief
<samueldr>
closed and private
<gchristensen>
I'm taking this to #worksonarm to ask about it :)
<samueldr>
I believe the 835-based laptops had a hardware partitioned eMMC, which could be good, except the layout wasn't split in a way useful for tinkering
<samueldr>
gchristensen: slack or discord?
<gchristensen>
slack
<samueldr>
I really want this to exist and be usable
<samueldr>
and it's why I'm such a harsh critic
<samueldr>
and no "don't touch the partitions" is not a valid answer
<samueldr>
and it shouldn't be for phones either!
<gchristensen>
yeah.
<samueldr>
I'm scared this will set a precedent
<samueldr>
instead of being scared about secure boot
<samueldr>
we should be scared about badly designed separation between firmware and software
<samueldr>
what if x86_64 based devices start shipping with such schemes?
<gchristensen>
yeah
<gchristensen>
macos did that for a little bit? but not so harshly
<samueldr>
I don't think they did
<samueldr>
AFAIK they always had the actual firmware on a separate device
<samueldr>
and they augment it through EFI drivers in the ESP
<samueldr>
maybe it's that?
<gchristensen>
ah right
<samueldr>
you're always able to dd if=/dev/zero your main storag
<samueldr>
storage*
* samueldr
takes notes
<samueldr>
that goes into my long form writing about safe tinkering
<samueldr>
as long as you can't tinker with the device, it's not a device you own, you're just along for the ride
<andi->
and it's trash...
<andi->
that didn't really last long..
<gchristensen>
heh
<andi->
ohh it was just slow
<andi->
great forgot to install the firmware for the wifi card.. time to make food and dream of proper free software...
<gchristensen>
impossible
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<andi->
then I should probably just stop this here and grow veggies somewhere...
<gchristensen>
probably
<gchristensen>
but that is hard too
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