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submitted 2 months ago by KseniyaK@lemmy.ca to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I was thinking of getting a wifi card like that, but can't seem to find any.

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[-] CalcProgrammer1@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago

Even if so, it would likely still have proprietary blobs, just embedded into a ROM or flash chip on the card. Personally, I'd rather have firmware loaded at runtime over hard-coded, at least then the blob is able to be reverse engineered possibly.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

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