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July 2025

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GNU Libreboob Adentures, aka The Best Web Comic on the Internet

Article published by: Leah Rowe

Date of publication: July 2025

I gave lxo the bath salts. A visual story depicting the hypocrisy of FSF/GNU blob policy and their current opposition to Libreboot, despite the fact that they make the same kinds of compromises, but for them it's OK right?

lxo is a great man.

he’s just the best.

lxo is my hero.

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Yes.

lxo is fucking awesome.

lxo (Alexandre Oliva) is the creator of GNU Linux-libre, which is a special version of Linux that reduces the amount of hardware your system can support, for reasons of software freedom. This is because certain vendors decided to stop wasting money on dedicated EEPROMs for device firmwares, and instead lowered the cost of production by providing them in your Linux kernel instead. These binary blobs are perfectly morally acceptable and holy GNU so long as they’re not packaged in Linux; if it’s buried deep inside your CPU, it’s totally 100% OK. And that is the entire premise of linux-libre. This isn’t even satire. That is literally the policy of the project; it also disables warnings, such as warnings about bugs caused by not including CPU microcode updates, which linux-libre considers to be software; the code for loading it is entirely disabled.

Everyone should use linux-libre. Who needs modern WiFi support? Come join us in the year 2005, where all the based FSF people hang out. What are you waiting for?

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This comic also is a nod of respect to my good friend Ender “enigma” Shepard’s recent article, titled The File that Wouldn’t Die.

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