Purism on Spectre and Meltdown and the microcode update
yep I agree but this is for a possible future, but in the meantime now should we not try to mitigate the problem for our actual hardware?
But I cannot because the distro blocks the microcode updates.
How is Trisquel "blocking" updates? That would be DRM! I believe you confuse "not proposing" with "blocking": no Trisquel developer is working to prevent you from installing something on your system.
Blocks meaning doesn't provide any package to facilitate the update. Using distro packages is the preferred way to do the update while the manual update is not.
I tried the manual and also to use packages from ubuntu unsuccessfully
Trisquel would have its GNU FSDG status rightly revoked if it provided proprietary software.
yep, I know but I am thinking that for this particular case a different strategy should be adopted.
Because taking such a strict position can be sustained only ditching the actual CPUs in toto. It is clear that this is not possible at the moment, so some sort of compromises should be used.
Many people are pretty upset (see Linus T. on some public mailing lists) and this could be the right moment for alternatives to emerge. But It will require a lot of time.
I've decided not to send what I just wrote because I've already fanned enough PureFlames in this forum. Instead I'll just say that I completely agree with you, and that I would like to share this thumbnail from a video called "Why you should support the Librem 5 phone", as I believe it is meme-worthy.
