I personally prefer postmarketOS but everything is better than stock android/ios
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I personally prefer postmarketOS but everything is better than stock android/ios
They could go full deep packet inspection like other authoritarian regimes. But otherwise its gonna be tough.
You need to have a phone that doesnt read your screen though. Iphones eg read everything you do and probably share that data. No idea about android.
Damn thats a depressing read. Why isnt this shit illegal?
Pure principle is the answer. People who buy a game should be able to play the game as long as they wish, sell it, give it their grandkids for all I care.
The problem with your argument is „doesnt affect me, wont bother“.
Think of anything you like or even love. Now think of it being taken away, because someone else doesnt care about it. You think thats fair?
Sounds like we might meet at the congress in december. :)
And I‘m with you on needing a phone that works. Sadly, wishing it were in that place right now doesnt help. On the other hand neither does just jumping in the deep end.
With open source stuff, real people need to help out, either with work (eg testing) or with money, because the „build company, make open source thing, profit“ doesnt really work that way. Companies like pine64 deserve to be flush with money because they actually care to make something thats ours.
So yes, I also have a main phone for work atm while tinkering with the postmarketOS phone until I deem it stable enough for daily use.
And thats what I suggest to people who are willing and have at least one old phone they cant or dont use anymore.
P.s.: the fact that there are this many distinct phones that do at least boot while they are barely able to pay one person for dev work is actually great news.
I wish they got sanctioned into oblivion.
Apple is getting their butt handed to them in china. Very nice.
This is the way
They‘re probably also gonna wreck the modding community with this as it has been hard to keep up already.
I personally will stay with voxelibre as it is open source and doesnt have telemetry baked in.
I agree on all points but the last.
Over two hundred phones have been ported to postmarketOS and every person giving it a shot will improve it. Together with grapheneOS, there are huge possibilities to mix a phones versatility with the freedom of linux. Combined with manufacturers like fairphone and pine64, phones also become more easily repairable.
The issue currently is that we have become ver accustomed to phones being very polishe. a lot of folks dont appreciate the free and open source phones and OSs due to their freakishly expensive, subscription ridden devices being optimized better.
If tech interested folks would default to repairable phones and open OSs, we would make a considerable jump towards being mainstreamable.
I‘m not saying people are at fault. Its just the way it currently is. We‘re seeing big improvements. I hope this continues.
Do you realize you just quoted the first matrix movie nearly verbatim? ;)
And yes, I get that. It feels weird af.
Indeed. But most normies will gladly tell you they are not easy to manipulate while buying something the media has told them to. Its shocking.
Have you seen the blender movie? Its quite short but you dont need any equipment to make good animated movies anymore. Its all there.
I‘m somewhat sure the person who made the trailer will make a version of the film out of pure spite that works exactly like this and its going to be the best thing ever, maybe even shaking the movie industry.
Thanks a lot! Greetings to your sister from by four bearded dragons. :) will update if I manage to own a llama at any point.
That comment made me laugh out loud! Thank you very much! I would in fact love to own a llama!
But you were on the right track. I made the acronym up. In my case it means double income no kids with a lizard.
Cool idea. Thanks for chiming in. :) i appreciate it
Interesting. When I read this I read it as the subreddit childfree which has a pretty anti children vibe and I instinctively assumed you meant people that dont like kids and/or dont think having children should be advertised and supported as much as it is.
As a DINKWAL I can understand all sides here. People should do what they like but getting asked „no kids? Why? Wont you reconsider?“ makes me want to punch someone.
Case in point :)