Comment on Android’s next big feature turns your phone into a desktop

• futatorius@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I.E. have I completely stopped doing any type of banking on a device that isn’t running a completely locked down iOS or Android.

  In my case, I never do any financial transactions (including Google Pay) on my phone. The way I’ve got it configured, my Linux laptop is much more secure and auditable. If someone gets access to my phone, even when it’s logged in, the blast radius is small.

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• flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It is not a security thing to me. It is a “I want to do what I want to do with the things I paid for” thing.

  I know full well something so locked down is technically more secure, but using those platforms as my primary devices would cause a lose of device flexibility I have no interest in taking part in for the use cases of a desktop or laptop.

  Those platforms have their place, just like my video game consoles. But I am not interested in making anything I consider important contingent on something that is more at the whims of the company that made it than me.

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  • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Locked down means a power imbalance. The users are then just serf and will be abused. I want users empowered and the right to repair, repurposed and upgrade. Locked down devices mean short lived disposable devices, built as ewaste, that hoover up user data when used. It’s dystopian.

    Let alone where are tomorrow’s developers coming from when they are growing up in such nutrient poor environment.

    I rage against this dark serfdom future, but it’s on law makers to regulate to keep consumers/user free. So I’ve monthly donated to OpenRightsGroup for over a decade and always telling people to read some Cory Doctorow.

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