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• jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Me too, but the lords of Technofeudalism, backed by government, won’t allow that forever. Maybe on PCs, but not phones. No “side loading” what they don’t approve. Banks and co, only allowing their apps on approved OSs. No satnav traffic data unless you use an approved satnav, rendering them useless.

  The problem isn’t technological, it’s political. We need decent government protecting citizens and enforcing competition laws. The problem is the population don’t understand what is being done to them, so don’t vote against it.

  None of it is new. Liberty vs security, monopoly, etc, aren’t new, but wrapping it in technology blinds most people to it.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Fairphone is independent and you can swap the default android to Ubuntu touch OS

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    • jabjoe@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Same problems though. If you run something odd ball like Ubuntu, the banking apps won’t work and you may struggle to have a satnav with traffic info. If you run stock Android, you will soon only be able to install, sorry, “side load”, apps Google approves.

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• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m sorry to say it, but neither Linux nor the hardware you use it on fit under “create your own”.

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  • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well you can build Linux from scratch if you want to create your own. And RISC hardware is opensource, and gaining adoption.

    But at least with Fairphone they have built it so that you don’t need google android or derivatives, you can install Ubuntu Touch OS.

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    • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well you can build Linux from scratch if you want to create your own.

      Building a project is not creating your own.

      And RISC hardware is opensource, and gaining adoption.

      RISC-V, and what’s gaining adoption is not what’s opensource.

      I don’t think you are getting my point. When you depend on one humongous project, open or not, you depend on what those having influence in it decide.

      That’s why they make autonomies, checks and balances, minority quotas, proportional systems and so on in democracies. Because deciding everything through a simple majority vote with no limitations and nuance, with winner taking all, doesn’t make things good.

      In this case it’s a weight of work vote, not majority vote, but the results are not too much different. Similar to how Bitcoin turned out.

      So-o - in Linux most of work is now being done by a set of the same big corporations. It’s not the magic freedom tool someone would want it to be, sorry.

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      • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You can totally build your own. You don’t have to rely on packages given.

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC-V

        Free and OpenCode

        And there are so many Linuxes (some like Redhat that gets influence from Intel, and some like (insert name here) that are peoples own projects) that corporate control cannot dominate it all.

        Like nixOS has controversy at the moment because a steering board member is linked to US military. He could compromise the project by steering it toward the fascist regimes agenda, so you load Gentoo or VOID.

        Choices are freedom

        The claim that most of the work is bring done by big corps , skips a step. Corps have money and dedicate people to add to projects to suit their own needs, their commits to kernel may be high, but its not neccessry for a running system…there is a world wide open source community building their own stuff out of passion alone.

        Like Facebook contributed a lot to btrfs, if you feel that somehow has shady backend, just don’t include it in your kernel modules.

        Or if you are super paranoid run Haiku LOL

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