Comment on Do you actually own anything digital?

kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I guess I didn’t buy my phone or my laptop then?

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  • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You did, but you are the product

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    • Pyroglyph@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How am I the product when I bought it outright and installed Linux before ever booting it up?

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      • Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Congratulations, then you aren’t. On another note, how does Linux on a phone look like? I thought Ubuntu touch was still pretty far from daily-drive capability.

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  • kandoh@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You bought it but you don’t own it. The companies that made them can always decide to reach through the internet and rearrange them better to their liking

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    • callyral@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      what are they gonna do? shut down my CPU or something using the internet?

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      • AeonFelis@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I don’t think I ever heard of it happening to a computer, but it did happen to printers: thisismoney.co.uk/…/Printers-remotely-disabled-cu…

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    • kzhe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Custom Android ROM? Linux? That’s just not true. Especially considering entirely FOSS devices i.e. System76.

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