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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Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 1 year agoI guess I didn’t buy my phone or my laptop then?
kandoh@reddthat.com 1 year ago
callyral@pawb.social 1 year ago
what are they gonna do? shut down my CPU or something using the internet?
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…
kzhe@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Custom Android ROM? Linux? That’s just not true. Especially considering entirely FOSS devices i.e. System76.
Capricorn_Geriatric@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You did, but you are the product
Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How am I the product when I bought it outright and installed Linux before ever booting it up?
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.
Pyroglyph@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah I was just referring to my laptop there. I do still use Android, but with LineageOS instead of my device’s stock image.