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minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoEurope: Companies can’t lock down your operating system. Also Europe: Companies must force back doors into their operating systems. I wonder how long those two things can coexist.
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 day agoWell, Google’s current behaviour is already putting the future existence of F-Droid into question.
minus-squarerumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·21 hours agoWe need FOSS phones badly and in numbers that manufacturing isn’t horrible. That is until our governments force carriers not to connect them. If I could find a reasonably priced 8" Linux tablet, I’d sell my phone and buy a cellular wifi AP.
minus-squareՈրբունի@jlai.lulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·16 hours agoYou can spoof IMEI and pretend your phone is an old iPhone. Carriers wouldn’t know.
Europe: Companies can’t lock down your operating system.
Also Europe: Companies must force back doors into their operating systems.
I wonder how long those two things can coexist.
Well, Google’s current behaviour is already putting the future existence of F-Droid into question.
We need FOSS phones badly and in numbers that manufacturing isn’t horrible. That is until our governments force carriers not to connect them.
If I could find a reasonably priced 8" Linux tablet, I’d sell my phone and buy a cellular wifi AP.
You can spoof IMEI and pretend your phone is an old iPhone. Carriers wouldn’t know.