Comment by mdp2021
4 years ago
Let us comb this a bit.
When you mention that set of population as deserving the consequences, it does not seem too far to me from "People who want trains instead of cars deserve trains". Is this relevant? The big problem is, people buy controversial services, hence finance them and endorse them, hence strengthen them, and in some cases these services make the acceptable ones extinct: the big problem is that people do not refuse what is not sensible, and sensible people have to pay.
Already here where I live, I cannot get essential services¹ because that practice made them extinct!!!
¹(exactly: public administration, tick; banking, very big tick; medicine, not yet. And you did not mention ___the cars___, and more...)
Other note: you wrote
> nearly no one owns their phone
and some of us are stuck with more reliable older devices, which soon may need some kind of replacement. If you know the exceptions to the untrustable devices, kindly share brand/model/OS/tweak.
> If you know the exceptions to the untrustable devices, kindly share brand/model/OS/tweak.
https://puri.sm/products/librem-5
This is beautiful, and news (to me) that make me re-breathe like around alpine pines. Thank you!
(It makes me dream of a version which also is ruggedized and uses a high resolution OLED display... But this can easily already be the new palm companion.)
I hope that the current difficulties in (global) manufacturing will be soon be over.
Edit: having mentioned "pines" was not meant to be a pun - I just realized the odd potential reference to the PinePhone.