Comment by DaSHacka
21 hours ago
> To me, this is... fine. Not ideal; but fine. We should fight like hell to score wins where we can, like in right to repair, parts availability, ensuring old devices are kept up to date for as long as possible (Apple is pretty good at this); but if I have to carry an old iPhone in my backpack to access my bank because they refuse to support my hypothetical GnuPhone 5, the world isn't going to end.
But even as you say, as you're using Arch as your desktop computer, things may be fine now, but they're only going to get worse.
Should we all have to carry two laptops because anything running a free software core is just utterly unusable due to remote attestation?
> We need nerds who care about this to stop typing on hackernews and go start a phone hardware company. That's it.
Didn't you just spend most of your comment talking about how the market forces don't care anyway? Would good is starting up a phone hardware company that will ultimately go bust due to total apathy of the general consumer?
Agreed. Its only going to get worse and all current trends validate that. It’s clearly trending towards closed source big brother platforms. E.g ios, android, windows and macos.
It does look that way. Though there is one potential silver lining around the madness going on in geopolitics: much of the rest of the world is rethinking it's long-standing strategy of relying on American software. That makes Open solutions look a lot more attractive, even to the average politician, than say a year ago.