When I see on the news Apple's lavish 50s celebrations I really feel proud not to ever have embraced a company who made a fortune shifting manufacturing from US to far East and endorsing slavery as a way of life and profits.
Never had a MacBook. Never wished one. Never been slave of the iOS con.
And proud owner of a £65 refurbished ThinkPad Yoga 11a, running Linux ZorinOS as my daily driver beast.
🖕 Fuck you Apple | Fuck you Tim Cook
@rez it's the iOS concepts i refuse. Give me an iMac and I'll make it run like a Jaguar..
Regarding e/os
I have it on my Main mobile, but what I've heard from Murena about age verification didn't really convinced me on my choice. I've clearly asked about it and they have buried /merged my question on another topic, that had nothing to do with my original question, but I guess it was the one closing sooner.
You can read my comments on this post
https://community.e.foundation/t/uk-government-voting-on-age-verification-for-vpn-users/78533/38
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TBH I was expecting a bit more than just Let’s wait and see from a company which makes privacy priority for its users. I’ve installed e/OS on my mobile on this promise but your vague position on this matter may makes me regret to favour your OS to others. Once age checks move from websites to app stores and then into the OS itself, this becomes a privacy and software freedom issue, not just a safety policy debate.
@ggrey I'll play the devil's advocate to keep things rolling, but what is your concern here? That Murana is going to implement OS-level verification? Purely from observation, that doesn't really strike me as "on-brand" for what they are going for.
Granted, with everything so upside down right now, who knows? If I were to act today, I'd just get rid of all of my electronics, but that's just not going to happen yet, so for now, I try to assess. I have also been known to be wrong. Sometimes. Maybe
@rez GrapheneOS has Made a statement already on age verification, and so have other OS, being PC of mobile.
Others are just waiting on what most will do.
If I had to flash my mobile today I would do it with OS of those who already have made a decision.
That's my personal take.
@rez i bought a pixel 7 for £100 on purpose
Second hand market is where I go to. With e/os it can run 2 days without charge.
Wouldn't spend more than £100 for a phone since after market OS Made old mobiles usable for years to come
@ggrey I'll have to double-check, but I'm afraid in my neck of the woods the asking prices for most things are... far less reasonable. Which is weird. You would think that with living in the backyard of Amazon and Microsoft that people would be basically giving away barely used tech, but here I am.
Good advice though. I'll see if I can swing a good deal on something.
If you do, go for one which is compatible with official ROMs. Normally for Pixel is the top number, so pixel 6 / 7 / etc
They most of the times have support of official ROM and not the community one.
Also if I'm not wrong, those can have bootloader relocked after flashing 😉
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