I’d like to get on board but until jolla/sailfish has a free (as in beer) community version that I can put on my cheap phone, I really don’t care a bit for it. available for some xperia models and in a limited version, I mean come on. let it loose and reap the fruits of enthusiastic and unpaid volunteer work, what’s the holdup?
Yes, I get the contradiction of posting a video hosted on Youtube. But I’m not going to make perfection be the enemy of good.
I absolutely get her position. Where is she going to preach Linux? Peertube? Which is full of Linux nerds? Got a go to where the place isn’t full of Linux nerds
It’s fine, no sweat, there are solutions for viewers/lurkers:
Browser:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
Android:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
Sadly Invidious instances always have problems because Google keeps making breaking changes to how videos are fetched, intentionally or unintentionally.
Dude thanks for this, this is pretty awsome
No problem :)
Why a video instead of a text post? I watched about a minute and the video is really annoying.
Because it includes demonstration of the OS.
TL;DW?
I spent more than a year running Arch Linux on the Pinephone. I was surviving, but honestly not thriving, there’s so much of modern life that unfortunately requires “real” phones.
Pox upon ye that requires mobile wallet RFID to open doors.
Open doors?
It is a bit of an obscure situation, but you know how some places use RFID identity cards to do authentication, including to do stuff like let you into a building? Well imagine if it got replaced with mobile-first phone based RFID.
Great vid, but did the reviewer really have to rub the “European” aspect of it throughout? smh…
Anyways, she mentions that there’s the option of using Aurora Store + F-Droid, I wonder if govt. apps that are basically required for day-to-day services (e.g. Absher, Sehaty) would work with or without microG… I might try and find out for science, once I have the means to do so :).
Otherwise, compartmentalizing by having two phones, one Android for the govt apps and one Linux, would basically be meta until something changes.
did the reviewer really have to rub the “European” aspect of it throughout?
It’s become a very important feature for a lot of people who can’t stand fascism, and a selling point for non-US companies.
If you want it to change, kick the orange utan out of the White House, and maybe in 10 to 15 years, the rest of the world will get over the butthurt.
“Buy European” / “Use European” is a deeply unserious and reactionary mantra that assumes software and hardware manufactured and designed in Europe is inherently the “safest” and “most secure”. Or if not, then “safer” than their AmeriKKKan or their Chinese counterpart. Or if it is not “safe” at all then it is assumed it is “less unsafe”.
It’s reactionary, because it reinforces ideals for European nationalism and only ever came up so far when Trump got elected. It also necessarily espouses the Great Man Theory because of that, which you seem to entertain there.
If Europe or European companies were serious about security and privacy, they would do well to decouple from GAFAM. The reality is that European institutions all use Microsoft or Amazon to host their websites, use Google or Microsoft for their office suite software (save for a few and far between insignificant instances of LibreOffice use), use Instagram/Facebook/Twitter/etc… for public communication, as well as promotional and marketing purposes, and so on.
If the EU had any skin or teeth, they would actually enforce their GDPR regulations and not allow any GAFAM in Europe. Instead, they are essentially allowed to continue to operate, the “fees” GAFAM pay for violations of GDPR rules are basically only chump change and can be made back within hours.
And finally, the EU routinely invests in spyware to be used within and outside their borders. It’s no surprise it deservedly doesn’t get the traction Europeans want.
The real solution, which correctly transcends any and all borders, involves advocating for Free/Libre Open Source Software and Hardware. It shouldn’t be hard to understand why.
Sources:
- EU funds are flowing into spyware companies, and politicians are demanding answers
- The EU Funds Surveillance Around the World: Here’s What Must be Done About it
- AI mass surveillance at Paris Olympics – a legal scholar on the security boon and privacy nightmare
- Investigation of the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware
- 20 biggest GDPR fines so far [2024] (the fines in question are negligible, and only serve to line the pockets of the rich)
- Female health apps aren’t doing enough to protect sensitive data, study says
I agree, though I wouldn’t call it “butthurt” so much as “justified concern”.
It’s totally butthurt.
People around the world are genuinely pissed that the richest country on Earth is threatening their right to not have to go through another world war because 77 million dumbasses reckoned electing a fascist felon pedo in the White House was a-okay.
My company has stopped selling to American customers, so that they wouldn’t pay tariffs and fund the fascist state each time they ordered from us, and I can tell you the business we picked up in Europe just for deciding to do that is well worth the loss of income from American customers.
I don’t think butthurt is the right phrase.
According to Websters: Butthurt describes being upset or offended—usually in a way that seems over-the-top, silly, or unwarranted.
I’m not interesting in a Linux phone but always on the lookout for another Youtuber to follow. Thanks for posting.
