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.
I maintain my own private invidious instance and that motherfucker has to be rebooted every single day istg
I personally use PipePipe (https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe) because it has SponsorBlock
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?
- If you know anything of meego, you’ll be at home.
- necessary apps available
- android apps available otherwise via aurora
- interface is more spartan but nice to use compared to android
- accessibility features lacking
- if you’re used to custom Roms you’ll probably be fine but out of your depth if not
- work in progress but could daily drive
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?
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.
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.
“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
Various european public institutions are moving to open source solutions, and the fines for GAFAM are increasing more and more, and starting to actually hurt. If they banned GAFAM most people would be furious, it’s kind of a non-starter.
then “safer” than their AmeriKKKan or their Chinese counterpart.
I mean, it is though. Even if it wasn’t it’s still worth doing to support local industry.
Various european public institutions are moving to open source solutions meaning just Germany, the Netherlands and Germany. Even if this were true, they are incredibly underfunded compared to what they spend on military and “state security”.
the fines for GAFAM are increasing more and more, and starting to actually hurt
The “fines” that are “getting higher” are imposed on GAFAM, it’s still chump change even if they add $20 more million to the fines. The highest fine was around a billion euros for Facebook. That fine also was never settled yet either, it’s still being fought in court like basically most other settlements. Do you also know how much time it would take for Facebook to recoup that value, if they do get fined that much?
I mean, it is though. Even if it wasn’t it’s still worth doing to support local industry.
It really isn’t. Consult every single source I posted in my previous reply to see why. There’s obviously nothing wrong with supporting local industry, in fact I advocate for this. What I’m saying here is that there’s something wrong with blindly advocating for a Eurocentric initiative that is ideologically bankrupt, one that reinforces a European superiority complex and is only backed by appeals to European nationalism.
Highest fine was 3bn actually, and revenue=/=profits, meta’s profits are closer to 54bn.
Thing is, europe isn’t perfect on privacy, but it’s also not a monolith. European software is still better for the european consumer on privacy because of europe’s better privacy laws, and the fact that many EU solutions are move privacy-conscious, as that’s a good selling point when you’re a google/m$/meta competitior.
Eurocentric initiative that is ideologically bankrupt, one that reinforces a European superiority complex and is only backed by appeals to European nationalism.
It’s eurocentric because it’s a european movement, and I genuinely don’t know how you got the other two points. Europeans want european tech because both alternatives, the US and China, are not aligned with european interests, it’s that simple.
Oh yep, I mixed up rev. ans profit. Still though, that doesn’t change anything I’ve said so far. It is still effectively chump change that can be recuperated in a short amount of time. Also, which one specific company got fined 3bln?
European software is still better for the european consumer on privacy because of europe’s better privacy laws
This literally just boils down to “European is better for the European because it’s European”, if you’ve read any of these you’d get why:
- 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
The EU does not shy away from being terrible in terms of privacy, in fact it is far from being any semblance of “good” privacy, they just do a good job of keeping it hush-hush.
GAFAM have been basically allowed to operate carefree within EU jurisdiction because GDPR only serves to benefit capital and those with capital already. It’s been 10 years since it’s been introduced and not a single GAFAM company has been stopped by the EU. Every single OEM Android phone ships with Google Play Services, an Android OEM flavor that is not open-source and auditable and sometimes comes with GAFAM preinstalled.
Laptops and computers ship to the EU with Windows, a privacy nightmare, that’s been allowed to exist and fester the consumer market for decades, even well into the introduction of GDPR.
Schools, offices, etc… throughout Europe still largely depend on closed-source software like G Suite and/or Microsoft Office, Figma, Notion, etc… The European alternatives, save for LibreOffice which doesn’t see widespread adoption outside of maybe a few cities in Germany, are all closed-source bs.
The “efforts” that have been made so far like Fairphone, Sailfish, etc… have all been small-scale and underfunded compared to the amount spent on everything else, e.g. military.
Point is, so long as the Euros are at the US’ behest, EuroKKKrakers are not serious about privacy and security, and never will be, so they resort to random ass nationalist appeals that only quiets down when a Democrat takes office. So long as their own software are closed-source BS even if it has the word “privacy” plastered all over the landing page, it should not ever be called “private” or “secure”.
I’m not interesting in a Linux phone but always on the lookout for another Youtuber to follow. Thanks for posting.
