Yes, please! Unfortunately, your smartphone doesn't (really) belong to you. It's...

fsflover · 2025-01-14T12:43:49 1736858629

> your smartphone doesn't (really) belong to you.

Speak for yourself. Sent from my Librem 5.

notorandit · 2025-01-17T12:16:30 1737116190

Fair! But 0.000001% of the market is hardly a point.

fsflover · 2025-01-17T15:16:59 1737127019

The problem with your comment is that you didn't suggest any solution.

notorandit · 2025-01-17T16:58:47 1737133127

Because there is none. Freedom is a game. Are you really free to bake your own bread? (Think about wheat, mills, water, salt, yeast, energy, oven...).

I simply point to the fact that you have no control. Just it's illusion.

Ask yourself, how can law enforcement push a software trojan into any mobile phone without physically touching it.

fsflover · 2025-01-17T17:22:15 1737134535

> Ask yourself, how can law enforcement push a software trojan into any mobile phone without physically touching it.

Can they?

> Are you really free to bake your own bread? (Think about

Yes. It's not easy, but it's not impossible. You have to fight for your freedom to get it.

notorandit · 2025-01-17T19:15:22 1737141322

Yes, they can. This is another reason for having closed source blobs running as root under Linux/Android to manage all communication.

You cannot fight for this, unless you design both the communication hardware and its firmware and you get away from Google Play.

fsflover · 2025-01-17T23:08:58 1737155338

> You cannot fight for this, unless design both the communication hardware and its firmware

This is exactly what my phone is. There are no blobs. It runs FSF-endorsed PureOS. Using it is fighting.

notorandit · 2025-01-18T12:33:26 1737203606

3GB RAM? 4G only? No, thanks.

And, btw, are you running Google Play services?

In this case, all of your efforts have been made useless.

fsflover · 2025-01-18T23:10:37 1737241837

AFAIK you can't run Google Play services on GNU/Linux.

> 3GB RAM? 4G only?

Fighting, you know, requires some compromises. See also: https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/