So yeah, moving up to a faster, more capable system
windows 11 is not a faster, more capable system but one with even more bloat, including more user hostile bloat. the single advantage of it is that it still gets updates, but there are many other solutions to that.
no worries. but that’s why I think android would be a much better base for a free software mobile operating system than a current linux distribution. lots of engineering work and experience went into making it, both on the technical sides and in the UX, with lots and lots of feedback. it has largely solved permissions, inter-app communication, power saving, things like these, and I mean all in the AOSP project, forgetting about the proprietary google mobile services.
not everything is perfect, lots could be improved, and there are things we don’t like, like how app background activity is handled is not too transparent and neither customizable, etc, but those would be much easier to fix and maintain then reimplementing everything. hardware drivers are a problem, but it is anyway, and with android we at least have a working system with which reverse engineers can analyze the drivers in operation. certainly android is not the cleanest codebase but its not so bad either to warrant throwing it away. in the parts of the code I looked over the years, it’s quite organized, but of course I have only seen very little.
my point is that if the open source community cannot figure out just maintenance of an android system, there’s no chance of creating a real mobile linux distribution, as it would need the aforementioned maintenance and the development of additional features
doesn’t the same apply to any operating system, including the linux phone distributions? android has security measures that may be breached, but mobile linux has much fewer security measures at all
they can take down the code today and not much will happen, as the code is mirrored elsewhere.
This is why I didn’t bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple’s anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.
I’m at the point where I won’t bother wasting energy on 99% of digital products unless they’re open source and I can run them indefinitely on my own Linux server.
but… this doesn’t make any sense. the roms you brought up can be still used indefinitely, they will still be able to install any apps. maybe except when they have installed the official google suite, but that’s always a user choice in the popular android rom world, none of these preinstall it, and microg users are not affected
theoretically installing through ADB will still work. but that’s very impractical, and f-droid cannot do that.
and what’s the problem with android other than google’s fuckery?
Then there’s convinience. People will be free to transfer money across the continent, and also to friends and family without any costs (some countries have that, some dont).
I’m not sure about that part. If GNU Taler is to serve as the digital euro, that has been designed to be taxable. for this reason when transferring money to a friend instead of a business, that will have to go through a third party that sees the transacting parties and the amount.
Taler is very promising, but with it (or another digital euro implementation) we will still need easy access to regular cash.
Those practices are not tied to digital ID.
Except that they are, so that they can check whether you are the actual owner of the pass.
having digital ID does not automatically mean data will be gathered.
it is gathered, and that is not a question. a screen shows the bus driver your ID number, because on paper everyone should also show their ID for the driver to check that the numbers match. now in reality that rarely happens because it slows down boarding, but your ID is still registered and tied to your pass. the GDPR document also mentions it.
People simply don’t want government to do anything because they don’t trust it.
thats a nice distraction to tell for yourself, but the transportation company was not governmentally owned when the law came into effect.
was just wandering if digital ID in itself is a bad idea for some reason but I see it’s not.
it is, because it makes connecting already collected information to an exact person much easier and impossible to deny, and because computerized tracking is much less visible than if the bus driver or shop keeper would have to jot down your ID number or take a picture with their phone.
You already have to show your ID to buy alcohol or enter some places.
and who cares about that? It’s an entirely different situation. the card is not scanned, it is not recorded in a database that you were there. a person just checks it with their eyes.
The government could simply require shop owners to scan the ID with government app.
the point is that it would be a noticeable, suspicious change for more people. but when its dressed as convenience first and then deprecation of “obsolete” “insecure” practices, it is not. then concerns like this can just be handwaved away, that “oh it surely won’t happen”
And you don’t have to show your ID to use public transport.
in my country you already have to scan your monthly pass, tied to your id. travel information is also persisted for years. they banned paper passes in law.
we have already paid with our data and beta testing
but is that two different companies, websites, apps, or the same but just little differences?
the commission should preventively sue google for what they are planning to do with their full lockdown of android in 2 years. their plans almost certainly violate the dma by artificially restricting 3rd party app stores. bonus point would be that apple couldn’t say this anymore.
I wouldn’t go that far. it means it hurts them too. climate change is not good either just because it will also hurt bad people.
I don’t think it would be that hard. Microsoft could just change the UEFI certification process. Alternative UEFI firmware could solve it (unless that too is tied to verification like qualcomm does on android), but nearly no modern motherboards have any alternative firmware. I think there was 2 ASUS motherboards with built in wifi capability, but that’s it.
I don’t think we are in meaningful numbers. not yet.
you missed a thorn in algorithm.
where is my prize?? :D
I don’t really see þe “federated” part of it. Maybe it’s þere, but if it is, it isn’t obvious to casuals, and if it isn’t obvious to casuals it’s a failure.
I think it’s because that contrary to the lemmyverse, peertube does not auto-accept federating servers. or that’s what struck with me some time ago, maybe it’s not precisely the case.
lol. microsoft manages the preinstalled signing keys for secure boot. all it needs to do is require motherboard makers to not allow disabling secure boot or installing a machine owner key.
I’m not sure what you mean by controlled, but how I got to know it was as the malware that’s recommended to everyone on the front page of the google play store, and then even factory preinstalled on a lot of them.