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  • Didn’t know/remember about KitKat verified boot, but the sandboxing thing was prob just to kernel & perhaps some system files, def not user or hardware such as cameras. Including between apps & phone contacts, etc.

    And I totally agree about lack of Linux phones (as hardware), the phone market with its size & megacorp subsidies to preinstall spybloatware is a giant hurdle.

    And the real reason for closed sauce drivers (as a practice, not as if they should open-sauce old hardware now - that’s a security risk for unsuspecting folk & iot … but we could def transition the practice).







  • Sorry, I don’t know enough about it to comment specifically this case, but in general I think that pay-to-search would be great (run by a corp or gov - both ways have their own future dev risks).

    Search engines shouldn’t be financially motivated, they are too important - but if subscriptions are the only motivation (and search engine the only business!) that indeed mitigates a lot of the core concerns I have. I would pay for Google’s search engines (if packaged in an independent corp) from two decades ago.

    You know, if it’s free, you are the product. It’s not like you don’t currently “pay” for using Googles shit, it’s just not in a way you immediately see.

    Generally speaking, services you don’t run locally seem like a logical thing to have a price tag, you outsource the “work” (of the service) not just the dev.


  • Yes, ofc!!
    Some foss projects have that model, eg FairEmail iirc (and yes, I “bought” it). Similarly others offer unessential perks for “the paid version”. (And others still offer support, sort of like a SLA.)

    But “paid version” it’s a bit of legacy proprietary thinking, I’m happy if it works, but just have the mindset to donate anything to the projects you use/enjoy (even better, have a monthly donations set up, big dev projects really need that cf predictability).

    What I will not do is willingly pay for property software (outside of games and similar stuff). Idk even what I bought last, but maybe like 2 or 3 proprietary programs in my whole life (W95, some Android app to code my car via obd, … I guess by cars had/have a bunch of closed sauce sw I technically paid for).