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Android: sideloading blocked and open source updates withheld to twice a year (youtu.be)

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Google moves to lock down the Android operating system, effectively stealing features away from millions of existing users.

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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 points 14 hours ago

falling further behind in creating a real-world usable [libre] phone that can do everything a phone is supposed to do.

Tis a cost analysis:
Raise your hands if you want a libre phone. Raise your hands if you’ll loan out Billions of Euros without expectations of returns.

Our planet is too illiterate to loan out billions of euros to R&D a phone design with the hellish logistics of sourcing parts, assembly & shipments, even if we gift the phone schematics on a radicle instance. I say this as someone experienced on lots of failed investments. Even as I await this plausibility. There are others like these.

EFF should have

Designed and spearheaded their own. Detailing risks, dangers, and threat models.