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Yes, but that box is oh so hard to check. ;)
by vturner 9y ago
Yes, but that box is oh so hard to check. ;)
- busterarm 9y agoIs it? I need my phone to do three things: 1) Make and receive calls & texts. 2) Run a small number of ubiquitous apps (maps, ride hailing) 3) Not get hacked at DEFCON. Phones with the Apple logo on the back do this job best. Their security posture is just so much better and you don't have carrier-enforced forced obsolescence from the software side. You literally can always run the latest iOS until the hardware _just can't_. I'm an open source guy only as much as it makes sense.
- jensv 9y agoDon't forget about Blackberry! :P
- busterarm 9y agoNew Blackberries are Android though.
- hueving 9y ago>I'm an open source guy only as much as it makes sense. That means you're not really an open source guy. You're just using whatever is best on the market at the time.
- colejohnson66 9y agoThen that would mean no one except for Richard Stallman are open source guys
- busterarm 9y agoAnd even he used to begrudgingly use non-free blobs while he didn't have an alternative.
- busterarm 9y agoWhen the open source option is significantly less secure, I'm not going to use it, sorry. I'll take the fundamentalist approach where I can...for example, Purism laptops or Raptor Talos hardware running BSD. That kind of option doesn't really exist with phones because of market forces. This idea that Android is some better moral choice is a delusion.
- salvar 9y agoIs this a No True Open Source Guy argument?
- lunchables 9y agoSo you don't use any closed source software? What exactly is the bar for "open source guy" ? Sounds kind of like a No True Scottsman situation to me.
- dijit 9y agoI have been having difficulty finding a good android phone that could replace the iPhone 5SE. If I go apple again, I no longer have the ability to sync my phone, since my Mac died under a glass of wine and I "replaced" it with a Dell Precision 5520 running Arch because the MacBook Pro lineup was untenable. I'd go apple again if I could actually backup,sync,etc my phone. It's a good device in isolation. But don't dare step out of the apple ecosystem.