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Just out of curiosity, what smartphone and OS do you use, if I may ask? iOS and Windows Phone are closed source, which I'd argue it's worse than using Google se
by rocho 9y ago
Just out of curiosity, what smartphone and OS do you use, if I may ask? iOS and Windows Phone are closed source, which I'd argue it's worse than using Google services. Android seems pretty much unusable without Google integration. So...?
- Synaesthesia 9y agoSo we are forced to use a major manufacturer for our smartphones. Does that mean we can’t criticize them? They’re not on our side, they’re out to make a profit. I don’t trust them either, and I use a smartphone. I do think it’s important that we create open hardware and open software. I’m realizing Richard Stallman was right all along.
- lsh 9y agoGNU/Linux (Arch), and a rooted moto-g :) my desktop is notion: http://notion.sourceforge.net/ http://notion.sourceforge.net/ I took my hat out of the desktop race a long long time ago. the only thing that has really affected me recently was Mate switching entirely to GTK3. my text editor now does all sorts of things the maintainer of the editor can't change, like smooth-scrolling when using the find dialog. I really want to get behind this effort for an improved desktop, even if it means breaking everything. but I have to be able to trust each of the components.