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I'm fine with pretending that a game console focused on kids is not a general purpose computer, but this is unacceptable threat to liberal democracy when applie
by BlueTemplar 1y ago
I'm fine with pretending that a game console focused on kids is not a general purpose computer, but this is unacceptable threat to liberal democracy when applied to PCs. And nothing (yet) is as much of a PC as a smartphone.
- shadowgovt 1y agoThe PinePhone is right there, waiting for more people to use it. I don't think iPhone and Android constitute a threat to liberal democracy; I think they're just more reliable, and PinePhone hasn't taken off because it's actually not okay to have the tool you carry in your pocket to (possibly) make emergency calls be unreliable.
- BlueTemplar 1y agoYes, sadly for now I can't just shame normal people for using iOS / Android ( / Xiaomi HyperOS ? ) : there just don't seem to be any good enough alternatives for non-computer geeks. (Dumbphones rather than smartphones are today the ethical option for them I guess, but also a sacrifice that I don't feel comfortable enough to ask of them either.)