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Everything coming from China is going to be closed source as well, and it's going to be pretty hard for banks to onboard themselves on open source solutions. I

Everything coming from China is going to be closed source as well, and it's going to be pretty hard for banks to onboard themselves on open source solutions. I think the ultimate solution is: two phones, one shitty one just for banking/trading/whatever, which only stays at home most of the time, and one Linux phone that we more or less own, for calls/texts/web browsing, which stays with us.

Aperocky 1y ago
It only matters if you treat phones as a development environment. It's tempting to have full control over everything OSS style, but the reality is you can only tenably have that for very specific parts of life.
- skeezyboy 1y ago
  i wanted my phone to be more than just a kiosk though. thank fuck desktop never ended up in this mess
  - const_cast 1y ago
    The irony is that our phones are unbelievably powerful and run laps around computers from just 5-10 years ago, but then we use them as locked-down glorified web views and advertisement deliverers. Or, as you say, kiosks.
    - goodpoint 1y ago
      advertisement deliverers and massive surveillance devices
    - geysersam 1y ago
      Not to mention all the functionality, sensors, etc that our laptops have never had.
- OkayPhysicist 1y ago
  Why? I have the freedom to fix or modify most things I own. What makes phones so special that it justifies licking the boot of some techbro billionaires?