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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

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?