There are options out there for you to do this. Hell, build your own. That’s what nerds did long ago. Keep up the same effort today. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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ori_b a day ago | parent | next [-]

There's a lot of effort going into making it impossible to interact with the rest of the world if you run your own code.

Look up remote attestation.

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garciasn a day ago | parent [-]

Linux changed the landscape of Unix. We can do it with phones too. The defeatist attitude, while potentially true, didn’t land us where we are today server side.

	▲	ThrowawayR2 a day ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Linux was a one-time anomaly in a much simpler, wilder era without overwhelmingly dominant incumbents in the spaces that Linux eventually took over.
	▲	saulpw a day ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		Linux was created in 1993, when the computing world was still understandable by a single human. This is no longer the case, hence why we haven't seen any new (hacker) operating systems since then.
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		A purely technical solution is insufficient. Put on your suit and prepare to play politics.

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echelon a day ago | parent | prev [-]

> There are options out there for you to do this.

That's like the tiny moments of freedom that Winston Smith has in 1984 before he is captured and tortured.

We live in a mobile computing dictatorship. There isn't time, money, or energy for millions of people to do this.

And so we are taxed, corralled, and treated like cattle. Google and Apple own smartphones and nobody can do anything about it.

The only solution is government dismantlement of the Google/Apple monopoly. That starts with mandates for web installs of native apps by default, without hidden settings menus or scare walls.