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Your Phone is an Entire Computer (medhir.com)
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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 44 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.

[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

The problem is that it allows users to detect when they're connected to a phony cell tower like the ones police and ICE use to intercept communications, and we Can't Have That.

[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You could always boot whatever operating system you like on Macs.