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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 5 months ago (1 child) So no real answer. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) There is no corporate answer. Edit: Hyperbole aside, here's some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough: You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed. For phones, it sounds like you're aware that there are no compromise-free answers today. But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft. Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled. Edit 2: Back to your original point - I don't have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you. I think some exist, but they're much lower quality, because there's a mich smaller community around them. Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have. So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) There is no corporate answer. Edit: Hyperbole aside, here's some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough: You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed. For phones, it sounds like you're aware that there are no compromise-free answers today. But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft. Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled. Edit 2: Back to your original point - I don't have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you. I think some exist, but they're much lower quality, because there's a mich smaller community around them. Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have. So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller. permalink fedilink source parent