Let's hope other states follow suit...

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[–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

This is my growing experience of using GrapheneOS.

Mostly everything works just fine. But certain apps don't, because they've made a choice to use Play store integrity. And there are more and more of them, including the UK government ID app. So I can't use my phone to verify my identity because I use a version of Android that's more secure than Google's.

And yeah, I can see it going this way with Linux. If you can't be verified using macOS, Windows, or ChromeOS (or whatever the new thing is) tools, then you become a second class digital citizen.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    And that's why we need to build better and better tools for everyone.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It's very easy, a lot of these huge platforms are just corporate adware and military/intelligence propaganda machines, creating something real with real people will blow it out of the water.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    It's not quite realistic to get feature parity with the huge platforms just on a volunteer basis though. And you might not care about 90% of the features, but that in turn means less adoption, which means less software, less possibilities.

    I mean, I too would want all the best things without any of the downsides, but that takes a Huge amount of effort. And I don't see how we can realistically get there without money.

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