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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 144 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Google has no room to talk here with Android.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ironically a Linux-derived OS.

It's always good practice to be careful who you trust with your data. Open =/= private. More choices helps, though.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Android is very far from linux desktop. And it is private, its is google services that are bad, therefore we can have things like calyx and graphene os still be private.

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Depends on how one frames it. It's not the Stallman-defined "GNU+Linux" pureblood OS, but it nevertheless is built from a modified version of the Linux kernel.

And like any OS it can be made private and secure with the right components...or it can be cracked open like a data-farming egg without them.

I guess I can just take the low-hanging fruit and invoke Ubuntu as an alternative example, which was once something of a Linux entry point but has become more than fine collecting user data.

[–] beyond@linkage.ds8.zone 15 points 1 week ago

Ironically a Linux-derived OS.

Nothing ironic about it. There's nothing mystical about Linux, it's just a kernel. The guy who made it says he doesn't care about anything but code.

Personally, I only care about the code. When I say maybe there are people who worry about walled gardens and cloud providers who take ownership of your data, I am not one of those people. That's not what I actually care about. That's not what I do. What I do is code. What I care about is code.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago

"derived" doing a lot of heavy lifting here.