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[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So what company do you recommend?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I recommend freedom.

Like Christmas in Whoville, freedom doesn't come wrapped in a company.

Freedom comes from standing in the cold naked air on open source software with no cloud services except what you can wrangle from the earth with your own two hands.

Edit: All this discussion has me worked up. I'm going to go use hand tools to carve a canue.

[–] W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)
[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours 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.