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1. ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊ (dajbelshaw@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 11:55:25 EDT ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊

   One of the reasons I hate the current mobile phone duopoly is that we're effectively forced to choose between:

   1. Company that is secretive and provides a closed ecosystem. Says it respects customers' privacy but we don't have many ways to check.

   2. Company that makes its money from data mining and surveillance but which (for now) plays nicely in the world of OSS.

   I know I've options with LineageOS and /e/ but they're derivative, not like what we were promised with Firefox OS and Ubuntu Touch

   1. neil 🍄 (neil@social.coop)'s status on Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 14:59:45 EDT neil 🍄

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      @dajbelshaw Have you looked at Ubports? Seems like it's still flying the flag for a non-duopoly option. . I like the fact they've put an emphasis on making installation easy.

      I'd love to try it but my device has a locked and encrypted bootloader so I'm kind of stuck for now.

      I wish with Firefox OS if it had been targeted to run on old phones, rather than newly manufactured Firefox OS devices.

      1. ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊ (dajbelshaw@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 15:05:09 EDT ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊

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         @neil Thanks! I'll take a look. In an ideal world, the app ecosystem wouldn't matter. In practice, it often does.

      2. ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊ (dajbelshaw@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 13-Oct-2018 15:22:05 EDT ˗ˏˋ Doug Belshaw ˎˊ˗ 🇪🇺☠️✊

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         @neil Very cool. Installing on my old OnePlus One right now...