Mobile phones have already been incredibly successful in normalizing that the expensively bought device you use to organize your entire life does not belong to you but to the manufacturer, and in...
Mobile phones have already been incredibly successful in normalizing that the expensively bought device you use to organize your entire life does not belong to you but to the manufacturer, and in the case of Android also a random third party that managed to position itself incredibly well since inception.
Root is basically taboo from what I can tell, even though standard Linux manages to make it work perfectly well. Root effectively means that the final authority over the device is the end user instead of the sw maker, that is all.
Loading different software from the stock nag/ad/bloat/telemetryware is also discouraged massively and not very common.
So now there is likely to be forced control over what sw the end user can run and it is honestly not that big of a leap.
This is the result of computer literacy being critically low and basically seen as a nerd thing when it is critically important to the long term personal and societal prospects because of the massive importance of computers. If the end user does not care someone else will be really glad to as we are seeing real time.
It is basically impossible to get standard users to care. I assume because the effect is insufficiently visible to the here and now so can this latest restriction even do that?
I agree with you completely. I used to joke if I had a child I would give them a Linux computer (or a box of parts and an A+ Certification book) and when they figured it out they would be allowed...
I agree with you completely.
I used to joke if I had a child I would give them a Linux computer (or a box of parts and an A+ Certification book) and when they figured it out they would be allowed to do what they wanted to do.
Instead I just didn't have kids because ... gestures widely.
I've been thinking about finding a new mobile operating system for the past few weeks since I heard about Google's changes regarding my ability to install software outside of their garden. The market looks weak. There looks to be very few if any fully viable options.
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Mobile phones have already been incredibly successful in normalizing that the expensively bought device you use to organize your entire life does not belong to you but to the manufacturer, and in the case of Android also a random third party that managed to position itself incredibly well since inception.
Root is basically taboo from what I can tell, even though standard Linux manages to make it work perfectly well. Root effectively means that the final authority over the device is the end user instead of the sw maker, that is all.
Loading different software from the stock nag/ad/bloat/telemetryware is also discouraged massively and not very common.
So now there is likely to be forced control over what sw the end user can run and it is honestly not that big of a leap.
This is the result of computer literacy being critically low and basically seen as a nerd thing when it is critically important to the long term personal and societal prospects because of the massive importance of computers. If the end user does not care someone else will be really glad to as we are seeing real time.
It is basically impossible to get standard users to care. I assume because the effect is insufficiently visible to the here and now so can this latest restriction even do that?
I agree with you completely.
I used to joke if I had a child I would give them a Linux computer (or a box of parts and an A+ Certification book) and when they figured it out they would be allowed to do what they wanted to do.
Instead I just didn't have kids because ... gestures widely.
I've been thinking about finding a new mobile operating system for the past few weeks since I heard about Google's changes regarding my ability to install software outside of their garden. The market looks weak. There looks to be very few if any fully viable options.
Do you land at the same assessment?