Fungi4All wrote: > After meshing around a bit more with this pseudo debian environment > I am convinced that it is not worth my time and effort to deal with this. > I am taping it on top of my guitar amp to play mp3s as backing/practice > tracks and I think that it is the best it is good for
I've gone the way already (at least in theory). This is why I advise, if you want a device like tablet or phone to be fully in your control, then go for Jolla/Sailfish.. At the moment there is no alternative in my opinion. As for some conspiracy chips with embedded rom .... if you have basic engineering knowledge you could easily identify all of it and to my knowledge it is not trivial to embed such a chip into a mass product, especially a mobile phone. There were servers in the past, where NSA plugged in special chips before those machines were shipped to china, but it did not last long and the chineese found out. So keep your eyes open and think twice before you buy something and use it - this is my advise regards