On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 20:11:29 +0000 Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:13:03 -0500 > Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:03:21 +0000 > > Joe <j...@jretrading.com> wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > proper email client or webmail. I have to admit I use a netbook > > > while away from home, as I have both "smart"phone and tablet, but > > > they are extremely limited toys and they are owned by Google. If I > > > need a mobile computer, then I want a real computer, and one where > > > I have root access. > > > > A smartphone running something like LineageOS is not really owned by > > Google (although there are still the very real problems of binary > > blobs and the baseband black box stuff). If you get one with an > > unlocked bootloader, you can have root as well. They're certainly not > > quite the same thing as a "real" computer, admittedly. > > > > I'm not really comfortable about downloading a random rooting tool from
Fair points, certainly. But things like LineageOS, TWRP, and Magisk are not just "random rooting tools" - they are legitimate, well-established open source projects (although I would concede that they are probably somewhat less "adult" and responsible than something like the Debian project we know and love ;)) > the Net, and I have the impression, rightly or wrongly, that writers of > software for phones and tablets take the same kind of proprietorial > view of other peoples' devices as writers of Windows software. Well, that's probably true of developers in the mainstream smartphone ecosystems, but I don't think it is generally true of the FLOSS developers for such devices, and particularly not with regard to the members of sub-communities like F-Droid. > That's my main objection to using Windows: not so much the OS itself as > the tendency for writers of software to believe that they own *my* > computer, and can do what they like with it and with my data. Certainly. Celejar