The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It’s being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.
The Finnish company Jolla is back with the Linux-powered Jolla Phone. It’s being positioned as an antidote to the US-dominated smartphone status quo of Android and iOS.
That’s not just the fediverse, sadly. That’s most of humanity. Everyone is complaining “Oh big tech is sooo bad I want to get away from those companies” but the second you suggest options they will say: “Oh no it’s too inconvenient”. Hell, you can get away from big tech today if you wanted to, but you want it to stay as convenient as it is. You can get a privacy respecting browser, install addons that block any tracking, get an old pixel, install graphene (via the extremely comfortable web installer that every dummy can use), install linux, use an alternative search engine like DDG or searxng and you’re like 80% done.
People like to complain about big tech. But they don’t want to do anything that inconveniences them. Online activism at it’s finest.
and even when they go to alternative platforms they usually get duped to using something that isn’t really any better…
Yeah, you said it better than I.