Comment by amelius
Comment by amelius a day ago
It's an Apple problem, because with libre tools you can run your own software to circumvent this law.
Comment by amelius a day ago
It's an Apple problem, because with libre tools you can run your own software to circumvent this law.
Although effective, this particular technique does not scale very well. Even if the UK had 100,000 kidnapping wrench torturers, it would take ~2 years for them to get through to pulling everyone in the UK’s teeth.
My (grand)parents like their FOSS launcher, gallery, and chat client just fine. I've had zero questions about how Signal works, but a bunch about how to deal with the OS' pre-installed garbage spawning notifications about this or that update. They can't tell the difference between an advertisement pushed by some commercial app they want and a smartwatch firmware update notification
From my POV, it's the commercial software that has fundamental usability issues due to misaligned incentives (not completely different either, but not as aligned as FOSS). They just have a better lobby and marketing budget. Chrome didn't become this ubiquitous on mobile by having to be downloaded from f-droid, but by making a deal that device manufacturers cannot refuse
Did you have to state that as a question? (I obviously install even FB and Watsapp in there)
It's unthinkable to setup a phone with whatsapp and fb here. When meta had a BGP problem, they (the older ones) asked me why there was "no internet"
You can run your own software, but if asked by UK authorities to provide the keys/password and you don't comply you face prison time.