I think pretty much any of the mainstream distros can be trusted as long as you make sure to check for any “opt-in” voluntary things that many people choose to allow. It’s good to help the developers do a better job ongoing to keep the distros as good as they can be. So if you have a reason to not want any of it, just check the options to make sure you know they’re shut off.

There are probably some distros which explicitly make a point to have absolutely no data sent, but you need to take into consideration what the best distro is for your needs irrespective of this one factor, since none are going to do this behind your back to the magnitude of Windoze or ChromeOS.

I have an Lposed module that you can indicate which apps you want to block updates for so they don’t get updated, regardless what any given shop tries. Easier than toggling it off for all those specific apps within each of Fdroid, Droidify, and Aurora.

There’s also Obtanium that lets you do updates a different way as well.

As for removing apps you can do so on any brew as long as you have root privileges. Sometimes you can even without, via ADB unless they’ve prevented it.

So I mean basically Linux phone doesn’t really need to be used as a way of making this an easier thing to accomplish. Root is right away the ultimate solution, and a custom ROM even better.

I don’t think I know what rocm is 🤪

The dude is gonna drop dead pretty soon anyway. He’s starting to look like Palpatine.

Yeah but conservatives don’t believe in mental health, remember? That’s why American healthcare practically considers it an indulgence.

Brave New World got it even better because in that book, everyone welcomed oppression with open arms and celebrated it.

Psssst. They’re “in on it.”

And the typical consumer has no critical thinking skills and also, is ignorant, and very often a moron, and a sucker. People aren’t smart. The appliances are lol. And the people at the top of giant companies have a greed that is insatiable.

Lesson: never buy an appliance that has internet connectivity.

They won’t get less than a dollar; they’ll get a coupon toward additional purchase from the sued company.

Class action is only about punishing the company and not minding that lawyers will pocket all the proceeds.

Isn’t anything that goes badly an expected consequence of willingly being Google’s lab rat?

Boy, they’re all really determined to thank all their customers by saying “fuck you,” aren’t they.

If only we could unite and make our demands, as consumers, and take down a company as a sacrficial lamb… If only people could be persuaded to unify for a revolution. Makes me sad that most people would always put their immediate self-interests above the potential for long-term satisfaction for all (well, nearly probably).

I do talk about this quite a lot, and honestly years ago I was preparing to spearhead this kind of thing, except a lot of things in my life got in the way. I even had a domain ready for a few years, but ultimately I couldn’t take on the project.

The way things are trending nowadays though, maybe I’ll eventually try again, as my life is different and maybe I could make it happen. We’ll see. Because I think pretty soon nobody will have any choices anymore whatsoever in any aspect of their lives.

They don’t have to worry much because now that Android is about to lock folks out of their biggest selling point, there will be a lot of migration to iPhone.

And unlike iPhones, Androids allow you to pop in a microSD chip. It’s not even very expensive now to buy a 1TB! How can anyone run out of space anymore?

True! Kinda nudging up against the fourth wall.

I don’t know why that’s funny.

I don’t really know why you’re asking it phrasing quite that way, but the Higgs Boson was discovered numerous years ago. You probably meant to say now that we have… it just read as though it was something yet to be achieved.

What’s so beautiful about it is that it was such a testament to the scientific method because it was established that it would have to exist to explain observed phenomena, and then it was identified. Oftentimes things are discovered and then explained/defined etc. but science can work to establish such reliable knowledge that we knew it had to be there, and then we found it. Kind of like some archaeological discoveries. Just some of the beauty of science.

Most are not really in need of any updates I would think. Aside from some, I’d venture to guess these are standalone systems running machinery. If they’re linked up then it’s with something else that’s not really vulnerable such as Lantastic or Novell maybe? Or I could be talking out of my ass entirely. But these are not systems that they need to worry about the modern threats of cyberspace.

More like great great great grandpa, realistically. I think it’s absolutely commendable that anyone has maintained compatibility with it for this long. Expected? Hell no. Deserved? Arguable on either side. But mighty damn admirable that the effort was made.

The speed of tech in many sectors tends to just blast away and leave everything behind and say screw it, keep up of fuck off. The classic desktop architecture seems to be where they’ve held off of that mentality the longest and with most integrity.

I don’t even know what to make of this, I just know, it’s pure Larson. LOL.