re-normalize direct download and manual installation (aka side-loading) of software on our mobile microcomputers.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

re-normalize direct download and manual installation (aka side-loading) of software on our mobile microcomputers.

mobile phones are microcomputers with telephony.

we should have a right to the root directory of our microcomputers ―to install any software we want―, just as with our laptop and desktop computers.

https://eicker.news/@technews/115342245890643580

AND REMEMBER

the #techbros Silicon Valley fascistocracy would have never existed without the stalkerware they peddle as “smart” phones

[mayintoronto@beige.party]

@blogdiva I don't know if the software industry knows how to ship on prem anymore. I'd love to see it come back.

[blogdiva@mastodon.social]

@mayintoronto if “little” apps like Obsidian and Mastodon can, you know there is no reason for others to not do so.

[calcprogrammer1@mastodon.social]

@blogdiva To really make this a reality we need a significant adoption of third-party mobile OSes, because neither Apple nor Google are gonna give us anything like it. Google is actively taking it away. We need more support for #LinuxMobile operating systems like #postmarketOS. If you want your phone to just be a tiny PC look no further, because mobile Linux is just desktop Linux shrunk down. Sideload all you want, compile your own software on device, it's completely open.

[riley@toot.cat]

@blogdiva A cellphone that you can't program is like a devil that you can't bargin with. All of the evil, none of the rule lawyering.

[oblomov@sociale.network]

@blogdiva coincidentally, I just blogged in a similar vein some 10 days ago:

https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/not-your-pc/

(arguably not so coincidentally: as the grip is tightening, more and more people gain awareness about their loss of control —hopefully not too late.)