10-17-2021, 12:48 AM
(10-16-2021, 08:51 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: I don't see that as necessary at all, and in fact one of the reasons I use a Pinephone is that it is not possible to run those kind of tyrannical smartphone applications. <snip>
(10-16-2021, 09:28 PM)KC9UDX Wrote: I agree. I don't have a PinePhone (yet) but to me this is one of the best reasons to get one. <snip>
(10-16-2021, 10:18 PM)bigtreeman Wrote: It's amazing how sense has gone out the window with the pandemic. <snip>
(10-16-2021, 10:37 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: The point is that if you want a phone that will spy on you down to every location you visit and every person you have contact with (at least those carrying another spyphone), there are plenty to choose from that will happily do so right out of the box, and will let you load as many additional spying "apps" as you desire. <snip>
I second all of the above. The day that the Pine community embraces COVID cult aps, thus supporting the global totalitarian regime behind such freedom and life-destroying weapons, is the day I drive over my Pinephone with my 3 ton mini excavator and then proceed to dig a very deep hole in the ground in which to wholeheartedly and ceremonially bury its remains!
I view the Pinephone as a response to the current establishment's tyranny. It serves no purpose if it devolves to aid and abet it!
(10-16-2021, 10:37 PM)Zebulon Walton Wrote: I'm not going to get into the politics of it, this isn't the place. Ditto the legitimate reasons for questioning what we are being told.<snip>
From reading your posts over the last year plus, Zeb W., I think we're likely kindred spirits (and of similar vocational backgrounds and generational vintage) but I believe the global situation is now so utterly dire that EVERYPLACE is the place for dissent and discourse--at least as much as will be tolerated by others. (Getting oneself censored certainly doesn't advance our cause.)
BTW, I watched Stef Monlyneux's documentary, "Hong Kong: Fight for Freedom", long before I became a member of the Pine community. Since then, I've watched it again. It now makes me even more sad!
https://www.freedomain.com/documentaries/
