BrilliantBadger

Legit concern & lots of good comments on the device side of things so I’ll just toss in that another perhaps far easier approach for fascist regimes would be to force telcos, ISPs to permit online access only once registered, similar to a hotel guest WiFi. Only of course more rigidly enforced & monitored.

Thus removing the device itself from the equation, and using infrastructure as the chokepoint.

Future generations are largely doomed by the apathy of the “we have nothing to hide” folks of today, or those who buy into the its “for the children” movement.

Horrifying for the generations to come, as it all advances from multiple angles to 1984 reality

Legit concern , though why just Windows? Plausible its built right into the silicone of every device & unreliant upon an OS. Each country forcing manufacturers to build into the chipset whichever spyware they wish, registering each time its online.

Many different angles, but the end game is clear. Most folks will just willingly be onboard with it, its “for the children”, right? Aso long as they control the masses that’s really all that matters to them. You bring up a great concern, and the cat & mouse game needed for android phones today with privacy focused roms shows the challenges that only get harder the further it gets baked into the chipsets.

Just ordered a cheap Nord N100 should arrive soon, just for purpose of testing/running UT. Tried UT little over a year ago, as someone else mentioned the VoLTE is/was a full stopper in USA, which sounds like progress made(?) based on user comments

I’ll work around loss of apps, for example banking app if I have a good browser. Sure, more painful but I only need that in a pinch. Same for many other missing apps

Build around a solid browser experience I think would ease the transition, for people like myself who are slowly heading toward a more “dumb phone” experience and back to PC/laptop for most needs. I am likely a minority there though

Looks like uWolf browser and a new one (to me) called Merezhyvo Browser are having good success

In any case, look forward to seeing how it goes this time around :)

Fedora Silverblue has been utterly fantastic for me. Only item layered is Opensnitch which is of course also amazing

When I look for new distros to try immutables are highest on my preferred list, Aeon & Kinoite, also very nice, can’t go wrong with any of these IMO