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I think there are 3 reasonable options (that I’m pursuing currently): Linux on a phone designed for Android I’ve tried a few different models of phone. I’m currently running mobile nixos on a OnePlus 6, but waiting on Plasma Mobile to be fully functional. When I last played with it a couple months ago, the virtual keyboard was broken. Nothing else I’ve tried has had all features on the phone work. A small Linux laptop with a mobile network card I am trying to set up an MNT Pocket Reform as a phone replacement. The hardware is almost there. The software and firmware have a bit of a ways to go, but it has promise for a subset of people. A Linux-first phone-like device There are some phones that are set up with PostmarketOS or other mobile Linux distributions from the manufacturer, but they right now tend to be really pricey, under-performing, and don’t really have upstream support. The Mecha Comet seems to be another interesting option. I’ve pre-ordered one and I’m excited to see what it’s capable of.

related testimony from a fellow friend of the fediverse against a bill in Colorado from last night: here, starting at 7:12pm

I’m upset at both ID gate laws and the lack of strong anti-trust action. I’m also not going to assume a person only talking about one at a given time isn’t also upset at the other. Discussions about what people “should” talk about are for leaders in organized movements to have with each other to create the most effective response. Doing so in a public setting like this isn’t high-minded or insightful, it’s a waste of breath. If you care about strategies and tactics, you can join an organized movement, move up in the organization, and have a real say.

I don’t know if you meant to, but you completely ignored the point. Your comment directly quoted @1dalm@1dalm@lemmy.today and edited out “OS” and “browser”. You then began talking about how “services” have an obligation.

At its core, neither an operating system nor a browser is a service. They are effectively data that the users are serving to themselves. There are certainly some operating systems and browsers that contain the ability to connect a service as a plugin or (I would say) maliciously include a connection to a service by default such as targeted advertising, but those services are neither the OS nor the browser.