Doubtful, phone vendors already had access to binary blobs to run Linux (Android) on them.

It’s no surprise Valve who is buying those SOCs is also provided with them.

Alexandropolis is 45km from the border, Istanbul is another 200km on a straight line (thus more).

There’s an international border crossing in between and probably potential for heavy traffic around Istanbul.

Edit: stupid math mistake

Sure kid.

I am not misrepresenting his point, you are misrepresenting my point with this ‘truth is what matter’ fixation when discussing his intent. While not actually care about him being untrue.

You have attacked me, calling me a liar, a fanboy, a poser etc. You are only here to troll.

There are android phones outside Google’s garden that will remain outside it’s walls. Apple’s walled garden vs Google’s future wall garden is a false dilemma.

Yes. People have been correcting him on the Mac OS thing. Which you said was irrelevant several times.

Yes, you on the other hand consider it relevant, yet you don’t have an issue with him making that point but with me.

I, remember, said it is not. Because again, this is not about what you like, it’s about what is true.

I answered on whether he was trying to justify Microsoft’s actions or not. In that regard it does not matter whether it true or not, him bringing it up is an attempt to normalize Microsoft’s actions. What would matter is him knowingly lying about it instead of being wrong but I am not going to accuse him of that.

On that note, the breakdown of what is sent, how and when is absolutely dependent on your account login. If it was not then there would be nothing to complain about. That doesn’t mean they don’t send anything without an account (unless you’re not online at all, obviously), but the payload of information will be different and in some cases some calls may be dependent on you having an ID in the first place. Plus there’s the question of whether unsigned users leave any connection to the account that activated the Windows install. Which I don’t know about and you clearly don’t care about.

I 'd rather disable telemetry totally. Windows does have installation wide keys, even if Microsoft right now does use it to connect accounts to local accounts they can at will.

I do agree with you that “I installed Linux for my grandma” is not “helping”, either, but I didn’t say I do that, either.

It helped my family just as installing windows for my friends helps my friends if not my ego.

Yes to all that!

Everybody is biased but usually the deeper the connection one has to a side the more biased he is. I 've been just a user of Linux since 2010, he worked for Microsoft for longer.

If you really are interested in accurate information, you are not very good at it. People are disputing his statements on MacOS in this very thread, on the OP in fact.

Telemetry does not depend on using a remote account, if you don’t disable the relevant settings and services windows will still send data to Microsoft. Obviously a Microsoft account provides more identifying information to Microsoft.

I wonder why most people, according to you at least, warned that Microsoft would disable previous methods but Plummer doesn’t.

As for all that ‘agenda, hardcore, uncompromising’ bullshit, I 've only installed Linux on my own and my immediate family’s computers, cause they are the computers I will have to fix (or fix) if they are not working. I have installed Windows many more times both on my own machines as well on friends etc because that’s what they wanted. There’s no point in pushing stuff on people.

You on the other hand seem to think I should be helping with something, presumably something you are pushing for?

Finally I did not post any misinformation.

Am I missing something? Non-paid versions also have to opt-in, no?

I mean he used to work there, so yeah?

He is biased.

The factual accuracy of his statements about MacOS is irrelevant to whether he is making excuses or not. Their relevancy to you switching to another OS is another issue.

I don’t care about MacOS not having the same issue because I don’t own a Mac nor do I plan on buying one. Nobody even asks me to run MacOS software or help them with their Mac. Windows is unfortunately much more pervasive and unavoidable.

The major issue with these workarounds is that they are presented as permanent solutions. They are not, just like Microsoft took away OOBE or whatever they did, they can also disable local accounts in the future. Kicking the can down the road will not work forever.

Delusional apple fanboy.

I don’t need a my phone to be a ‘flagship’. I am not an influencer. I also wonder what loads are you running on a phone that you meet performance issues.

You can get an android with microSD and 3.5mm jack for 250€.

You can still run all the software you want. Adblockers, torrent clients, emulators, even… browsers! There will still be new android phones that won’t suffer those limitations. They will also be cheaper than iphones.

Don’t get me wrong android is in a bad trajectory, it’s true that’s Google has been enshitificating as much as it can get away with. It’s still light years ahead of iOS.

If anybody cares for privacy or control of their devices, saving Android, even in alternative versions/vendors, is a much more viable option than switching to iPhone.

Developer ID verification will be part of Google Play and won’t be present in GrapheneOS

Straight from the horse’s mouth. The rest of the post is a good reminder that GrapheneOS are morons.

But why would you lie about this?

Because one walled garden does not exist yet. Because it’s possible to get around the proposed walled garden. Because there are android manufacturers that ship phones that are not going to be affected by this.

But no lets just promote the whole iOS and Android are 100% the same (not Apple and Google, those are the same) and give up on fighting those changes.

Whether MacOS truly also requires an account is irrelevant.

He says it to make the account requirement appear normal. That’s justification. Providing a ‘workaround’ via a ‘burner’ account is simply a way to minimize protests. Even the use of ‘burner’ and ‘workaround’ normalizes the account requirement.

The man has some good videos but he is Microsoft through and through.

Let me guess, we’re I Danish (or when this shit spreads to my country) I would have identify my accounts to the government and or corporations.

“same as MacOS” is clearly trying to make excuses.

DRM is not free, somebody is getting paid to provide that DRM and they certainly don’t go unpaid if it doesn’t work.

You can just escape the spaces with a \ .

They didn’t kill them all in 1945 you know.

You are going to protest that they 've learned from that. They just learned not to say the word Nazi just like they learned not to oppose Jews instead of opposing genocide.

Why would it be more difficult to maintain and update a complex system?

They don’t have to accept outsider contributions on their mainline nor employ less people to work on it.

You don’t get to redefine open source. It’s always been about giving the source code to whoever you give the software.

Making it publicly available is an acceptable alternative to fulfill that obligation.