alt Hacker NewsGoing to be contrarian.
Why not build your own hardware and run your own software on it, instead of screaming at clouds of big tech.
There is Fairphone as an example so it is possible to build/buy hardware directly.
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const_cast • yesterday at 5:48 PM
Yes, let me just invest 100 billion dollars into creating my own device so that I'm not censored by one of the biggest companies on Earth.
Jesus fucking Christ. We're asking for a drop here from a mega corporation, and still there will be people bending over backwards and spreading their cheeks and actually begging for it. Its not enough to get fucked, we actually have to want to get fucked, and not wanting it is weird or something.
> Why not build your own hardware
Haven't looked at this in depth, but designing and manufacturing a phone with a similar miniaturization level and performance to commercial models is a huge electronics/firmware/design engineering challenge. Additionally, often the datasheets for processors, etc. are difficult to obtain and/or under NDA.
Nothing a group of determined engineers with the funding and connections couldn't achieve, but it's no easy task. Fairphone required a few million $ to develop the first model.
Either way, developing software is hard enough - having to build hardware too moves the project toward "pipe dream" territory IMO.