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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 51 points 5 months ago (4 children)

“right to root” would prevent so much eWaste.
I would love a variant that is like, if you stop delivering security and minor fixes/backports to a device, you have to give access to root or better even to the bootloader.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 5 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

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[–] PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 7 points 5 months ago

The problem is that it allows users to detect when they're connected to a phony cell tower like the ones police and ICE use to intercept communications, and we Can't Have That.

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[–] Samskara@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

You could always boot whatever operating system you like on Macs.

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[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 1 point 5 months ago