> but a properly security-paranoid home automation aficionado wouldn't be caught dead giving some proprietary black box power and network inside their own home.
Don't even get me started. :( It gives me pangs of cognitive dissonance every time I use my Android phone to type up a rant about how creepy Google is. I'd love to walk the talk, but my impression is that FOSS Linux phones aren't really viable yet if you're interested in things like, you know, functional power management or a Bluetooth stack that actually works.