[blackeyeblitzar]

The world needs a third party software and hardware stack that isn’t controlled by big tech walled garden monopolists / authoritarians. Not just for phones but laptops and computers too. As far as phones go, unfortunately the best alternative I’ve heard of is Graphene and the best phone for Graphene is the Pixel series. And I assume using it as a daily driver is problematic without access to various apps or maybe if websites block them or even carriers - not sure.

[WillAdams]

This is why my next tech purchase will be a Raspberry Pi 5 and a Wacom One 13" touch screen --- my testing with a Raspberry Pi 4 and Wacom One (gen 1, no touch) went well, so I'm hopeful that this will work as well.

[karma_pharmer]

^ totally oblivious that he is trapped in the Broadcom Pi walled garden.

[WillAdams]

It would be nice to use some totally open firmware, but that's a big swing in terms of finance relative to the inexpensiveness of the rPi.

That said, I believe I can live with:

https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/561/is-the-b...

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=340024

If someone would make a decent tablet with opensource underpinnings and Wacom EMR, I'd be glad to consider it.

[karma_pharmer]

Nevermind open firmware, just ask for an ecosystem that isn't completely controlled by one company named Broadcom.

Broadcom Pi.

It's called Broadcom Pi.

The fruit names are just a naked attempt at BigTech-laundering.

[WillAdams]

At least it's a company which will allow alternative OSs.

I'm still quite annoyed that I set aside and stopped using my Samsung Galaxy Book 12 because I couldn't figure out how to get it to boot something other than Windows.

[bossyTeacher]

The world is reactive, never proactive