Democratisation of powerful tools won’t work because it’s easier to use for destruction than for the opposite. Every psychopath designing superbugs and inventing future weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c

More like; it’s cheap when you have no tolerance and no daily habit. You start paying if you let your consumption grow 50-fold.

https://www.quora.com/Will-there-ever-be-an-ergonomic-laptop/answer/Harri-K-Hiltunen

Because things too, on average, lose value over time when materials degrade and better models come out. Inflation saves the trouble of reducing the old price.

I just wish the new models were better than the old ones.

There are many custom ROMs based on AOSP: GrapheneOS (for security against hacking and confiscation), LineageOS and its descendants /e/OS, iodéOS, and crDroid, etc. CalyxOS is not doing well right now, but it should be back in a few months.

Make sure you can relock the bootloader after installing to protect against attacks through the USB connector.

Murena ships /e/OS preinstalled on the European Fairphone and Shiftphone. Iodé similarly.

Then there’s Volla phone which can have Linux (Ubuntu Touch) and and VollaOS (AOSP-based) on the same phone. There are other Linux phones, but nobody recommends them for normal consumers.

Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.

(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)

Not CalyxOS right now.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

I went with /e/OS, and it works well, even bank apps.