Buy big tech, get big tech.

People get upset that apparently “it is litteraly impossible to buy a smartphone without AI” while there are plenty of alternatives, but instead of putting in the effort to learn they would rather blame an abstract technology and buy the next IPhone anyway.

Well atleast me, everyone at my job, the hospital, the government… probably most of the world?

This definitely depends on the banking app

my bank’s app worked fine using waydroid, but others may not.

I’m not expecting people to flash custom roms, but both the pinephone and Jolla phone come pre-installed with open source os without AI.

If you don’t want to switch you never have to see a terminal. As easy as any other phone.

So the statement “litteraly cannot buy a smartphone without AI” is false.

I’m sure that atleast some of the 99.99999% are smart enough to unbox a phone, insert a sim card and press the “call” button.

you literally are forced to use AI in your home.

What forces you to use AI in your home?

you literally cannot buy a smartphone without ai

There are probably plenty more but 2 is already alot higher then “litteraly cannot buy”

https://pine64.com/product/pinephone-beta-edition-with-convergence-package/

https://commerce.jolla.com/products/jolla-phone-sep-ii-2026

Or if you simply want to flash

https://postmarketos.org/

https://lineageos.org/

Losing a vital plane now when you are at war then it doesn’t really matter if it might get replaced sometime far in the future

You don’t have to be a tankie or a wankie to recognize the fact that a loss ratio of 0% is very good for an aircraft.

If it was a Russian or Chinese aircraft doing this then that would also be a fact.

It’s stupid to say that a single aircraft being damaged makes the entire type worthless like many here are saying when the F-35 is the only aircraft flying these missions and come back with only damage to a single plane.

That is not a political statement or approval of the strikes. That’s just a statement on the plane.

For the all the probably hundreds of sorties flown with a result of zero losses and only a single aircraft being damaged they might aswell be invisible.

I think everyone has once thought of the idea of taking an sbc and a touchscreen and making a linux phone, cool to actually see one!

Why does it matter what is replaced?

I would say if it frees up a human from having to do it that it’s good news.

“must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires”

It’s hard to disagree with that statement but all this upheaval about “killing jobs” seems really pointless to me.

A manual farm has far more employees then one that uses modern machinery, is the economy in decline if the farmer replaces human labor with machines?

Good stuff, Ukraine has proven again that having a nuclear arsenal is really the only way to ensure a country’s security when faced wirh a hostile nuclear armed neighbor.