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Re:Android and iOS data collection by jstanley on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:31AM (#28743093)
> How's the driver situation? Lots of proprietary blobs?

Even if this is the case, what are you going to do? Buy a normal phone? That will just get you even more proprietary blobs.

You shouldn't let aversion to proprietary blobs put you off getting a PinePhone if all the other options you'd consider contain more proprietary blobs.

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Re:Android and iOS data collection by matheusmoreira on Monday October 04, 2021 @12:46AM (#28743194)
> Buy a normal phone? That will just get you even more proprietary blobs.

Google's apparently trying to get all these manufacturers to contribute their drivers to the kernel. Not sure how successful they've been.

I was hoping the situation would be better here. Proprietary Linux drivers suck. Even nvidia drivers have caused instability in my system before, switching to nouveau fixed it. I hate those things so much.

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