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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by autoexec on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:10PM (#34826234)
That kind of phone goes so far to protect your privacy it won't even let you use it to call anyone. (https://www.techrepublic.com/article/librem-5-review-the-lin...). The real solution is regulation with lots of teeth and oversight, so we don't have to depend on flawed products that don't work.
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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by fsflover on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:13PM (#34826275)
This is an extremely old review, when the software was in beta. Phone calls are working fine for me now.

Regulations are great, but I prefer to have both kinds of defense.

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Re:Forget Milk and Eggs: Supermarkets Are Having a Fire Sale... by autoexec on Thursday February 16, 2023 @04:21PM (#34826428)
That's a good sign! I'd given up all hope for the Librem and pinephone. I guess it's time to take another look...

I agree that hardware switches are ideal, but I don't see them being common since most of the folks pushing out phones want to use those devices to collect data on the people who buy them.

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