We should have the ability to run any code we want on hardware we own

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2071 points K0nserv | 2 comments | 31 Aug 25 21:46 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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liendolucas ◴[01 Sep 25 06:04 UTC] No.45089885[source]▶

One of the biggest problems (if not the biggest) is that this desire is still a niche desire. If non-techie people would somehow be convinced that indeed hardware/software freedom is a basic right no matter the device we would be in a different position to pressure governments.

How can people be convinced about it is the hardest part. How do you convince people that have no idea about how technology and corporation interests work that the little device that you carry is bascially a brick at the mercy of its vendors?

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1. edg5000 ◴[01 Sep 25 06:29 UTC] No.45090029[source]▶

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I do think there is growing discontent with MS and Google, and you see Linux sentiment changing and the userbase growing. But it's still a small fraction of the populus even though it's grown a lot in the last decade probably

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2. SirHumphrey ◴[01 Sep 25 10:48 UTC] No.45091564[source]▶

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One should not forget the reason for this growth though - the issues with privacy and users' control of devices on windows go back at least a decade, but most of this time nobody cared. It was only when Microsoft locked a lot of old computers out of Windows 11, Windows 11 proved a buggy slow mess, the google search results went down the toilet and the amount of adds on YouTube increased several times did people start to talk about "de-googling" and moving to Linux.

People are switching to Linux now because it works better. The privacy is still a nice-to-have bonus.

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