It's not free. You pay with your privacy.

what are some non-shitty phones you recommend that do not spy on me and do not obey somebody else instead of me?

No technology becomes cheap and widespread right at the beginning.

Not acceptable for what? It's my daily driver now.

You may want to write to hn@ycombinator.com.

Folks seeing this can also flag it. Will likely get their attention faster.

Flagging does not necessary bring attention of the mods. It just hides the submission from those who did not turn on "show dead".

> has every order been fulfilled yet?

Yes, and it's mentioned in TFA.

> the slowest phone you could spend money on

https://puri.sm/posts/the-danger-of-focusing-on-specs/

> ANCIENT Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 you can get in a $20 flip phone from Walmart Right Now has performance cores

And you will not control your main computing device, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463347

Are you missing the whole point of computing freedom? I suggest you to read the FSF: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-impor...

Yep exactly. Broken from design stage. So that engineer were talking about is... Satoshi!?

not such a genius after all /s

> And then came the greedy grifters. They invested money not just to get returns (they could've gotten returns on any other established field of business), but to gamble for a chance of crazy high returns. They thought software has near-zero marginal cost. They started building walled gardens, to extract rent from users. Build insane profits on that near-zero initial cost.

It looks like you are talking about enshittification: https://pluralistic.net/2024/08/17/hack-the-planet/. There are strong NGOs fighting for the user rights like https://eff.org and https://edri.org.

Please stop with the security/privacy nihilism, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897975.

Why is this downvoted? OP is simply suggesting to give up, ignoring many intermediate victories in the war for privacy. Consider supporting https://www.eff.org/issues/privacy instead.

Agreed.