Which is why I stay away from Google’s products too.
I guess can see how buying items second hand and flashing a ROM is not quite the same as buying a brand new phone running Android, but it seems unfair to then besmirch all iPhone users.
What do you use?
I tried pine phone, but it wasn’t usable as a daily driver.
This is the kind of acquisition where it actually benefits the community with tight integration and more financial support for open development, in the short term.
But once the Arduino community has added real value to Qualcomm, they will have already cycled through multiple executive teams post acquisition, and one of them will inevitably view all investment into Arduino as a loss center.
Then it’s only a matter of time before they paywall hardware functionality and updates behind a subscription, Arduino Pro+++.
And the behind the scene stories about the workplace environment at his companies make clear just how absurd that particular line of his is.
Whenever unions, or labor organizing get brought up, he never misses a chance to take some dig at them, including his lie how he’s such a great boss that his employees don’t need a union.
Just like how he’s such a great manufacturer that his backpacks didn’t need an actual warranty.
Linus doesn’t appear to be a terrible person, but I wouldn’t call him a good person either.
Linus is very open about his anti-union and anti-labor views, and I lost count how many times he dropped quick anti-union propaganda lines in his videos.
After it came out that he also ran a knowingly operated a hostile work environment, I unsubscribed and never looked back.
That is what I use, but it still dependent upon Google, for both software and hardware.
While I look forward to Linux phones being usable, but I haven’t had that experience yet.