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1. medhir+Lg1[view] [source] 2025-08-26 03:18:33
>>kotaKa+(OP)
Every day we stray farther from the premise that we should be allowed to install / modify software on the computers we own.

Will once again re-up the concept of a “right to root access”, to prevent big corps from pulling this bs over and over again: https://medhir.com/blog/right-to-root-access

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2. isodev+4w1[view] [source] 2025-08-26 06:12:09
>>medhir+Lg1
I see no other way than regulation to force the two to provide drivers and manuals for alternative OS makers.

We should've nipped it with Apple, but there was so much _whatabout_ing that the conversation always go sidetracked with assertions about the free market and what not. It turns out, there is no free market, and we're just living in someone's managed device walled garden.

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