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  • Security is not a state but a scale, and is gauged against everything else.

    From the perspective of a privacy / security zealot, a smartphone is SOL as soon as they lave the factory, as not only not even OTA updates keep them safe (and you can argue that with some manufacturers such as Samsung, OTA does is the primary risk vector!) but they can eg.: ship with unfixable vulns at the hardware level that would lead to ditch the whole thing anyway.

    So long as there isn’t something like a state-funded program for citizens to renew their phones every ~2 years for fully open ones, I’d not worry much. After all, the other option would be not using a phone because current ones are a PITA and just as vulnerable from the other end.











  • Think about it, do you really want to have X11 going forward the next decades?

    If the alternative is a new system that literally does nothing? Sure!

    Want to present a menu for windows? Wayland: “lol, do it yourself”.

    Want to position a window? Wayland: “lol, do it yourself”.

    Want to remember that a window has a position? Wayland: “lol, do it yourself”.

    Want to add a global keyboard shortcut? Wayland: “AAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

    X11 may be old and whatever you want, but it works and it’s battle-tested. Wayland can’t even launch a full desktop session in my machine, which is even less than the failure Pulseaudio was back in its day and that’s saying something. And even if it did somehow launch, I probably would not be able to use anything serious like a media player or multiple workspaces on it.