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Anti-Corporate Movement

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This community is the first one on lemmy of its kind. It sits between the idea of anarchism/anti-capitalism and left leaning economic policy.

Our goal is to make people aware of the dangers of corporate control, its influence on governments and people as well as the small but steady abrasion of empathy around the world indirectly caused by it.

Current topics this includes but is not limited to:

Feel free to debate this but beware, corporate rhetoric is not welcome here. If you have arguments, bring them on. If its rhetoric trying to defend the evil actions of corporations, we will know and you will go.

Our declared goal so far is to have all companies and individuals worldwide capped at 999 mil USD in all assets, including ownership of other companies, sister companies and marital assets. The reason for this is that companies (and individuals) are not supposed to resemble small(?) countries with a single leader(-board) and shareholder primacy. Thats why we feel like they must be kept in check indefinitely.

But companies will just wander off The argument that large companies will just wander off is valid, which we embrace. We dont need microsoft, apple, google, amazon and other trillion dollar companies. There are small competitors being kept small and driven into brankruptcy by anti competitive behavior of these giants or simply bought up and closed. If starbucks left tomorrow, we would not have an issue with this.

But then we have x little microsofts that all belong to the same person(s) If in fact nobody was allowed to accumulate more than 999 mil in assets, they would not be able to own all these. And like defending agains burglary, it is not about complete defence but time and effort. You only have to keep the thief occupied long enough for them to be caught, give up or make a mistake.

But these giants have tons of IP which would then limit our growth Thats another topic we must touch on. We will (only this one time) take a page out of russias playbook and demand that IP of non complying companies (assets over 999 mil USD) will be declared invalid, which opens them up to be copied.

But then they will "live" in one country that doesnt accept this Correct, and they should be taken into custody the moment they enter the airspace of a country that supports this act.

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Getting an old phone with postmarket OS might be the way to go. (lemmy.giftedmc.com)
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I‘m currently using an old iphone since I bought it before I knew much about apple and it was advertised for its long lifespan.

The problems I have with apples policy and the way I cant use this phone like i want to are driving me to want a different phone.

But the discussion I had about alternative OSs feels very biased. A lot of folks seem to be mostly focused on privacy^tm^, not owning your device.

What do I mean by that?

If you buy a computer, most people got windows with it. Some upgraded as soon as a new OS came out, some waited until the old one ran out. But it used to be that you can keep your device many years until it cant really run anything anymore. With linux its a different ballgame but out of the scope of this post.

Phones are a fashion item

Not so with phones. Some drop support for their phones like a hot potato but no phone keeps being supported after 5 yrs (apple) or three yrs (android phones mostly), some even earlier.

Manufacturers keep telling us its for safety or performance but the advancements in mobile computing arent that huge imo.

Privacy is a trend

And people seem to not care, not even most alternative os users. Graphene OS, running on pixel phones, seems to also drop support when the manufacturer support runs out.

This is, at its core, a terrible situation. But nobody seems to talk about it. These phones are not broken, they are getting intentionally „soft bricked“. The manufacturers could release the codes to sign software for these devices from what I read. They could make it easy for the community to support them.

We are being manipulated

But they condemn our hardware to the landfill and us to do their bidding and buy new as well as ruining our climate even further.

Thats why decided to go with postmarket os and buy an old phone. I‘ll try to get it working as best I can and also try to help with development since I have some skills.

please help

That said, if you have tech skills, consider helping with making old phones work longer either by testing postmarket os or others. Alternatively you can help developing this community project.

But even without tech knowledge, you can sign this petition to make manufacturers open their devices to us after support ends.

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[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

The issue here to me seems to be a theoretical opinion without actual knowledge about the topic. Feel free to correct my assumption.

Developing an operating system is not an easy task but it has been done many times. The issue atm are solely the drivers which are locked behind intellectual property laws.

Phones also dont have a shorter lifespan by definition. They can absolutely outlive a computer if they are handled with care.

For that reason making companies open (jailbreak) their devices or more accurately their bootloaders is not only a nice idea but the single most important step towards truly owning our devices.

Also, there will never be „one“ os. Thats not how FOSS works. There will always be 100 different opinions and as many will try to make their own thing. Its important to lose the current prevalent view of needing „one“ for everything. Thats not how democracy works either which ultimately is the goal of this community.

Edit: for completions sake we would later make hardware vendors to open source their drivers as well. This will be much harder than opening the OS and therefore cant be pushed for together with the latter. Otherwise we will not get either. Push for one, then push for the other.

[–] dipak@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

By "general purpose OS" I meant "an OS or OSes which are capable to provide features so that the phone can reasonably used as a daily driver". Similar to bare-bone AOSP. I didn't stress on a single OS. Sorry, that was not clarified in my response.

Regarding the other parts, the issue is not about the jailbreak or unlock of bootloader - it is already being done. And it is getting increasingly easy for those phones which stop getting updates. I was stressing the fact that even after such unlock, the harder part is to avail/install a workable OS on such a phone, and even harder is to develop such. A lot of reverse engineering needed in such efforts.

Yeah, if we can get the device unlocked, get the full hardware specifications with datasheets and firmware code, and source code of the drivers then we might have a shot.

Sorry, I was not on the same ideological page as you on Anti-Corporate Movement. I'm new here, and wasn't fully aware of the goal of community. So, my reply was along the lines of technical issues of the approach.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 2 points 7 months ago

Thank you for clarifying and please dont worry. It was a clear misunderstanding on both ends. I respect that you are being open about it.

Have a nice day! :)