No thanks. Less corporate Android. More freedom<p>- Recently? Play Store android phones started allowing apps to run ads with your typical virus style &quot;Hey I see you CPU is &quot;Lagging&quot; click to fix Pop-downs.<p>- My new Samsung phone was an expensive pocket watch &#x2F; alarm clock. Now it wants me to be a puppet.
Like everyone else I thought paying lots of money for something meant it had positive value.<p>- I get it, I fell for it. Jokes on me - I&#x27;m an idiot - something to do with my identity and consumerism.<p>- I see people online do silly things like port Windows onto their Chromebook (Shed tear). &quot;Look at all these  new features!&quot; they proclaim in joy. They don&#x27;t seem to realize they were allowed that freedom through free software &#x2F; hardware. It&#x27;s always something. Video games, convenience, simplicity.<p>- I&#x27;m not ignorant of why these things appear appealing - I wasted much of my life over what I thought was time saving.<p>- It&#x27;s like getting granted political asylum and running into the first jail just to be extra sure you&#x27;re safe.<p>TL:DR<p>I tried getting a newer laptop to run Windows a year or so ago believing that like my desktop I could choose to uninstall the Windows and replace it. It was a 64 bit processor running 32 bit windows. 32 bit bootloader. Christ. Then reinstalling Windows to sell it. Oh now the mouse and keyboard doesn&#x27;t work because the drivers were packaged separately and the repair partition (10gb of the 32gb emmc) is only accessible by a repair specialist.<p>So when these corps come along with &quot;look at what we&#x27;ve &quot;philanthropically&quot; contributed to your cheap raspberry pi I&#x27;m gonna go ahead and steer towards a future without all the B.S.<p>I&#x27;d love to hear more about how these corps are symbiotic for a better technical future (partial sarcasm).