In hindsight, I should’ve added a few more…
Repairability/sustainability: Easy to repair, sustainably produced.
Ethics: Anti-Big Tech (no Apple, no Samsung etc.), good workers’ rights and supply chain. Preferably European.
Privacy: Speaks for itself. Privacy or anonymity, measures that foster it rather than feed data to others.
I feel like Fairphone would hit the Repairability and likely also Ethics (since it’s a certified B corporation), but for Privacy, it’d be a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS… but it’s Google, and given the CLOUD Act…
Maybe I could add accessibility there too, interface customisation (I like the iOS interface ways, but still, it’s Apple), but that’s a separate category.
Yes, but will you? In reality it takes trust for most. Personally, I don’t think I could tell a sophisticated back door [pervy emoji] from a hello world! script.
[me looking at the source code] Interesting… they used words here and a few numbers too. 🔍🤔
I won’t, but the code being open makes it easy for third parties to inspect. So I suppose I’d be trusting that other people who are savvier and more paranoid than me have taken a look and made sure it’s safe.
Yeah, I mean I feel pretty confident trusting stuff like Graphene that’s 1) open source, 2) popular 3) among techy people that 4) are obsessed about privacy and security