he try to agree

I was so confused by that, it was a really awkward exchange

Very disrespectful, Stallman sounds very unused to the concept of "talking" or "interview"

@@Rennacius Stallman is probably neurodivergent, give him a break

@@AbandonedVoid apparently he rejects any theory that he has any neurodisorder

Yes, but listen on what? Lol, I partly jest, but seriously? Would take a paradigm shift on a societal level

Government listened him very well

Why? Do you think the interview was meant to be secret?

@@johnnyblue4799 IKR, people are so dumb man

@@johnnyblue4799 not a secret, but he always has several petitions whenever he's going to give a speech or attend an interview, one of them is use of mobile phones

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@@2vndr well here he is likely recording or similar on the phone, I mean it's in his face. I don't think Stallman is the type of dude who would just accept that if he wasn't okay with it. I mean you even see it here when he is getting "interrupted".

Librem phones tried to put together a platform (and they did), but hey, it turns out it's very hard to make cheap and effective devices compared to the modern stuff.

Check about PinePhone

Oh no, I wouldn't want to lose any of these components

Destroy the mic, use headset.

That might be a job for Framework.

And that leads totaliry system.

Still the firmware and drivers are proprietary

Soi energy.

@Ch Pe this didn’t age well. GAB here we come

@Ch Pe Odyssey (a front end for LBRY) is exploding in popularity.

They're still tracked by the phone companies & towers (legitimate and faked), and all calls can be monitored. Just without the secret spyware - so maybe a half win

@@WiseGuy508 also unfortunate

They still hook up to cell towers and go through mobile data providers, so they're still tracking your location and listening to your conversations. They are marginally better, but they really don't address most of the core issues. You would need a mobile device that uses VoIP over the internet, which would require the use of public wireless access points and carry its own risks, and it would prevent you from sending or receiving text conversations.

Almost all smartphones are able to execute an emergency call even without a sim card. Therefore you can believe that your smartphone will still connect to radio towers. This leads to the conclusion that removing the sim card does not prevent tracking of smartphones.

You can. The man answers all of his emails himself, and he responds quickly.

Yes it replies but obviously he has to answer hundreds of emails every day so please contact him only if you cannot find the answer in one of his numerous talks.

maybe a t400

@@diegomillan2806 yeah you're probably right. Looks like a 14 inch laptop. T400 with 9cell maybe

I think he uses a T60. It’s one of the few laptops that can be Librebooted

@@willardorwud a lot of them can now, but those models you guys mentioned are the only ones that can be truly, truly 'free' like that

When I get home, I store my work phone into a sealed aluminium box. I pull it only when I need. The reason of a phone is to reach you when you are available instead make you available 24/7, then you get contacts mad just because you're not. That's insane.

That's the point. They made them pretty much mandatory. In the same way you also necessarily need a bank account.

If you have "NO CHOICE" for "WORK REASONS" you're not a fucking worker. You're a slave. lmfao. Get used to it.

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yeah the whole point is - he is the idealist that we need as a contrast and an example - doesn't mean all of us are able to do everything he does, but it means that maybe someone will develop technology that allows it or addresses the issues he has

If the location is tracked my the phone company, you're still stuck. Lineage - extremely small market share, as other OSs not using Google's services gives a ton of inconveniences to the average user, so the market share will not change

What phone do you own?

SLASH LINOOOOOOOKZ

Well that is with passports and your personal details, they don't ask anything for your real time location at least

The only thing we can really do, inside this society, is to be aware and spread our awareness. If enough people wake up from their slumber, our collective uncounscious will be enough to change things. This is a long process and could require generations, a collective effort. Or it can simply explode in a bloodbath. Humans will always live the conflict of what's right for us as people and what's good for us as individuals, this is one of our biggest struggles.

He taps a stranger on the shoulder and asks if they can make a quick call for him.

@@miguelrmusic but what if all humans follow his advice

@@shekhawat5917 Then payphones would come back

He asks people to boycott Zoom etc and call in. And he wants us to boycott mobile phones. What are we supposed to use?!

@@oliverford5367 Good point!

No. The reason is completely else. It started with Apple, everyone is following that shit company. They didn't have a removable battery. Others followed. They removed the headphone jack, Everyone followed. They added an ugly notch, everyone followed. They removed the charging brick from their packaging, everyone followed.... Idk if you noticed but it all leads to fucking apple. and now those companies are following apple as well by locking down the device, like taking all your control on what you can do to it, away like it isn't even yours when you bought it.

nah that's not the reason, the reason is that it's cheaper to make, more compact, and that the manufacturer can have monopoly on repair, ofc what you're saying can still happen, but it's not the main reason behind it

Apple was clearly about their coming phones unable to ever shutdown, the most part of the iPhone will shutdown but partly it keeps emitting beacons, it's for our own security they explained like tracking your stolen iPhone.

No, it's to make sure you buy a new one instead of repairing

Is big

That's exactly why softwares are made for, to automate things, u don't have to listen to every single conversation, a modular software (AI in the near future) will do so and can tell whether someone is talking about killing, bombarding, politiques, ...I'll let the rest to ur imagination.

It already exist and has for a long time. They can use software to search for keywords.

LOL

Based on a true story. No, that cannot be right. Based-in-fact. That does not sound right either. Misusing a word. Yes, that must be it.

​@@williamjohnson3229 words can earn new meanings over time. stop crying if you can't handle the evolution of language.

Yes

I don't think your home phone listens to you when you're not in a conversation (although it's possible). Also your location and proximity with other people can't be tracked through your home phone.

Not necessarily "don't use it" so much as "be aware that everything you do with it is public, so try to use more private alternatives as much as possible." Not using it is the ideal, and that is achievable in the modern era.

Get real

Stalin sucked though. You realize you can say socialism is good and stalin was bad with contradiction right?

@@Taylor_5724 No they didn’t? Why exactly is Stalin so bad?

Well milions starved to death because of him or if he thought you were a threat to him you were sent to the gulag or executed on the spot and lives of your family members were ruined and you know, the usual stuff. But other than that really great guy 👍👍

@@simonmravec2807 no

@Archusrtm lol

Kinda true tho, unless you have a phone with hardware kill switches that let you disable something in your phone on a hardware level.

also gnu/linux phones (which are kinda still in development) have more privacy.

government is also not safe from terrorists.

Nah, Stallman is 100% right

Until it becomes illegal to be contrary or a dissident.

Thanks officer!

Algorithms will remove the need for resources. Everyone will be monitored closely soon.

Shoo commie. You don't get to write off the mass murder and abortion of human liberty caused by the mercantile failure and brutality of the USSR. If you actually cared about independence, liberty, and privacy, you would actually stand against the evils caused by ANY entity that has power over the individual - Government or Corporation.

"The only mistake in his politics is the bias against more government" Uhhh lol

@@collinc757 he criticizes corporations in favor of government regulation, so yeah, he knows there's a need for true popular power over corporations and that can only be achieved through worker organizations

@@MEWOVER9000 such mass murders are pure bogus made up as a way to deter the masses from the only true alternative to the injustices and devastation of capitalism. The population of the Soviet Union went from 137 million to 200 million from 1920 to 210 million in 1959. So no one missing. The Soviet Union did not fail or collapse, it was ilegally dissolved against the will of its population manifested in two refrendums, Russia has now one of the highest suicide rates in the world, people look back and miss those good times when everybody had a job, healthcare, food and shelter, nothing for free all provided by their job. Life in all socialist republics was better before, Romania, Yugoslavia, are all the backwater of Europe now with high unemployment and terrible life conditions. Any shortages in the 80s were due to privatization by traitor Gorbachev, effectively worsening life conditions for the masses, so literally the more capitalist the USSR became, the worse life was. You're drawing a false equivalence between a corporation, whose sole purpose is the greed for profit compared to a government composed mostly of workers and where the economy is not left to a gamble but planned by society in the best interest of society.

@@rashidnexkoyotl7524 What is your explanation for all the historians and scholars who have documented something on the order of 20 million killed by Stalin's regime? Is it your position that all these people are in on some kind of conspiracy to slander socialism? You also have the example of China whose economy collapsed under a pure socialist model, and switched to a "capitalism with socialist characteristics" model which has allowed them to thrive, and brought them back from the brink.

I partly agree and also see how this guy might be difficult to talk to lol. But, I don't think saving lives is a justification for reducing freedoms and privacy, simply because the people aren't being given the real choice. The system we built favors surveillance and data collection, but another just as functional system could work without those problems.