@LorenzoVujade You could sell the device for more than the cost of replacing the screen and speaker after doing it so it's probably worth it.

@Antti The UI and application layer which is largely closed source is in fact a huge portion of what they've made and is not the only part of SailfishOS which is closed source.

@Antti No, not many companies based in Europe directly partnered with the Russia government starting after they invaded Ukraine. That's not business as usual, that's directly working with authoritarians. No amount of your lies about when the partnership and ownership ended or the extent of it is going to successfully cover it up. Jolla is run by people not aligned with individual rights and certainly not aligned with the well being of the EU. Their marketing is as hollow as their values.

@Antti They didn't choose the licensing for the portions of SailfishOS not developed by them. They didn't make the Linux kernel or choose the GPLv2 license it uses. For the majority of what they've developed themselves rather than taken from others, the code is closed source. The project itself is largely closed source. you're trying to present it as if code they took from elsewhere should be credited to them while meanwhile the portions they actually made which is mainly the UI are closed.

@Antti Jolla began closely partnering with Russia in 2015, a year after their invasion of Crimea. They were fully aware they were partnering with an authoritarian regime engaging in assassinations, invasions and ethnic cleansing. Jolla demonstrated their values with this partnership and they're absolutely not people who believe in personal freedoms, privacy or who have any backbone to stand up to authoritarianism. They chose that partnership and chose to be largely owned by Russia.

@helloclippy @jfr_1980 @keepandroidopen It's not surprising to see someone with an online identity based around content from a prominent Kiwi Farmer is making disingenous attacks on our project and team. We're going to continue countering the dishonest claims about us with factual information. You're trying and failing to misdirect away from it.

From your bio:

> I'm part of the LGBTQ+ community

Meanwhile, you support Kiwi Farmers and their attacks on us:

https://kiwifarms.st/members/larossmann.132201/

@jfr_1980 @lineageos @keepandroidopen Are you really so confident that France, Germany and other European countries aren't going to elect authoritarians? If you move to an OS and services largely marketed and based around the fact that they're French, you can't expect them to protect you from a future French government violating human rights even more than the current government. Governments are largely backing the whole digital sovereignty push because they want access and control themselves.

@jfr_1980 @lineageos @keepandroidopen The EU passed Chat Control in a somewhat watered down form but it still passed. It's not going to be the end of it. We wouldn't feel very comfortable if we were based in the EU. We had to leave France and French providers entirely to protect our users because they've gone after organizations for providing secure devices before and started threatening to do the same to us due to GrapheneOS protecting devices from commercial exploit tools.

@jfr_1980 @lineageos @keepandroidopen Yet all of those are largely made with US tech. You're going to need to avoid the Snapdragon, the Linux kernel and a massive amount of other tech if you want to avoid technology primarily made and controlled within the US. A company being geographically located within the US doesn't mean the components and software they're using aren't largely US tech.

Europe is leading the charge on age verification, cracking down on end-to-end encryption, etc. not the US.