Can we please stop ignoring the elephant in the room? We are paid too little to afford “luxuries” like privacy and products that fit our wallets are only possible thanks to the even greater exploitation of workers in other countries. And while for us the aspiration is digital sovereignty, theirs is to have a full stomach.
So if one wants a more powerful FOSS phone like the Librem 5 at a lower price he must instead pretend a higher salary for himself and support a fairer production like Fairphone tried to do.
Please don’t comment with the usual FOSS fanboy nonsense I saw under my posts on Planet KDE that sounded like “FOSS is just for fun, to make friends and (virtually) party, I don’t want to see politics in my feed” because privacy is political, digital sovereignity is political, FOSS is political, prices and salaries are political, production is political, every possible interaction between individuals implies negotiation (of goods, moral values, …) and so it is political, by definition.
Your post title and comment lead me to believe the article would have a different slant, I was surprised (and agree wholeheartedly). To piggyback off of your mention of price I don’t mind paying for the Librem 5… once I can reliably get one.
Much as there’s a wide range of Android price points I see Pine and Purism easily being viable options at the same time without necessarily requiring a price drop - as the software matures we could/should see more hardware options available, I’m excited for the community around the idea of such a device to grow even further than it already has.
BTW the article is not by me.
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No, I said “as Fairphone tried to do”. They are the only ones with this purpose, there is still some criticism but one could argue it’s not their fault.
Here I’m attacking those who pretend privacy-first products at lower prices when obviously they should instead pretend higher salaries because those are set so that the average worker can buy just what big corporations produce while privacy becomes a privilege.