Alternative OSes surely do have better privacy than Android, but that’s probably not sufficient. On Smartphones, there runs not a single CPU like on a laptop, but more like 5 computers and only one of them is controlled by the OS. For example, there is a baseband processor and a radio modem. And the SIM card is a computer. And part of these can be controlled remotely (have you ever wondered how your phone automatically re-programs it parameters when you change providers?).

And then there are gaps in authentication in the radio prozocol: Your phone / SIM card authenticates against a radio tower so that the right phone user pays the bill. But the phone has no way to detect a rogue mobile tower…

It seems to be just accepted that everyone is going to jump to another company every couple years (usually due to companies not giving adequate raises).

Well. I did the last jump because the quality was so bad.

LOL. There are African countries like Ethopia that are banning new petrol cars. And more countries should do it, so that VW might get a grasp on reality.

By the way, a great deal of Germany’s exportd of luxery cars goed to really poor countries. I worked back in 1995 in a Mercedes Benz assembly line. The destination was on a sheet in the side window. I was stunned how many expensive Mercedes cars were exported to countries like Pakistan.

What kind of clueless person wrote this. Whoever wrote this clearly has no idea how much 800W is in practice.

Average available power < installed power

We need more than desperate kids and teenagers protesting, we need an 21th century global résistance. Like described in “Ministry for the Future”.