Imagine you could install any software on any device. The devices you own that don't receive updates anymore, or where you found out that the software is full of ads/tracking. You could replace it, maybe with a Linux distro like postmarketOS running mainline. These devices wouldn't need to be electronic waste. We signed @fsfe's #openletter to the EU to make this happen.
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. We enable people to use, understand, adapt, and share software.
The FSFE is running a campaign encouraging people to upcycle old Android devices with free code software. Totally agree with this in principle, but beyond installing F-Droid and using apps installed from there as much as possible, I've found it remarkably hard to do in practice.
Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. We enable people to use, understand, adapt, and share software.
Today the FSFE publishes an #OpenLetter, co-signed by 38 European organisations and companies to ask #European legislators for the universal right to install any software on any device, including full access to hardware: https://fsfe.org/news/2022/news-20220427-01.html
The FSFE publishes an open letter, co-signed by 38 organisations and companies, to ask EU legislators for the right to install any software on any device, ...
Phosh is an integral part of many GNU/Linux mobile operating systems. Their contributors meet-up at #FOSDEM today at 16:00. GNU/Linux systems are important part of #UpcyclingAndroid.
