Dell’s CES 2026 chat was the most pleasingly un-AI briefing I’ve had in maybe 5 years
Dude! You’re getting a
AI bloated monstrositydell!*–*Terms subject to change. Consumer has no rights. You own nothing. Operating system may insert AI against your will. Fuck you.
This is what computers feel like these days. Remember when you just BOUGHT the hardware, AND the software? So there was a reasonable expectation that the products were to do what we wanted them to do.
Now, somehow WE are the products. We own nothing. And it gets more restrictive every generation.
Even Android is becoming more closed source. And it will soon be harder to avoid AI. Android is still a google product remember. And you KNOW google wants us all using AI.
This was a big factor for me using linux for the past year, despite not knowing what I’m doing. Don’t know what I’ll do about cell phone though.
Linux Phones and Linux Phone OS do exist, but they’re quite far behind on things, best for extending life of older ones than as your everyday
You can’t generally install Linux onto most (any?) existing phones that were not specifically made for it like the Pinephone, so I don’t know that it is helpful for extending the life of many devices.
Postmarket OS is explicitly for that
Postmarket OS
I am not aware of any phones that don’t already support running Linux (Pinephone, Librem, and maybe one or two others) that can use Postmarket OS. I’d be both impressed and shocked if that has materially changed. Also, I have actually tried out Postmarket OS and it was not ready for use as a daily driver. That doesn’t mean people shouldn’t give it a try though, as it won’t ever get there if technically minded people don’t use it and feed helpful feedback.
Jolla ?
I literally just switched to Mint over the holidays. Any advice?
Have fun and keep exploring, that’s my advice :)
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