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[–] 8925570? 0 points 4 points (+4|-0) ago 

Check out the fairphone 2
https://shop.fairphone.com/en/

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[–] Super_Cooper 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Modular technology is awesome. Make it happen dude. You can do it. You can be the next Steve Jobs.

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[–] Y8goKTH959VCLKty8xIz 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

if annon gets to be autistic then goats can be schizo. Embrace it. It's 2017 after all

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[–] Water 0 points 8 points (+8|-0) ago 

ctrl+f baseband

You are not talking about the most important part of the phone. The part the phone with proprietary software from the FCC and on Qualcomm chips this is integrated with the CPU. Librem hopes to crowd fund an Intel based phone where the baseband can be toggled off. Hopefully this can go through and be successful. The OS on the phone is irrelevant as long as the baseband is active, even if that OS is FOSS.

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[–] cthulian_axioms 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

If the FCC is a Governmental entity, and the Government cannot hold copyright, how can the code that makes the baseband work be anything other than open-source?

Is it kept secret because of "muh terrorism" fears?

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[–] Water 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I am not a legal expert nor really a phone expert, just an OSS enthusiast shit posting online about the government/companies tracking me. I do not believe code without source code released is copyright but I do not really know what legally is copyrighted code. Also I think I may have misspoke, I think the chip manufacturer gets their code approved by the FCC. It is probably the companies arguing their work is contained. I would at least like phones where it it could be isolated from the chip so that it could be disabled or work more like a firmware than a second CPU. I found this link before if you would like to learn more.

http://osmocom.org/projects/baseband/wiki/LegalAspects#Usingmodifiedphonesoncarriernetworks

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[–] Donbuster 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

its to keep phone makers from intentionally making their phones impossible to migrate, to enforce spectrum limitations (gotta make sure I don't transmit at crazy high power on military reserved bands) and other stuff of the sort

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[–] tendie 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

i demand wifi for my toaster!

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[–] Wowbagger 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Check out the Dragonbox Pyra.

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[–] Donbuster 0 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago 

Well, for phones, my advice? Keep a dumbphone, take the battery out when not using it. For the laptop, its possible to configure enterprise machines where they don't even COME with a camera or mic. (I know either the dell precision 5520 or 3520 developer editions come with those options if you configure them). I've never seen a desktop with a built in mic in the tower.

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[–] Thissandwich 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

I think I would like to transfer the +1/+1 counters from my old phone to my new one.

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