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this post was submitted on 14 Oct 2025
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SoCs used in phones are heavily tivoised. You can't just run any OS you want on them. This is also slowly but steadily coming to PCs with UEFI and those very important "security" chips and "technologies".
The situation will improve not earlier than when we are able to print chips at home, as we can now with small plastic parts.
Which is not going to happen anytime soon IMO. Even if we were able to print our own chips at home, they would be just DIY devices only to be used by geeks, meaning no mainstream apps/programs would work and it would be just like Linux desktop days back in 2000s (some still don't work even today).
It's getting more and more into a dystopic future where freedoms are willingly given up by people under the excuse of "advancing" or "getting the best technology we can ever get right now". Meanwhile companies make more billions and getting more power by stealing more and more data from their user base. So I'm not as optimistic as you.