Re: Why use an email client AND sendmail/popa3d
On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:13:03 -0500
Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:03:21 +0000
> Joe <joe@jretrading.com> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > proper email client or webmail. I have to admit I use a netbook
> > while away from home, as I have both "smart"phone and tablet, but
> > they are extremely limited toys and they are owned by Google. If I
> > need a mobile computer, then I want a real computer, and one where
> > I have root access.
>
> A smartphone running something like LineageOS is not really owned by
> Google (although there are still the very real problems of binary
> blobs and the baseband black box stuff). If you get one with an
> unlocked bootloader, you can have root as well. They're certainly not
> quite the same thing as a "real" computer, admittedly.
>
I'm not really comfortable about downloading a random rooting tool from
the Net, and I have the impression, rightly or wrongly, that writers of
software for phones and tablets take the same kind of proprietorial
view of other peoples' devices as writers of Windows software.
That's my main objection to using Windows: not so much the OS itself as
the tendency for writers of software to believe that they own *my*
computer, and can do what they like with it and with my data.
--
Joe
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