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0 pointsjacquesm5y ago0 comments

HN is substantially larger than 4000 people, besides, telling people to design and fab their own chips is disingenuous.

The right to privacy is not a 'first world problem', it is a problem.

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I agree that privacy is a problem - and yes it is a first world problem.

The specific privacy problem espoused by this post is not just a first world problem, it's an HN problem. I am being disingenuous - this request is pure insanity and I absolutely promise you that this "computer you fully own" will have such a very small market that it doesn't have a chance of breaking even.

thefz5y ago

> I agree that privacy is a problem - and yes it is a first world problem.

Where a right for privacy really matters is not in the part of the world where your google searches are used to pick an etsy ad, but where typing the wrong thing against the wrong person could land you in jail, or at the morgue.

jacquesmOP5y ago

You fail the principle of charity test on several levels.

hellisothers5y ago

Agreed, I care about privacy but this is fetishizing privacy, is pathological.

kmonsen5y ago

It’s only a problem because people in general are not willing to pay for it.

You and the OP have the same problem you want a solution but are not willing to pay the price. And you think that what you want is what most people want, but from what the market tells us they are pretty happy with what is being offered right now.

jacquesmOP5y ago

> You and the OP have the same problem you want a solution but are not willing to pay the price.

I don't think you can make statements about me with such a definitive tone without first asking some questions.

Daho0n5y ago

So let's say I'm willing to pay double or triple rate or more if needed, then show me a flagship phone with the same capabilities as a normal Android flagship phone but without the loss of privacy and ownership. You can't and you never have been able to. No completely free phone on par with flagships have ever been released.

fsflover5y ago

Not exactly same capabilities as Android phones yet, but getting there fast with software updates: https://puri.sm/products/librem-5.

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EvanAnderson5y ago

HN may be larger than 4000 people, but it feels like a disturbingly large portion of the HN community seems to be in favor of anti-owner and anti-privacy policies. Forced obsolescence, razor/blades business models, selling user "behavior" data, and out-right spying on individual communications all seem to be big moneymakers, and some significant portion of HN's audience is more about "IPO and get rich" than "hacking".

jacquesmOP5y ago

HN is large enough that it has many factions, the one you describe definitely exists, as does the 'bro' faction, the 'get rich quick' faction, the racists and the idiots. That doesn't mean that any of these factions are dominant, and besides that HN has many more lurkers than posters and I suspect that the division is not identical between those groups on either side of the lurker/contributor divide.

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