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1. MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 10:34:30 CET MMN-o ✅⃠

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   • Aral Balkan
   @aral What's your stance on reused hardware etc? I.e. when and where - if ever - do the benefits outweight the costs on Android vs. Apple?
   
   I.e. repurposing Android phones by installing Google-free FLOSS vs. being unable to reuse Apple stuff at all, causing environmental hazards?
   
   Do we support surveillance capitalism with environmentalism, or should we support Apple-like capitalism by wasting resources?
   
   I'm asking in a constructive manner so please interpret it like that .)
   • Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 11:03:40 CET Aral Balkan

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     @mmn Sure, it’s a good short-term strategy. Where it would become problematic is if the organisations doing it started seeing it as the end goal instead of as a bridge to their own free/open hardware and thus their survival was linked to the survival of surveillance capitalists.

   • MMN-o ✅⃠ (mmn@social.umeahackerspace.se)'s status on Sunday, 17-Feb-2019 20:12:48 CET MMN-o ✅⃠

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     • Aral Balkan
     @aral Aye, but the risks of being 100% unable to run !FS on the platform (i.e. Apple) must surely be a worse strategic approach?
     
     Of course I mean repurposing used hardware and not purchasing new Google-financing dung.