Democratisation of powerful tools won’t work because it’s easier to use for destruction than for the opposite. Every psychopath designing superbugs and inventing future weapons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86k8N4YsA7c

More like; it’s cheap when you have no tolerance and no daily habit. You start paying if you let your consumption grow 50-fold.

There are many custom ROMs based on AOSP: GrapheneOS (for security against hacking and confiscation), LineageOS and its descendants /e/OS, iodéOS, and crDroid, etc. CalyxOS is not doing well right now, but it should be back in a few months.

Make sure you can relock the bootloader after installing to protect against attacks through the USB connector.

Murena ships /e/OS preinstalled on the European Fairphone and Shiftphone. Iodé similarly.

Then there’s Volla phone which can have Linux (Ubuntu Touch) and and VollaOS (AOSP-based) on the same phone. There are other Linux phones, but nobody recommends them for normal consumers.

Stop exaggerating. The OpenAI speech-to-text service is a paid extra you don’t accidentally switch on, and telemetry is off by default and hidden in the developer options menu.

(But yeah, OpenAI was a disgusting choice. The default should have been local, even if it’s worse.)

Not CalyxOS right now.
https://calyxos.org/news/2025/08/01/a-letter-to-our-community/

I went with /e/OS, and it works well, even bank apps.

Banks let you sort funds available through them by SFDR rating. 9 is the highest so far.

Hastily skimmed search results:

The SFDR’s Articles 8 and 9: The Funds Behind the Labels (2021)
https://www.msci.com/documents/10199/a5471d75-de16-c7ab-a6e0-d12c81fcb1a1

EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure (SFDR) taking a new direction? What to expect for the financial services’ industry main disclosure regime in 2025 and beyond
https://www.hsfkramer.com/notes/esg/2024-posts/eu-sfdr-taking-a-new-direction-what-to-expect

SFDR Article 8 and Article 9 Funds: Q1 2025 in Review
https://marketing.morningstar.com/content/cs-assets/v3/assets/blt9415ea4cc4157833/bltf949c61f4b925d30/680fef290e3d114b367b32b3/SFDR_Article_8_and_Article_9_Funds_Q1_2025.pdf

You want manual plugging and unplugging, same as always? I don’t, and all those “we” the article refers to lost my respect as future visionaries. Your imagination is dead.