Well, personally I actually don’t have a lot of material things I possess. I prefer a nomadic/minimalistic life style right now. But, I recently began noticing how much I enjoy owning the things that I have. Like my data or my phone.
The thoughts about this were planted in when I got myself a personal server. Where, with Dokploy, I self-hosted multiple open source services. Alternatives to Obsidian live and sync, Google Analytics, health dashboards and more. I enjoyed how easy it was and that I didn’t have to pay a subscription and have not own my data. I don’t want to be locked in. This is a bit of effort, but for simple things like this I’m ready to go for it. Thinking about money, about how much subscriptions cost, made me realize how expensive they are.
These thoughts were reinforced when read about the plans of Android developer verification. Which tries to enforce that all the apps installed must be made by developers which are verified. However, I love to install modded software, and modify stuff myself. And this will just not allow this anymore?
But but but I am the one who owns my phone? I bought it. And I can decide what I want to install and what not. I have modded apks I love. Will they be gone? It feels like the Android verification thing is primarily to get rid of modded apps which go around payment systems and ads, and secondary to comply to the government requests.