That part I read as an exaggeration as a figure of speech. The most interesting part to me is about people becoming the oppressors themselves due to this being their only learned model of human interaction.
This one requirement I believe to be already met. Mobile kde, for one, is pretty nice. I believe the bottleneck of linux phones are really in the hardware
I found myself using my phone less and less too, and to be honest, I'm even feeling healthier mentally. Portable devices were supposed to improve our life, not make it worse. Big tech did something really terrible to phones :(
But almost always, during the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving
for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors, or “sub-oppressors.” The very structure
of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential
situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be
oppressors. This is their model of humanity
A quote from Paulo Freire, in the pedagogy of the oppressed
Fun fact; Here in Brazil, the cheaper tv models being sold are 720p, and a lot of people buy them and don't even know what video resolution is, neither they feel like missing something lol
My advice is to always go in short steps, proving the ground and getting to know the alternatives. I'd recommend installing f-droid and having fun testing all the free apps you can, removing google stuff one by one, then, after feeling comfortable, trying a custom rom, and when you eventually need a new phone, looking for a model more friendly to degoogling.
And not only an easy thing to do, but something that bothers the big tech a lot! If it didn't bother, they wouldn't care to invest so much in making it harder for us, and if it bothers them, it means we're on the right track.
We see those jokes around, but I have seen a guy in real life that keeps SEVERAL tabs open and uses it as some sort of storage. He does that and then goes into every tech conversation to say that 16gb is "absolutely trash" nowadays, and that we need like at least 64gb. ¯(ツ)_/¯
He also does everything online while logged in on google and on every online service possible. Looking at his browser giver me some unexplainable agony.
That part I read as an exaggeration as a figure of speech. The most interesting part to me is about people becoming the oppressors themselves due to this being their only learned model of human interaction.