These are phones literally from a decade ago. Huawei H1611, Xiaomi Mi 5, and ZTE Z832 Sonata 3 were all released in 2016. This is not a serious argument.
The idea that you want to avoid devices from known bad actors shouldn’t be controversial in any way. Devices developed using an independent tech stack will always be inherently safer.
I’m guessing a big part of it is also having energy independence, and if the input energy comes from renewables or nuclear then it might actually end up being carbon neutral.
yeah that’s a good question, seems like a likely explanation that they expand demand to grow and want to keep up with it
China is shifting to a “non-waste” system, aiming for holistic lifecycle management of plastics. New national targets for 2030 include raising recycled plastic production to 19.5 million tons and increasing the use of recycled materials in cars, electronics, and packaging. https://www.plasticsnews.com/public-policy/sp-china-action-plan-recycled-plastics-2030/
There’s also a new green consumption drive http://www.china.org.cn/2026-01/07/content_118266914.shtml
and a major push to shift to high value, closed loop recycling (you’d need to run the link through a translator) https://www.mj.org.cn/mjfc/mtjj/202603/t20260326_305587.htm
Another interesting development is an effort to achieve sustainable reuse polyethylene terephthalate, a plastic in bottles, packaging, and textiles https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/break-down-plastic-waste-recycling-chemical-process-china/
and to transform toxic industrial waste gas into hydrogen fuel https://en.people.cn/n3/2026/0109/c90000-20412332.html
Yeah, it’s gonna be bad, nobody will want to quarantine either I imagine. Just have to hope the vaccines will be good enough at this point.
The point here is that we already lived in a world where you can’t just take things on faith. The AI changes fuck all about that.
The fact that we talk about jobs being automated as a negative shows just how messed up our economic system is. The whole point of a society should be to pool effort together to reduce individual labour needed for survival. Instead, under capitalism, we’re all expected to toil as much as possible so that 0.1% of the population lives in opulence beyond any reason.
I mean if you base your choice of device around what doesn’t have Israeli connections first that means you’re not getting a phone built on the US/Israeli supply chain, and these do tend to be more secure. There’s a reason Huawei is banned in the US, and the US has been lobbying all the vassals to stop using Huawei gear. It’s not because they’re afraid of Chinese surveillance, but rather because Huawei doesn’t have American backdoors.
they really need to expand the range of phones they support, would be nice if they made it run on some Chinese brands
Well, this one is human transmissible, and it may be fairly easily transmissible given that several people got sick on the same cruise. So now we’re waiting to find out if people who came back to Canada are carriers or not. Also, apparently they’re self isolating for 30 days while it can take up to 8 weeks to develop. 🤷
I don’t really see a problem with steering people away from iphones, but older pixels with graphineos are probably a safe enough device to own right now.
Viruses mutate, in case you weren’t aware, if a strain starts transmitting easily between humans then we’ll have another major pandemic.
And by everything they’re doing today you mean raising the standard of living for their people at an unprecedented rate?
It’s not even between Russia and USA, the only people who see Russia as a bigger threat are Europeans. Even Americans now realize they’re the baddies.
Given that we haven’t even hit peak oil shortages, that’s pretty much certain.
But we’re talking about today, not the past. Last I looked, Huawei has no business with Israel right now. China also explicitly told companies to not use US and Israeli tech https://www.reuters.com/world/china/beijing-tells-chinese-firms-stop-using-us-israeli-cybersecurity-software-sources-2026-01-14/
I think it’s absolutely the point to use tech stacks outside US and Israeli control because these are bad actors, and any technology associated with them cannot be trusted.
There are plenty of them, Huawei, Xiaomi, SMIC just to name a few.
Ah yes, you must be the national socialist type of leftist.
I’m using Firefox on GrapheneOS and recaptcha still works normally for me.