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Don't confuse Jolla https://jolla.com/ with Volla https://volla.online/en/index.php

Both are European companys with a great privacy drive.


Nobody has confused Jolla with Volla, mostly because nobody has ever heard of Volla.

You didn't need to create a new account just to say something that is not true ;)

You'd say that most people don't know about Linux phones, but for those who know, Volla running Ubuntu is pretty well known, at least in Europe.


I actually confused them many times, when I started researching Android alternatives and Linux phones. Now I learnt :)

That website is asking for consent for allegedly anonymous statistics ("With your consent, we use cookies for anonymized statistics"). One doesn't need to ask for consent when you're not collecting personal data...

The only possible button is agree, but to read what you're agreeing to, you need to click agree first because this overlay also spawns on the privacy policy page that's linked from the cookie wall

The privacy information is also only available in German

10/10 privacy drive


And to my eternal puzzlement here's two companies that are made for one another and so far they've never worked together on a project. SMH...

Exactly. It'd be great a genuine collective European effort to make a Linux phone.

Another crucial point is to push for open standards for those apps that only work on Android or iOS.


we need a .olla TLD

On the other hand Spain is using Huawei servers for almost all of their sensitive data. I wonder how the UE, and NATO, will react to that, because they're using Huawei for Social Security data, wiretapping data (SITEL), or even Intelligence Services data.

https://therecord.media/spain-awards-contracts-huawei-intell...


And Spain will have 6G and all the niceties of telecom technology, while Germany will be stuck forever on 5G.


What makes you believe Huawei is the only company that will ever be able to build 6G hardware for the entire remaining lifetime of the universe?


Huawei and other Chinese companies laid huge patent minefields around pretty much every modern high-speed radio technology.

If you ever worked in 5G/6G/Wifi/etc. standardization you will quickly see one thing: they know their job.

So even if you rip out all Chinese hardware - you will still have to pay money to them if you replace it with local stuff from Nokia/Ericson/etc.


Scale. Huawei has 1.4 billion customers just in China. They have double this around the world. The US and European markets have become small for the scale of next generations telecom.


I get why you do so, but the European Union is always shortened to EU, not UE.

It would be as if I wrote a sentence, "The EWG was created by the treaty of Rome in 1957".

What is EWG? Oh yes its the German abbreviation for the EEC. But we're writing in English?


“I think you meant EU instead of UE" sounds much less passive-aggressive.


Related reading 'AA Call Boxes - A Guide' https://www.britishtelephones.com/kioskinfo/aacallboxinfo.ht...


Press release https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/international-lawye...

'The white paper reveals a classic bait-and-switch operation in which Spain lures foreign talent by offering official certificates guaranteeing favorable tax treatment, then retroactively denies the legitimacy of those same certificates to impose tax bills up to ten times higher than originally expected. The Spanish Tax Authority, which goes by the acronym AEAT and is commonly referred to as "Hacienda," entices American businesses to set up shop in the country through desirable tax credits and incentives, then unfairly taxes the workers of those companies in perpetuity, long after their tenure in Spain has concluded.'


I'm curious to know about how the EU will handle 'the Spanish position with Huawei'. A lot of sensitive data is on Huawei servers already, like Social Security data, wiretapping data (SITEL), Intelligence Services data, etc.


Maybe you can change your link to the English version to make it easier to know what that's about? https://eslib.re/2026/en/


I use a ubports phone as a daily driver, and in my experience the main showstopper is all those banks, and even all those public institutions, that make mandatory to be a Google or Apple client to deal with them.

So I also need to use another phone, running VollaOS, to handle my online payments but I'm afraid Google will close this option with their latest policies. We'll see.


You need a Google account to access that link. Here's the free access 'About' page https://labs.google.com/pomelli/about/


You can read it here https://archive.ph/LIIbM


Thanks for the link.

I didn't see Wire link to the actual ISD report or peer-reviewed paper, instead of say what the report found without showing me the report so I can read it myself. It's a red flag in my book.


That's not a red flag, almost all news sites are like that now, unfortunately. It's due to the ad revenue model, they don't want you to click away. Pick some reputable news sources you can think of and see if they link their primary sources - it won't be many.


I ignore almost all news sites now, fortunately, and built my own that links to its primary sources. A different revenue model makes this possible.


Related, Jonathan Fink (Silicon Curtain - Silicon Wafers) talked about this issue some days ago but focused on his own experience on X https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL1_ow8s0rY


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