@elly @sleepyowl imo the urgent crisis rn is with Android OEMs which are walking back on the whole "OEM unlock bootloader" contract. Full control from the reset vector up was always hard to get (esp. on retail consumer devices) beyond a certain level of platform complexity, was always a freedom-nerd niche desire. But both the PC and Android contracts included custom OS support because there's real demand for that. Evidently some vendors are still somewhat cool (Moto collab with Graphene sounds positive?) but between Xiaomi announcing straight up "no more unlock for you" and OnePlus doing weird efuse-blowing things it's the most worrying space right now x_x

We really need to build an actually compelling and desirable platform (see the Modal.cx vision) with the best FOSS components we have, with which we would be able to campaign for our requirements much better. IMO just having abstract and nerdy demands would never get wider political/regulatory/business/NGO/etc attention, while "this is the free people's digital sovereignty sustainable green repair awesomeplatform we want X Y Z requirements to be met for our future innovation to unlock freedom horizons and independent sovereign cyber security" is the best shot we can have.