Hoping many European Union people, all of us, keep pushing for these to happen too by adding these onto what we want. Also this list will evolve overtime.
Open Source Related//
- Making proper full open source be one of the primary objectives across the whole EU. With GPL being a big focus
- Mandating that Apple needs to allow open-source apps, and being able to change OS fully on Apple Devices. So not being locked down in every way. Same for Android to reverse their upcoming action to lock it down.
- Allowing people to put Linux on any of their devices, phones and tablets, and vehicles
- Suggested by another user in DM: Having Android and IOS owned by EU people and made fully open-source with GPL-license. So we know the OS’es aren’t doing anything shady and have full control over our own devices
- Making it where Car Manufacturers need to give documentation and have the software/OS be fully open-sourced so people can change/modify the CarOS to make sure it is not tampered with at all by anybody and to tune it as needed/wanted
- Having JavaScript be owned by the people and fully open-sourced in Europe (Not trademarked, and kept locked down. This is holding the Web back a lot)
Internet Related//
- Making Internet Service Providers, and the infrastructure be owned by the people through cooperation’s, etc be more commonplace
Device/Vehicle Related//
- Suggested by another person: Size of the phone/tablet/laptop/car/other vehicle types batteries size to be standardized so we can still get a replacememt battery for our device/vehicle even if its been a decade or 2
- Suggested by another person: Standardizing components of a car to be more repairable
Phone Related//
- Suggested by another person in DM: Making Phone OEM’s and then Tablet OEM’s within Europe. As I hope Asian, African, and Latin countries will do too
- Edit based on another person’s suggestion: Mandating phones to have a microSD card slot, and 1TB as a storage option to purchase
- Mandating banks and other service providers to provide apks directly or through F-Droid, and Accrescent
- Suggested by another person: Making Samsung use fastboot instead of Odin because the fact that you have to basically use leaked tools from Samsung just to flash an Android ROM is insane.
Other//
- Having affordable online education available for people around the world to make use of. Can just be the basics up to uni. Having it be where the education is able to be used by the student in their own and neighboring countries only. Certain countries cough cough USA for example cough really need it. (We affect the world and they affect us. Let’s save ourselves future headaches by helping undo some problems where we can. Illiteracy, and no morality being huge problems in various parts of the world that directly affects many things, people/countries worldwide, and various decisions that can have/have had many consequences. A simple solution is education to help individuals become better people, and to be educated in general)
For Funsies//
- Videogames have to work offline (Ubisoft/EA/Etc for example)
- Videogames must offer the ability to run community-run servers when the game has shut down
- Personal Suggestion: Videogames and Software that become abandonware need to be open-sourced
Things get better when we all collectively get things done. We will get to what we all want that are beneficial to all European Union people!! Problem-solving and unity makes anything happen!
Edit: Please save this list to make use of and add on what you think would truly help all of us in EU
Edit 2: The overall encompassing theme is ownership. The people deserve to own what they use. For what they already own, and new things they will soon own.
Let’s do it!! Pick your favourites (or all) and write your MP or other political representative. Also contact the companies you do business with to encourage them to follow along. Sovereignty as security to continue operations can be a good argument. It can help to address your mail to the IT department, hopefully they understand your concerns.
I don’t get the higher storage one. 256 GB is plenty in many cases. What do people store on their phones anyways? A bunch of photos and videos that they’re never gonna look at again? I don’t think the EU should mandate more expensive phones just because some people are glued to their phones and take pictures of everything. Such crazy storage demands would double the price of budget phones. Mandating external SD cards might be a good idea though.
I like a lot of the other ones though. I would even add one. Critical infrastructure should not be allowed to be for profit. Water, railroads, networks, healthcare, some parts of financial systems, etc. Operarors on this infrastructure can compete for all I care as long as anyone can make use of the infrastructure.
8 TB of data storage on once portable device is stupid. that’s eventually 8TB lost.
Yeah that suggestion was not a bright moment for me haha. I updated it with better suggestion based on what others suggested.
If anyone comes up with more let me know
What a messy “proposition”!
A bunch of questinable suggestions, picked randomly around mobile phones generally and (for some weird reason) specific manufacturers
- and slapping in some general claims about affordability of education.
…WUT?!
Like, what are you even specifically targeting?!
Do some actual work, choose a topic. Collect data. Analyze it.
Focus! Choose things/ideas/challenges…/ONE thing you THINK you understand and you THINK you can tackle…
Because when you don’t do at least those things - you get a messy bunch of random things put together.Its a collection of suggestions based on what different parts of the EU want.
I added detail on certain ones for why it was included as well. The why should be obvious for each when thought about since they each effect a different thing that matters to people directly/indirectly. World has enough problems we need more problem-solving and solutions together to lessen those problems
Will format and section them better
It looks like you sincerely do not understand my point: instead of a well-thought ‘proposition’ you’ve collected a random youngster’s wishlist of ‘how things could/should work to their liking’.
It’s even more obvious, when you keep broadening your “wishlist” - with random “suggestions” via DM.)
The inclusion of “videogames should work offline” is especially hilarious and telling. 😆 You got other remarks about mobile storage expectancy - and you fail to understand those too, unfortunately…Please, don’t expect countries/EU would start mandating things some teenager or any random person likes) There should be valid, commonly agreed reasons to enact/mandate some practices as laws. And these mandated practices should be realistic, fair and viable, so that they do not undermine economic growth/opportunities. What bureaucracy often does.
While we are at it, the size of the batteries should also be standardized. If the battery in my laptop is dead after 6 years, I should be able to get a replacement from any electronics store from some reliable brand, similar to aa, AAA or AAA batteries. Right now it feels like each gadget invents its own battery size and capacity that it stops manufacturing 6 months after the product hits the market.
You know what I like that let me add it to the list. If you or anyone else reading this has other suggestions let me know
P.S. I added a couple others from what I came up with too.
Mandating that Apple needs to allow open-source apps, and being able to change OS fully on Apple Devices. So not being locked down in every way. Same for Android with their upcoming action to lock it down. Allowing people to put Linux on their devices
Also force Samsung to use fastboot instead of Odin because the fact that you have to basically use leaked tools from Samsung just to flash an Android ROM is insane.
Adding that in!
Having affordable online education available for people around the world to make use of.
Many books come with codes that you input into some system. And the books are relatively cheap (30€ max in Slovakia) plus many countries have reduced VAT on them.
Making it where Car Manufacturers need to give documentation and have the software be fully open-sourced so people can change/modify the CarOS, and make sure it is not tampered with at all by anybody
Won’t happen because of a mandatory car black box
Which has nothing to do. There is no reason why it should not be open source and, beside, even if eCall is a black box, all the other software on the car can be open source and/or documented.
Right, the eCall black box is a perfect example of how this other stuff could be implemented, at least according to my layman understanding. There is a set of standardized minimum functionality and a set of optional functionality. All related to telematics control. There could be a requirement that manufacturers use a clear standardized interface for entertainment/comfort and a clear separation between those and critical functions, so that those could be handled by user replaceable software/hardware. Feels like that would be a step up from what we have now, where I’ve been in a modern car (2024 BYD) and connecting androidauto caused the entertainment computer to crash and the dashboard to go blank for about 60 seconds while I was driving down the highway. I can understand including a display buffer to push some entertainment content onto the dashboard, but there should be separation.
Next step after all this would be to ask what parts of this really benefit from being proprietary. Maybe if we had better standards between components we would get better repairability.
I like the way you think and phrase it all. Please talk more with others about all this where you can! We definitely should have all this be done overtime!
Will add it to the post
8+TB storage in phones? Putting that much data on a mobile device is kinda nutty. Of you have that much data you need to access on your phone regularly I’d strongly advise hosting whatever service is eating up that much space somewhere else and just having your phone connect to it.
Ok maybe 8TB is overkill (or good for future proofing) but 1-4TB is a reasonable ask at least haha.
For me personally it would be for videogames (Retro/Gamenative for Steam & GOG/Open Source Android games), and shows/films I own. Also, for fangames, animation, and comics creation of projects I am making.
Rather have it and not need it yet rather than need it and not have it. Phone storage technology has been complacent for long enough now too.
Edit: Updated post with way better suggestion
Making that mandatory would make phones much more expensive and most people (me included) would just not need that much storage.
How about pushing for expandable storage? Might not be as fast (i.e. with SD cards), but seems more doable to me
Nah just host all that stuff somewhere and access it remotely. That level of inbuilt storage in a device just drives up the cost of it massively. Failing that just get a device with removable storage and stick a big SD card in it.
Makes sense I like your suggestion. It is definitely a better want of what people would want to have
I thought the thumbnail was butter for a second
OpenButterOS
Haha it does look like it now that you mention it
Did you mean some? What is soke?
Yes I meant some
