Custom roms can be just like distros. The problem is non unlockable bootloaders and device attestation and that’s only getting worse with the help of the govs. If we wanna try something, it would be directed here. But they’re really convinced only big corps can do it.

Anything else installed on a device, including GrapheneOS, will render it a dumb device. People don’t want that, they don’t even want freedom actually. They don’t want linux, never picked it up for decades. It’ll even get banned.

Welp they now have to protect us from all the cybercriminals in possession of citizen data after they failed to secure their systems.

Google phone sales don’t even register as change

Neat. Good to know. I’ll still look for the “we don’t collect shit” software.

If you’re gonna use a free one, might aswell. It’s just their barebones service with 3 countries. I don’t see why it would be any different from the paid option within the same company. There’s no different TOS afaik.

The company collects and processes fingerprintable information, including IP address, for “legitimate interests”, whatever those are at any point in time.

This Application may track Users by storing a unique identifier of their device, for analytics purposes or for storing Users’ preferences.

‘Privacy’ is not even mentioned anywhere in the website, not as a feature, not as a consideration or demonstrating awareness.

Except for GDPR this or that. Who cares, just don’t collect data…

No github page, can’t even take a peek at the development.

I’d say not privacy friendly. Would not install. Because while they don’t seem like a data mining operation, they’re still collecting something and there’s risk of database leaks, and privacy is clearly not a focus.

it’s 1 more after 8! Is there no mercy?

Lot’s of actually, theoretically, technically. Still, being investigated over speech and potentially be subject to lawfare, even if proven right after wasting time and money, is still speech discouragement to everyone watching.

You don’t even make money with this?

be nice to him, he’s baffled

this happened on the discussion forum some days ago

Source is my own eyes, other people also commented on it. I was about to comment as well, just went to take a breather and once I arrived it was all deleted. User merely had a palestinian flag pfp, topmod here thought a mere flag was political. Too bad there’s nothing ‘political’ about genocide. There was literally another user with US/Israeli flags as pfp with their posts still active.

I also know it happens a lot over there. Some times it’s justified? Sure. Other times there’s also no source for their claims. If they read this they’ll probably play victim too.

Yeah I saw him sensoring someone because of a palestinian flag. That’s when I logged off.

Member states are null, they can develop their reskins.

They’re already developing with google/apple. What more do you need to know… They shouldn’t even be developing anything, but now the point is about trying hard so they rise to “sanctity” and give us an alternative.

There’s no propaganda, the propaganda is theirs using children yet again as customary. Serious people merely read the room, because when they resort to games to try repeatedly pass obvious mass surveillance, that tells us what they’re coming for. It’s obvious.

So I’ll be back at the end of the year, be proven right and you got your pay and your karma anyway.

Android forks

Soon to be locked out from participating in society because of play integrity, digital IDs and age verification. The EU is very likely to use strictly Apple/Google, the very monopolists they “despise”. Don’t give me the “just go to the post office by foot”… I could also “technically” live in a cave, I guess. Man stfu, your bullshit doesn’t stick here.

80% of android users will freely install whatever APK from wherever.

I should care because? Do they care about me not wanting google shoved in every aspect of my life?

I don’t agree. While you may give google some upfront money for hardware, when buying new. Installing a degoogled OS effectively removes that device from their claws. Since their revenue from hardware sales is much less than their real business which is data gathering/surveilance capitalism and advertisement network. In one year your data generates them roughly the amount of the retail price of a smartphone. So even buying a pixel to remove google, makes a dent on them.

Their hardware is atleast more secure and allows unlocking. Which is worth paying for and none other manufacturer even considers. That’s the only reason GOS is pixel only. And the reason I would give google some slack. Just a tiny bit of slack.

it’s gamed and rigged. there you go.

They only have to win once, we have to win everytime

I would somewhat disagree with you in that no effort has been made to keep people from being sick. That’s a pretty bold statement.

It’s high time for “bold statements”. I’ve been in both left and right, and they’re the same or atleast I know none of them supports me. This system fosters nothing more than inequality. Failure to regulate unhealthy but profitable materials and ingredients and addiction tactics away. That’s the shit the poor - soon all of us - are able to buy. There’s 20 chemicals in a simple product (they don’t even call it food), sold with a plastic wrap that is gonna go around the world and come back inside our brains. That’s why, just one example.

All this to say if there are advancements using computer technology on this, they’re nowhere to be seen making a difference. So what’s the point…

You can instruct people on healthy living which will extend their life and the quality thereof, but you cannot force them to do so.

As I keep saying poverty is correlated with sickness. Poverty of mind too. The internet didn’t solve this, far from it.

Oh and the number these data centers are going to do to the environment? Why do we need thousands of them? If we look at who’s moving around and what kind of laws world governments are enacting… it’s not gonna be good in a thousand years…

if it weren’t for medical advances, I would probably not be typing these words

I’m happy it worked out for you.