Starmer probably has more dirt on him than Jimmy Seville and they are using that to keep him in line.

Same here. Google pixel 10 with grapheneOS.

I got a Google pixel 10 just so I can have GrapheneOS as soon as possible. I am glad that Google’s plans to lock down Android are blowing up in their faces.

This is why new laws are being passed to verify ID on a hardware level. They know the enshittification has progressed to the point that people are starting to break away. They want to put a halt to that by any means necessary.

Is this for real? Because it sounds too unreal to be real.

I remember when cool tech gadgets were cool and not undisguised spy tools.

Mass surveillance for advertising is just gross. I remember a comedian making a joke saying that ‘anyone here in advertising? Please kill yourself!’ Also just because someone got all the info on your for advertising, it doesn’t mean the government won’t get access to it, because right now 4th amendment and other traditional restrictions on government overreach are moot if all they need to do is buy the data from some broker on you. This has actually happened and it was upheld in court.

The precedent for stuff like that is older than you think, but also not what you think. For example some serial killers and serial bank robbers were caught because some homeless person searched through their trash looking for something they can use, eat, or sell (all of these things are legal to do BTW) and they discover things like body parts, firearms, or brand new clothes that also fit the clothes that said criminal was wearing when they did their crimes, and said homeless people reported this to the police.

But I am quite confident that someone who just so happens to stumble upon something vs. a company watching your every move are two very different things.

I just got grapheneOS on my new phone (it is a google pixel 10, but it is the one that can handle that…) I needed a client to use my gmail which will probably be the last thing I get rid of.

I last used chatGPT in 2024. Never found it satisfying.

When I bought my dream machine it was the first one without an optical drive… and then I bought an external blu-ray player/DVD burner.

Now that I think about it you are right.

Already deleted my account. Not going back.

Isn’t like building a basic encryption tool coding 101? I didn’t build one when I was learning to code, but I did have to make a caesar cipher scrambler/unscrambler with python years ago. I don’t have the code or remember how to do it, but does that make me a hostile actor now?

Fuck this shit. The UK is not longer a free country. And fuck Israel even more for their damned work over the decades to make this possible.

I wish I could find a deal like that, but as it stands I will need to pay a lump sum to my provider to pay off the remaining balance on my Samsung S23, which I am going to keep. I will format it securely and use it with a prepaid sim as a travel phone with next to nothing on it. GrapheneOS goes on my Pixel 10 and I want to degoogle it. It will pose a mild issue since sometimes I (sadly) do need to check my gmail, and I really don’t know if putting it on my GrapheneOS is a good idea.

I am also in Canada. I just called my mobility provider and told them I wanted a new phone and that i wanted to pay off my current phone immediately.

So which is it? Pixel 9 or 10?

I want to get a pixel 10 so I can have grapheneOS on it. Fuck it! I am always in a race against time.

I deleted my account already.

Don’t forget about terminally online single adults, too.

I can’t believe how lucky I was to upgrade my desktop before the surge. This is an outrage!