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No, no, Fuck You, no!!
I will have no phone that employs "Counterfeit Conciousness" to listen to every fucking word of every fucking conversation leading to (among others):
Fuck right off with this.
This solidifies for me I will never own a Pixel phone.
And, if this becomes ubiquitous in Android, I'll have to rethink that, too.
Doesn't mean I'll necessarily go to iOS; more likely completely rethink having a phone at all.
Fuck Google entirely. Don't be Evil my ass.
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Additionally, just fucking stop scammers from using fucking gift cards.
Surely it's not that hard to detect that a gift card sold in Australia is being activated in Russia.
The gift card people have absolutely no motivation to fix this problem. They are making bank.
They need to be given motivation, through legal obligation.
Obviously.
Sounds like a pixel phone is exactly what u want just u want GrapheneOS on it.
Never recc that again, Linux phone or nothing
Bro what's wrong with GrapheneOS?
Linux phones don't really exist as a practical thing you can replace android with.
Fxtec pro comes loaded with the users choice of android, Ubuntu touch, sailfish or lineage. Choices exist. Though I'll have to find a bank that has a working app or a good website
Fuck Android. Run Calyx or Graphene. it's not difficult for any PC enthusiast.
unfortunately both of those have a very small list of supported devices.
This βοΈ, which nobody tells you, and then about 20 other things nobody tells you except that one Indian vlogger who installs everything on everything.
TL;DW - if you have a relatively recent Pixel, youβre probably good. Everything else, get out the forum posts, an old POS windows box you donβt mind trashing and start finding out what doesnβt work. You might get some Samsung to mostly work ok.
And next phone same person buys is the latest same pay by installments piece of lock downed shit hardware. And continue to complain on lack of support for shitty hardware, shitty firmware and shitty software. Stop buying shit , custom roms have been around since android 1.1 . GOS and Calyx aren't recent inventions either.
Lineage official supports a fuckton of devices as well. Including every single pixel made. https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ So quite well documented.
Which include pixels
yeah, it's all about individual priorities
Can't back up everything on my phone without root and cant root without wiping the phone so..
How have you managed to save things on your phone you cannot back up without root?
You're just straight fucked if this is true. Don't save permanent things to your phone. Your phone is transient. Phones are not permanent.
edit: so the "phone shit is permanent" crew came out early on this one? Bruh, your phone can be taken from you in an instant. It's transient.
I mean, I would own a pixel phone.... with linux on it....
We got baited by piece of shit journos
It's a local model. It doesn't send data over.
If they want call data they can buy it straight from service providers anyway
It's an official announcement written by Google.
Pixel is the only device that is supported by GrapheneOS (sadly), so you can own Pixel just for installing grapheneOS on it.
I like that
Since it's processed on device they don't (necessarily) need to transmit and store your conversations in some central location. I guess theoretically this could be done in a secure way.
So, it's on device, which negates many of the above worries. Does that change things? I'm all good with private AI, personally. Slippery slope and all, though...
Man cuts off nose to spite face; news at 11