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TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

Reminds me of when the US tried to fight "terror" by kidnapping people and shoving them in Gitmo because they were wearing Casio watches, which is apparently a brand favoured by terrorists.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Hey, the security is nice, but I really like the detailed control over notifications, GMS prompts, and network access. When I used PixelOS, my phone did things I didn't want it to, and it was hard or impossible to make it stop. On GrapheneOS, the defaults are a pretty good experience. I even recommend it to non-techies since they can use it with the Google apps and its still a more respectful experience, even if they don't need or want the level of control that I like.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

TL; DR-- There are many good reasons for regular people to prefer GrapheneOS

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Well I do use a Pixel (for lineage OS) and I do make my living selling drugs... wait wait this is a bad example.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Oh crap, are they onto us?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago

Shhhh! They don't know yet.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

Well in that case two marijuanas please

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 hours ago

As long as you are in my province then sure! Gotta obey the law after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 hours ago

1/2 and 1/2 with extra cheese pls

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Gotta some of that good ket?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

No not a veterinarian, sorry.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Police are not the brightest in any society.

So I guess somebody needs to tell them that they need to focus their efforts a little better if their current plan is 'anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer'.

Can I suggest they start with the people with drugs, rather than the people with the -- not uncommon - google phones in their search for drug dealers?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 hours ago

Police are not the brightest in any society.

It's a literal job requirement. If you're smart, you're not going to blindly follow orders. Police cognitive testing literally discards candidates that perform well in intellectual tasks. This is not a conspiracy or a joke, it's how police works.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 hours ago

Feds???? WTF!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of getting a notice in Middle School, decades ago, about how a pager was considered "drug paraphernalia"

There was also a big Bloomberg-Era push by the NYPD to arrest any woman carrying condoms on her person, on the grounds that a woman carrying a condom must be a sex worker.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Everything I hear about Bloomberg make me question how he ran as a democrat, and then I remember he fits the democratic party better than anyone else...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 hours ago

NYC's greatest act was tricking everyone into thinking it's a progressive city. I am interested in Mamdani at least.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago

How it used to be old GSM phones like those from Nokia that were then the thing for the underworld.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 121 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

This is a weird advertisement, but I kind of want grapheneOS now.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 13 hours ago (8 children)

Been on it for ~2 years and never going back, fuck Google, fuck the government.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 12 hours ago (3 children)

I've also been using it for like 2 years but I really want the hardware of something like the Fairphone. A fairphone or something similar with Graphene would be amazing

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