We were promised a technological future with ways to search for things of interest, find out how to get to places on a map, etc. Instead the government can now track us in our daily lives anywhere and everywhere we go 24/7. That would be great in a world where the government is of the people, by the people and for the people. However in reality they want to find us and send us to el Salvador. WTF!

Until things change, I am not buying a single electronic device. Not an iPad or a TV or an empty-tree player. This is ridiculous. And now we can’t even know anything because all news is coming from the Murdocks and they just killed off NPR and PBS. This is how the bad part of the story starts.

See you all in a fire pit somewhere!

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    19 hours ago

    Using open source software on lineage OS or graphene OS with no Google Play services solves the vast majority of the problems brought up in this article. It doesn’t solve all of them, but it solves most of them.

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      I moved over to mostly open source apps where possible. My main issue will be the banking apps that insist on safety net.

      Graphene os is great on paper but I would like to buy a different brand than pixel like fairphone.

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      Barrier too high for the normie. We need a commercial Graphene OS offering.

      But even then the normie will be compelled to install GPS. Can’t even fucking get an uber anymore 🤡

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        not graphene but i know the company Murena offers phones of different vendors with i think e/os, maybe other OS too