I miss the Michael Bazzell podcast.

yeah, but you cant trust anything any police officer tells you.

they are liars by policy and anti-intellectual by culture.

I run GrapheneOS because it gives me full control over what my phone does and gives me the ability to restrict access to anything on all applications or uninstall any application I don't want on my phone even if it causes some functionalities to break.

This is how all devices should be by default.

Had lawmakers gotten their heads out of their asses and made actually having control over a device that you own like this a legal requirement for all devices, I wouldn't need to be using GrapheneOS.

If cops don't like it, it must be good!

If you can't manage the software on your phone, do you really own your phone?

I’m not a criminal, don’t pirate things, don’t have really anything more to hide than anyone does

But I like privacy, I like having some level of trust in my own device to not be sending my information to both my government and foreign ones.

It has nothing to do with crime.

This just in, criminals drink water.

We can't spy on you now, so you're up to something! -government

No better recommendation than cops hate it

That settles it for me, I'm installing it right away.

Criminals do a lot of legal stuff :33

Heck yeah! Let's all be criminals!

Be gay, do crime.

Maybe there should be a detainment mode that starts an android 6 emulator. Then they'll just think you're poor.

I'm free, finally. Just got my Pixel 9 last week.

A privacy-focused operating system may seem more trouble than it’s worth. But when I replaced Google’s Pixel OS with GrapheneOS, I found it to be a transformative experience. For one, the installation was painless, and I didn’t lose any modern software features. Installing aftermarket operating systems used to equal a compromised smartphone experience, but I didn’t find that to be true in the case of GrapheneOS.

Case in point: even though GrapheneOS doesn’t include any Google services, I was surprised to find that you can install the Play Store with relative ease and almost all apps work flawlessly — even most banking ones.

Oh, nice. This sounds promising! I'm adding it to my list: [guix, emacs, graphene]

I've been thinking about switching lately because as this phone gets more updates it keeps gradually getting more annoying. Only trouble is my carrier is Google Fi right now and I don't know if I can reasonably continue using that on Graphene without privacy concerns.

Though, I originally started using it only because it was cheap. I could probably afford to shop carriers soon.

a lot of non-criminals do too... what's their point? /s

because google is constantly datamining the phone, and enshittified alot of it too.

Do all my authenticators still function with it? That's like the only thing holding me back.

Why would I listen to the words of criminals?

Most people aren't trying to make using their phone harder. It's great if that's your hobby, but it really does make things a whole lot harder.

I too commit the crime of valuing my privacy

I guess I'm a criminal?

Well I guess there isn't any better endorsement of your product for privacy than when the cops tell you not to use it.

And criminals carry guns too... Just sayin'

Ootl: should I be looking up at this phone and OS combo? I'm not entirely happy with mine, I have a Motorola android.

That's how incompetent morons think. Least shocking thing I'll hear today

Wow, criminals are using the last vestige of free and private options for a telephone?! Who would have thunk it? Those dasterly devils, them!

Time to finally do it. Wish i wasn't so lazy.

“Criminals” who want to protect their family