• voluble@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    “If GrapheneOS devices can’t be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.”

    Wonder if Motorola feels the same way.

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      Imagine if California then declared a ban on the sale of GrapheneOS compatible phones.

      would be fun to see.

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      9 hours ago

      They can just sell their normal phone. As long as the user is able to run the installer it doesn’t really matter.

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        During prohibition era, there was a brick of dried grapes being sold as a nutrition supplement or something like that, but it had a “warning” sticker attached saying specifically not to dissolve it in a specific quantity of water, and if that were to happen, do not let a specific quantity of yeast to fall in it, and especially not to let it sit for 6 weeks, or else you might end up with wine, which is forbidden!

        I can see a cheeky sort of company selling a phone with a little warning label attached to it…

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          If they ship with Android but confirm that GrapheneOS works, those who even know of GrapheneOS’s existence will put in the effort to install it themselves. It’s totally viable and a simple plan.

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          mandatory age verifications on the OS isn’t a viable economic decision either, but that’s not stopping Media Matters and Meta from forcing their shitty anti-privacy policies on citizens.

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          If you can’t open chrome on a pc, connect an android phone to it, and use a simple web tool you’re probably not capable of any actual level of digital privacy.

          This isn’t me being elitist its just the fact that the resources needed to make this shit viable and easy are being tied up to corporations in order to make more easy-to-use corporate spyware.

          Privacy under fascism takes time, effort, and education. Stop fucking expecting it to be OOTB. Society is literally engineered against that. Its not a reasonable ask of open source devs making privacy tools.

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            What else can those who value privacy and have computer skills do but try to be a good example and offer to help to those around them without the know-how?

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          That’s probably not a viable economic decision though

          Should still be a good deal for Motorola. There’s a bunch of folks now who buy whatever phone runs GrapheneOS best. Whichever company courts us gets our business.

          I’m sure we’re not a landslide, but sometimes niche communities can still make a huge difference for a company.

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            4 hours ago

            Hi, yes, it’s me, I’m one of those bunch of folks who would willingly switch off Google’s Tensor crap modem to ideally a Motorola phone with a Qualcomm modem that can run Graphene.