Astroturfing is only allowed from premium accounts.

Don’t worry, the market will adapt to solar becoming a better product.

Isn’t that what you always tell us?

I actually don’t know a lot about those models.

They last so long I tend to skip a few models at a time, and only bought my pixel 8a about 6 mths ago. So there’s been no need to research.

I’m sure there’s some good reviews or spec comparisons online. They tend to be excellent phones though.

I’m a tech snob but also a cheap bastard and they always fall into that middle part of the Venn diagram.

You can get a pixel in the “a” series for a lot cheaper than the main series or pro.

I always run them and they last forever.

For example a pixel 8a is just under $400 full price.

Graphene also runs better than android due to lack of bloat, so you won’t notice the lower specs quite as much.

Graphene is probably overkill for a simple (commercial) privacy use case but it seems to be the best for confounding google and also stability. So that’s why so many people use it.

And there’s not much in terms of downsides.

thERe arE no sTRIngs ON mE

That’s what I mean. It might force Linux underground.

And just when the year of Linux was finally arriving 😉

Imagine if the new age-verification-on-OS laws are actually sponsored by windows to shut down viable competition.

Just go to the grapheneOS website and it will walk you through it.

I have a medium competency with this kind of thing and the actual install was shockingly easy. Took about 15 mins.

You just change a couple of settings on your phone (it walks you through everything), plug it in and then press some buttons in sequence on their site.

Just make sure you back up everything you need from the phone first.

Follow orders or be “lightly” tortured.

Ideally they’d prosecute the lawbreakers, rather than penalise the institution.

But yeah, that would mean upper and upper-middle class people seeing consequences. So probably not.

I should call her…

You’re supposed to test them fairly regularly.

I get that monthly might be a pain, but once or twice a year is probably smart, for safety equipment.

This is how AI accuracy is also measured.

It’s really shit for the customer, AND it’s cheap?

Double win!

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For me, it’s “pwease” because I like that sub relationship.

This is a wonderful combination with the no jury trial thing.

“Suspicious internet activity” and then a judge throws you away for 6 months with zero effort.

Sounds like a great deterrent/ enforcement system to me.

Yes. This is what people will do, I expect.

The Dance of Dragons (but with nukes) incoming.

Fox news: Is North Korea “woke” now?

8 series CPU and a 4070 is an insane mismatch of hardware.

I wouldn’t even be sure that they’d go in the same motherboard (the CPU socket changed around the 10 series, right?)