did you have the $45/month one or the $25?

You can still get the disc drive for it though. I mean, it is fucked up its sold separately but it isn’t just no disc drive availability at all.

Well, for now it is. Latency is also a big issue

Lease and rent, or piracy.

Wait are you talking about without the disc drive or even with it?

Man, you really don’t like Graphene huh? I see you mention it a lot through comments and posts.

What is weird though is that you say in your other comments about how important it is to mention Lineage and others during discussion of privacy based mobile OS’s, and yet get all weird anytime anyone even mentions Graphene OS like it isn’t important to also talk about them, only the ones you like to push.

That kind if behavior makes me think anything you recommend is suspicious as fuck and I’m sure I’m not the only one noticing that.

so when you freeze your credit your credit score can’t go up either?

Paying things on time has no effect at that point then right?

And because of this it makes whatever they fuck with have unnecessary security issues.

Also though they are using it to straight up spy on you whether foreign or not. They got in “trouble” for it once and pinky swore not to do it again.

Fuck the NSA

My electric company here in the us mines bitcoin with it and charges us a “peak time incentive” pricing model.

Sometimes I wonder what it would have been like to be born somewhere like Finland.

I saw that on an article about the MiG switch before it came out and it was saying at the time that you could still fake certs and Nintendo didn’t have a monitoring system in place for it.

I’m sure they’ve changed it now though especially from that other users comment you replied to but was halfway hoping someone might tell me it was still possible.

Are you saying that increasing prices of a good or service to the point where people don’t want to pay for it anymore doesn’t contribute to a rise in black market sales and distribution of the good or service?

I think you’re mistaken.

Huh I wonder if they’ll ever figure out the correlation there…

Never had a phone run as well with any other OS

Micro G has to run on the root level. If that isn’t a concern for you then Graphene OS probably doesn’t fit your needs.

Sounds too European for the “land of the free”

Shit, Google would probably offer a private jet fuck an RV.

Its almost as if even the better party of the two still has its own agenda that its trying to fulfill.

One that isn’t necessarily in our best interests.

Of course there is a worse side of the coin but you gotta love how any time it is something that really fucks the people good (especially about privacy) they all suddenly magically agree and can pass it in moments.

The fact that even the most progressive one out of the bunch who’s supposed to be the way forward and should’ve had that nomination last time even voted yes on it should jolt everyone awake. But it will not.

We were warned about a two party system.

I pay for proton mail and proton drive and still use Mullvad for my daily driver VPN.

Only time proton VPN is worth using is if you need the port forwarding like for gaming or something.

The fact that you can’t discern what it is doing and it can’t be disabled makes it invasive software. There’s no shortage of qualified experts who agree with what I said and many others who point out glaring security vulnerabilities that come with using it. I linked a few for your convenience.

https://www.eteknix.com/nsa-may-backdoors-built-intel-amd-processors/

https://www.theregister.com/2018/01/06/amd_cpu_psp_flaw/

https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-PSP-Disable-Option

I’d say with all of the above at the very least its invasive software that has complete access to your system and all of its files and processes.

Spyware by definition is “Any malicious software that is designed to take partial or full control of a computer’s operation without the knowledge of its user.” The fact that you can’t look into what all it can do makes it capable of doing this.

Oh you mean they’re going to underclock the expensive new shit I bought and have it underperform to fix their fuck up?

What an unacceptable solution.