Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer

• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I paid $350 or so for my Pixel 8 refurb. New wasn’t that much more.

  Pixels are way less than top phones, like iPhones or Samsungs.

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• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Normal people either can’t afford these devices or don’t have time for all the hassle

  Had a friend who was getting by on $2k/mo and got herself a $1400 top of the line iPhone, because her carrier gave her a reduction in her monthly payment plan (for an obscene amount of debt and locked-in service on the back end). Her brother jail-broke it for her and did the normal “cleaning off all the bloatware” due-diligence.

  This is just something we all put up with in the modern day. “Normal people” have a harder time navigating the bullshit, but its a lake we all have to paddle through.

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• AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can install Graphene from the browser, it’s really not a huge hassle to install especially if you do it right when you get the phone.

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• spamspeicher@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Interesting, at least four people in my closer circle aren’t normal people. Including myself.

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  • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What sorts of drugs do you and your gang sell?

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    • spamspeicher@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I am not allowed to tell you. I don’t want you to buy a Google Pixel.

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      • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’m more of a Fairphone guy myself.

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    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Mint?

      Maybe Arch or even Ubuntu?

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      • spamspeicher@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Only one of those.

        I use Arch, btw.

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  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Do you live in that region?

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    • spamspeicher@feddit.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      No. Do I have to to be a “normal people”?

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      • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah. Only Spanish people are normal. Found that out today.

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• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  rare operating system

  android

  🤔

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  • sip@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    maybe they dumbed down “a custom ROM” or just didn’t want to name GrapheneOS

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• Elextra@literature.cafe ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The A series lines have been the best value smartphones generation after generation. I would not say theyre expensive. I have bought each current gen for about $350 or less (excluding tax), no trade in.

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• IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Minimum wage in Spain is €1,300 per month. A Pixel 9a is under $500 and under €550 and currently on sale for $449 and €500. A couple of hundred can get you a Pixel 9. What exactly is a not obscenely price for a flagship phone to you?

  And I don’t even understand your second comment. People spend over an hour a day on social media alone.

  So the normal person in Spain could buy this phone and the normal person in Spain does have the time to figure out how to install a “rare” operating system. A “rare” operating system that’s free and easily copied.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yup, install process takes a few minutes, it walks you through it on a pretty friendly web page.

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  • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Rare is a matter of popular practice, not difficulty.

    It’s rare to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat, but not difficult or expensive to do.

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    • IllNess@infosec.pub ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      When someone says “rare operating system”, the word “rare” describes “operating system”.

      Here is the statement again:

      Normal people either can’t afford these devices or don’t have time for all the hassle of installing and using a rare operating system on a phone.

      In your sentence, “rare” is used to describe “it”, a pronoun, which refers to the action “to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat”.

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      • MangoCats@feddit.it ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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• TheLowestStone@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The refurbished pixel 8 I bought cost a fraction of what I’d have paid for a new phone and the installation took 5 minutes.

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• Benaaasaaas@group.lt ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pixel 9 pro with 512Gb is obscenely expensive. Pixel 8a, with minimal storage is pretty affordable. 7a dare I say cheap.

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• icegladiator@lemy.lol ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  GrapheneOS is most used on old Google Pixels which are anything but “obscenely expensive”

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• Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can buy a Pixel with Graphene already installed, and they’re by no means obscenely expensive.

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  • noxypaws@pawb.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    From whom? That sounds inadvisable

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  • smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Now THAT is something I wouldn’t ever trust.

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    • DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I get the instinct but that is why GrapheneOS only runs on Pixels. Pixels have hardware needed to verify you are running the genuine GrapheneOS. Still safer and cheaper to buy stock and spend 10 mins installing Graphene of course.

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      LET ME HANDLE YOUR PRIVACY FOR YOU MY GOOD SIR!

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    • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Supply chain attacks? Never heard of 'em. /s

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• rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pixels are mid range if you buy a generation back. I have 6a and paid $250 two years ago.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I paid $350 or so for my Pixel 8 refurb. New wasn’t that much more.

    Pixels are way less than top phones, like iPhones or Samsungs.

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  • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh my, I hear Google is going to brick the batteries of the 6a just like they did with the 4a phones. Due to worry about them catching fire. So good luck!

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, it needs a battery

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Batteries are a part of the device that will wear down over time anyways. The real problem is making them inaccessible. I have no idea how hard it is to replace on a pixel though.

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      • Bluewing@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It looks to be a pain between the tools needed and the hassle. It supposedly takes between 30 minutes to a couple of hours depending on your skills and some luck.

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  • MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I have 6a

    My condolences

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    • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well shit. Guess I need a battery

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