My theory? Musk remotely grabbing the wheel while on a bad ketamine trip

I haven’t tried it myself, but yeah woes in the street is that it works if you enable enough permissions on play services and whatnot.

No Google required! :-)

Though you can enable / install a sandboxed Google play services and mirrored app store, and starve them of permissions except for what/when you absolutely require.

GrapheneOS lets you add “profiles” – essentially separate user accounts, and switch between them. Many folks put any Google stuff on a separate profile and otherwise stay on the surveillance free side.

You’ll want to install Obtainium and probably f-froid, to find all the open source apps you’re after.

Used pixel + GrapheneOS. Takes some getting used to, but most stuff works as expected. The default apps aren’t pretty, but ithe Fossify alternatives are a little nicer.

You’re leaving a whole ecosystem meant to work seamlessly without having to understand how it works, so be prepared for that…

These the same “live free or die” guys that just voted for the right freedom to look in everyone’s underwear before letting them in the bathroom in state and private businesses?

Walz was a rising hope, but the propaganda machine basically chewed him up and spit him out.

They’ve managed to associate him with fraud that other people are responsible for, and which, furthermore, are orders of magnitude worse in R governed states.

But, sadly, you can’t polish your image by saying “I had nothing to do with that fraud!”

Still, I hope he finds a way. He’d be the best president we’ve had since Carter.

I mean… literally every modern American car with a touch screen and an internet connection. Burning gass or spinning electrons, that part is the same regardless.

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Okay, that’s just funny. Hi friend

Just to let you know before I block you, I didn’t read your “reasonable disagreement” of a wall of text

Okay, I’ll bite. I need to add to my block list anyway.

Y’all have heard of the Nazi Bar problem, right? Paradox of intolerance? Which turns out not to be a paradox after all? You should def look that one up rather than waiting for me to type it all out.

I’ve got a first-gen 2017 Chevy Bolt, battery upgraded by recall in the 2nd year we had it (price of being an early adopter). No complaints, no issues beyond having to tape over the chrome on the dashboard so I don’t get blinded.

The only maintenance so far has been tires; brakes last forever thanks to one-pedal driving. Eventually we’ll have to do the regular chassis stuff like bushings and struts, but at 60+k mi we’re still a little ways away from that.

Srsly the best car I’ve ever owned.

Yeah! It’s always the refugees’ fault for the problems they’re fleeing. Grab yer fuckin bootstraps, my dudes.

/s obvs

Yeah just like those other refugees fleeing repressive regimes across Eastern Europe and the southern hemisphere! Go back and fix the problems yourselves with your zero money or political power and total surveillance states.

/s in case it’s not blindingly obvious.

Fucking love postmarketOS. First OS to improve on Maemo on an N900

R Pike is legend. His videos on concurrent programming remain reference level excellence years after publication. Just a great teacher as well as brilliant theoretical programmer.

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