FuglyDuck

It’s…. Not illegal.

You fuck up your boarloader you brick your phone. That’s not that dangerous, plenty of ways to do it safely.

When I talk about “risky” I mean that your bootloader is now cracked and any one wanting to suck off your data has had 90% of the work done for them.

“Just liking what Putin does to him in private” is one method of recruitment.

You can install custom roms to your phone.

Most device manufacturers put up roadblocks, and carriers will try to talk you out of it, but you can.

The first step is cracking the bootloader (which is a mobile version of the bios.)

This step is a usually one-way step, and leaves your device vulnerable. The exception are google pixles, which are designed to allow you to re-lock it. Which is why graphene is only available for pixels.

well, except that a civil war won't have battle lines and territory.

both sides are everywhere and fairly spread out. It'll be sectarian violence. More like The Troubles, with insurgent actions and exploding drones. also, missile strikes.

lets, eh, be honest here.

Everybody knows he's a russian stooge.

I'm not weird. I act perfectly normal when no one is watching. honest.

wake up or not, dun care. just don't get up. laze about, snuggle up and put on your feel-good movie.

I agree that graphene is the hands down best. But for people who have a device and want to switch, and that device is not a google pixel, well that severely limits your options.

That superiority enables leaders to be assholes. It was an intentional effect of the propaganda, and is a standard part of the Asshole-Authoritatian™️ playbook!

But, eh, America is truly exceptional- in how fucked up it is.

An open source phone from top to bottom would be my dream, but Android is about as far removed from that as an iphone. Google took Linux and made it into a Frankenstein nightmare that is wholly dependent on them.

have you considered flashing custom roms on it? e/OS, LineageOS and GrapheneOS (restricted to google pixel for hardware+privacy/security reasons) are all opensource.

unless you're going to crack your android and install a custom rom (which, with limited exceptions, is extremely risky to do,) your choice is to either use an apple product, or a google-based OS.

Apple has a slick design, and while android (and many of he devices it runs on) aren't awful, it's hard to change. and virtually every mainstream mobile device manufacturer is using some some form of android os with a custom UI, including Huawei (which no officially a fork, because of sanctions.)

everything that's not android or apple is pretty much going to have to be installed custom. (there's a few linux-based things that aren't android, mobian, for example is a mobile-version of debian.)

I'll leave it to the other to rant about why apple might be better than android for privacy and useability, given the caveat of not hacking a custom rom.

I kinda want all their printers to spontaniously combust and catch fire.

And the insurance payouts on that to be the cause.

or something like that.