i mean, Android is made by google….
but i think the pixel is particularly well supported by 3rd party roms…
seems doable: https://xdaforums.com/f/google-pixel-9.12879/
banking apps and some others don’t like if your phone is rooted though…

yes well google makes android, facebook owns whatsapp….
if you want to fully degoogle your android you have to root it and install a different ROM….
nothing to do with whatsapp though

want my social security number while we’re at it?
one of them.

well a claim like that deserves a source

my last android didn’t have it preinstalled

use firefox

that’s a lack of imagination….
just because i can’t think of a great solution doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
off the top of my head, here’s a system without a centralized surveillance database:

1. porn site gives you a random token,
2. you then hash that with a time-stamp,
3. get the token signed by your government ID system (like a dmv),
4. return the signed hash.
5. the government only knows that you used age verification for something somewhere….

now the hard part is just explaining cryptographic signatures and hashes to people….
of course people could still give a kid a verified account, but at least it’s harder for them to access it, i don’t need perfection….

i think it should be a little harder for a child to watch anal prolapse fisting porn than “click yes if you’re of legal age”….
but… not a good excuse for creating a citizen surveillance database.

tyrants

that’s not what gatekeeping is….
you don’t “gatekeep” qualifications and skills.
“you’re not really an artist because you were born rich” would be an example of gatekeeping.
“you’re not really a doctor because you didn’t graduate from medical school” is just the definition of a doctor.

i exaggerate, however:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

that cycle will get shorter and shorter until the world is radically changed every couple of days….

you couldn’t pay me to listen to an AI narrated book

explain to me why tiktok is promoting these videos and not censoring them?
they censor cuss words on there, but not videos of encouraging kids to hurt themselves or others?
but, there were always idiot fucking things up in school… well before the internet. tiktok is just channeling that.
….
also, forcing kids to use chromebooks is child abuse… especially since schools spy on kids through them

“guns don’t kill people, people kill people”

not even tardigrades can survive CECOT

on a side note, many viruses and malware detect programming tools and delete themselves if they’re there…

you don’t know anything about nuclear energy

you don’t know anything about nuclear energy

you don’t know anything about nuclear energy