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I understand that the world we live in is dangerous for women and children. I also respect your personal experience. In the end I can’t change what you experienced and you can’t change mine. I’m just against making a generalization and classifying people as one or another. In the end we are products of our environment and any generalisation we make is the result of what we know/experienced instead of being objective. As for the age I don’t agree with it but I also acknowledge that times are changing and our values changing with it.

I wish you well and I hope that you’ll have better experience and be happy. Take care, stay safe and healthy.

As a man neither me nor my friends to my knowledge ever texted, messaged or try to communicate with a woman just because she smiled, laughed or joined the conversation in any way. However I’ve met with many delusional women whom thought men responding to them in a normal manner because of their early communication as a sign of those men attracted to them, trying to hook up etc… This being said, I know for a fact that there are also delusional men around whom would think you’re giving signals even though you’re not. However that’s not the standard nor they are a majority, neither men nor women. If you’re finding yourself in such an environment then you should realize you’re not in a healthy environment nor the people around you are normal.

I don’t think we do… I already addressed your firmware point and I believe I said proper Custom ROMs. If you’re calling GrapheneOS, DivestOS, CalyxOS or LineageOS and many more as unsecure and claim they don’t have up to date security patches I don’t know what you’re talking about. Considering that the big Android brands such as Samsung, OnePlus, Xiaomi etc… Lags behind in such security updates as far as one year or never provide such security updates for old devices. You must be ignorant of this fact.

I have an OnePlus 7T Pro which was released in October 2019 and I bought it in 2020 and I still use it with the latest Android and security patches thanks to Custom ROMs. Mean while OnePlus doesn’t provide any updates since January 2023. So, by your claim my phone would be more secure with 2023 security patches than having a proper Custom ROM that has 2026 security patches. Tell me you see what’s wrong with your claim please.

These Custom ROM projects are followed very closely by the community, like Linux project. They provide proper support via Android Open Source unlike your claims to reverse engineered drivers, because the companies are legally forced to provide their source codes. Some companies do it in a timely manner some do it late. From my personal experience phones that have Qualcomm chip sets don’t have problems with having the drivers and source codea. Only the proprietary chipset such as Samsung’s exynos and Mediatek are the problem that needs the revers engineered drivers.

So, to sum up, no, we don’t talk past each other! It’s clear you don’t know what you’re talking about when it comes to Custom ROMs, Android Open Source, how the software and firmware works on Android.

Nope it seems there was someone else’s face overlayed on Mona Lisa’s face and that’s why they redacted it.

I have nothing against supporting a project nor I can tell you what to do. However Fairphone has been in the market since 2013 iirc. That makes 13 years, yet here we are still getting aged hardware for a new flagship price. Supporting a project such as theirs doesn’t justify the shitty phones they make in my humble opinion.

And yours is a vast exaggeration. You do realize all of these phones are using either Qualcomm or Mediatek chips and designs which already have those tracking firmwares right?

All of these companies are using these firmwares. As for the Custom ROMs it depends on the device and the custom ROM you’re using. So, calling them entirely working on reverse engineered is a bit much. That’s why these so called free phones need hardware kill switches. Even that article you linked states this. So, unless these guys come up with 100% pure homemade hardware and Linux based OS they will never be free from tracking. Even then they won’t be free from tracking. Hence my point: You can get the same level of de-google and untraceable stuff with using a proper Custom ROM suitable for your device.

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I get it it’s hard to make a good product and sell it cheaply, but at these price points, with the hardware there are providing, installing a custom ROM is the cheapest and arguably the best way to de-google.

Some of these are selling you the 5 years old hardware with today’s flagship killer phone prices. Unless there is a big change in the Android phone market, these prices for these devices will never be justified in my eyes. Not even for the native Linux experience.

It seems you’re having a misconception that long lasting appliances means they are invincible or something like that. In the real world it means they don’t go bad by time and usage.

Think of it like an old car. You can use your old car for a very long time given that you do your maintenance properly. They are also repairable. Yet these new modern cars can become unusable because some microchip burned, or battery life ended or there was a shortcircuit etc… Same goes for the appliances.

Making a product to last long with proper maintenance and a making a product to fail after certain years of usage are very different ways go about business.

Lastly, one company cannot satisfy the whole market. No matter what there will be people buying their products because of their long lasting legacy.

Spoken like a true American… Yet the rest of the world doesn’t give 2 cents about what you do over there. This kind of long lasting appliances would be a huge hit.

I do that on flights…

It’s all about the cooking and seasoning. I tried fried ones they were like chips. Goes very well with beer.

In my experience the boiled bugs usually tastes bad at least to me.

Humans generally are genetically programmed to be in groups (social, cultural etc…). These individuals usually have lower IQ than average or at the bottom margin of the average, they are also open to suggestions and lack proper understating how the real world and human relationships work due to their environment(family&social). So, they are easier to be recruited by other idiots whom they think are cool people.

Sober me can fuck right off! (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

What I would never understand is how these nepotism babies thinking they achieved something by themselves.

So, whose to stop criminals establish gangs and gang up on people? Having crack pipe dreams doesn’t relate to real life!

Blasphemy!!!

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