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Did they leave the switch in the wrong position?

Ah. That's nasty, what a pain.

Forgive me but what is intune? I did a quick search and just found some Microsoft endpoint protection thingie -- there is mention of a Managed Google Play but I have no idea what that would mean.

Time to step it up to Vuvuzelas :p

I haven't yet tried -- planning to do that in the next day or so when I get the time.

Others already replied with promising results, I sure hope they work for me as well (Scotiabank in Canada is particularly annoying in this respect in my experience, with LineageOS I had to use Magisk and define stealth rules specifically for their banking app).

Edit: As for camera, I've only tried the GrapheneOS builtin/default camera app. It's pretty basic, but I should see if I can get the Pixel9 official camera app on there, it would be nicer to use if possible but the basic one is probably good enough for my purposes.

I'm just a layperson, but doesn't the head and main part look sort of like some species? And those oblong compound eyes..

Of course I know it isn't one, but fun to think about.

Really? Didn't seem to to me; I just installed latest GrapheneOS on my pixel 9 this weekend, and Vanadium definitely let Google Adsense crap all over many sites I visited.

Is there a way to enable effective ad blocking that I missed?

I just installed GrapheneOS on my pixel 9 this weekend, and was surprised the default Vanadium browser doesn't have Google AdSense ripped out or an ad-blocker as default.

(To verify, try visiting slashdot.org with Vanadium, vs. Iron Fox with uBlock Origin).

As a result, I set IronFox to my default browser and am loving it. Why does GrapheneOS not have an ad-blocking solution in the default build? Seems like a big feature they could brag about.

This is why drug research should be nationalized; society should pay for and benefit from the research taxes pay for. Right now, we pay for research and only get the 'profitable' outputs.

I took the jump and installed GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9 this weekend. Easiest alternate OS load I've ever done, didn't even need to see a command line. (I've put LineageOS on many a phone and GrapheneOS's web-based installer is amazing).

Loving it so far. I have three profiles, the main 'Owner' with NO google services/app store at all; and two more 'Personal' and 'Work' profiles that have Google stuff that I alone chose to install.

Amazingly GrapheneOS even lets you deny Google App Store itself permissions to install from untrusted sources (in this case, Google App Store itself) -- I was suprised to see installing just App Store triggered attempts to then load: My Pixel, Google Photos, Fitbit(!!? WTF), and a few others, without any confirmation first. Was able to shut that shit down immediately. (I had never, ever installed Fitbit on my previous phones, so there's no excuse to install it "from my previous device" or whatever...)

I hope GrapheneOS spreads to other phone models. And I'm sure Google has a team planning on how to strangle it before it does...

Really good article; and demoralizing as hell.

Yup, to counter the new Dem they FINALLY swore in. Can't have that Epstein papers release happen. They're gonna run out the clock until they can win that vote.

Worse than nothing... impedes or actively collaborates with efforts against their constituents when it really matters.

MOOOOOOOOOO

Uh huh, uh huh

NOT COW

NOT COW

Wait one god-damned minute. If this is true, and I have no reason to think it is not, why is this not another prominent arrow in the quiver of everyone who constantly has to point out how psychotic Gates and billionaires like him truly are? Jeebus Cripes, what an asshole Bill Gates was/is:

Bill’s face changes. And in just a matter of five minutes he’s losing it.

And he’s screaming at me, “YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM! YOU FUCKED HIM!” Spit — I’m not making this up — Spit is coming across the conference room table and landing on my glasses as he’s like, “YOU FUCKED HIM!” I have no idea what the hell he’s talking about

There are many accounts of how unhinged and abusive Gates was in Microsoft meetings, but this is just off the scale. Speechless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ZDB9h7BLY

Gah! Don't scare me like that.

Hmmmmm

It has occurred to me that a group of resistance people could intentionally seek to be hired in these orgs and sandbag them. Do a decent job for a bit, gain trust, then turn and leak stuff, make poor decisions, slow things down... Would require a lot of dedication and support though, before and after -- plausible backgrounds to get hired, and later on, since it would at some point involve getting fired or quitting, a need for somewhere for these people to land afterwards, career-wise.