TacticalCheddar

I will cut off my left testicle and eat it for breakfast if Judy can name one ingredient in the MMR vaccine.

Water.

My name is Judy.

This… might just be the craziest thing I’ve read since the election

We so far have:

1. Trump turning the White House in a Tesla dealership
2. Trump putting tarrifs on penguins, but not on Russia
3. US warplans leaked because someone doesn't know how to use his phone
4. The US becoming a crypto bro.
5. The US looking to invade Canada, Mexico, Panama, and Greenland while also looking to extort the rest of the fucking planet.
6. The US stealing the Gulf of Mexico from Mexico.

Just to name a few. We are only 4 months into his term people. I'd say Elon humping everything that moves is just a regular tuesday.

I already own a FP3 and that's what I am going to use until it breaks.

That's fair. I can get behind that.

I might consider Graphene in the future, but having to buy a Google phone (even a used one) already pisses me off, compared to a FP (or similar).

You're not the only one. I loathed that I had to go back to Google to switch to Graphene, but life's a compromise most of the time.

eOS also tries to be a "noob-friendly" distribution, that you can buy phones with and you never have to mess with the phones, which means people who don't have the skills or don't want to mess with their phones might trade the risk with ease of operation, and it might be the right choice for them.

Graphene does that well too. I've been using it for a few weeks now and I never had to look up guides like I'm doing for Linux.

If these two issues are what prompts you to call a "security dumpster fire", I would say we at least have very different risk perceptions.

We do. I can't in good conscience recommend it as an alternative to friends or relatives when even stock Android has improved security. I can't speak for your social circle, but all the people I know update their phones accordingly. Maybe they delay the update for a few days, but they don't stay months with their phones like that. Fairphones improve the situation a bit since you can lock the bootloader, but the substantial delay in security updates is still a major risk.

I don't get why anyone would choose /e/OS over Graphene if they had the option. Graphene offers the highest security and privacy, it works wonderful and most banking apps support it. /e/OS just has the advantage of supporting more models, but if you can get a Pixel what's the point?

That is not the only issue, it's just one of the more major ones that shouldn't be dismissed like it's nothing. Another major one is the unlocked bootloader. You can take a look at all the Android ROMS here.

I think people should treat carefully when changing the OS of a mobile device. Changing your OS to something less secure just because you want to shove it to Google and Apple is not enough to warrant it. Better to stay with something safe that you know than with something insecure like /e/OS.

Luckily we have Graphene so you can actually switch to a more secure and private OS that is not made by an American corporation hungry for data.

My god, I just checked that site. The whole thing is a zoo. Millions of years of evolution went into this species only to go down the toilet there.

/e/os is a security dumpster fire. It's even worse than stock Android. Stay away from it.

The EU is the mother of consumers world wide. Some company is taking advantage of you? Get the EU on the line, someone's knees are about to pop.

I don't think there's a financial reason for this. I think he's willing to lose money on his AI in the short time by doing this just so he can score some points with Trump since the EU is soon going to strike his company with even more fines for breaking EU law. He probably wants Trump to stop this from happening and this kind of stuff tickles the pickle of that dingus.

or be our enemy

That would be a geopolitical disaster for the US. No matter how much he yaps his mouth around, Trump doesn't want the EU as an adversary. If that were to happen the US would have 2 flanks to defend against instead of one. And the EU is not Russia. Collectively the EU has the second biggest military budget and the third biggest economy in the world.

Trump is trying to get us to increase centralization at the EU level which is great as far as I'm concerned. But that chucklenut is doing it in a way that will also massively sour relations in the long term. As insane as it sounds, if Trump's successor is going to be like him, China will probably be a more reliable partner than the US. The only caveat is that Taiwan is going to be extremely vulnerable in such a situation.

I'm hoping the US will come to its senses at the next election and relations will normalize. The Americans are pricks, but they are still more ideologically aligned with us than the Chinese.