Congrats on technically understanding how a VPN can work while completely misunderstanding how most public ones work in practice!

Like with phone carriers, ISPs can see the numbers (IPs) you are connecting to. If you use a VPN, you’re always connecting to the same IP, which is unusual from a regular user perspective and would tend to indicate VPN usage.

Sorry, I’ve had a lot of assholes telling people to use GrapheneOS like it’s super easy for most people to just go out and get a specific phone that is relatively low in market share (making them harder to find second hand too) like it’s as easy as running to the store for a loaf of bread and they get super aggressive when called out on it and it has, in turn, been pissing me off.

GrapheneOS is legitimately great IF you have a device that can run it, which most people don’t. A lot of it’s fans are raging assholes. Sorry for assuming you were one of them.

If you were already talking about limited storage on devices that typically can’t use SD cards, then yes, you’re a fucking idiot if you say “Just use an SD card to increase your storage! It’s EASY!” Which is what you’re doing when people are talking about Android issues and you say the same fucking thing about GrapheneOS.

TL;DR: There’s a moron here, but it isn’t me.

That’s not what scrolling means in this context. If you are intentionally seeking out specific information, you may need to scroll, but you aren’t “scrolling”.

It’s not an easy install if it literally can’t be fucking installed on most devices.

… what exactly do you think the phase “impossibly difficult” means? Because “impossible” is a level of difficulty ie. THEY ARE NOT DIFFERENT THINGS

Then don’t recommend it for people that can’t use it, JFC.

Maybe, but if you have a drink, it doesn’t force me to also be having a drink just by being nearby.

Pretty sure it’s only banned in indoor public spaces. Outdoor locations like bus stops and the like seem to still be fair game.

Because you’re doing it TO me. If it didn’t affect me I wouldn’t give a shit, but you smoking (well maybe not you specifically, I don’t know if you are careful about not smoking around people, but many smokers are not) DOES affect me.

It’s not really about stopping people from smoking per se. I mean, that would be nice, but it’s not realistic. What this does is more heavily discourage smoking around others who do not consent to being forced to breath second hand smoke, since those people will now have an enforceable mechanism with which to punish that behaviour.

My point is that if it requires a specific device that most people don’t have to install, then it is not easy to install for most people, because it literally cannot be.

Cool, I have a Samsung S23fe, please feel free to install it for me. I’ll wait.

Admittedly, being facetious there, but my point is that if it requires a specific device that most people don’t have to install, then it is not easy to install for most people, because it literally cannot be.

It’s so easy to install! You just need to be in the 3% of smartphone owners who actually have one! EASY!

rolls eyes

Parents ALREADY decided. They decided they didn’t give enough of a shit to use the parental controls already available to them. No legitimate reason to push this shit on everyone else.

The willy pete scene fucked me up for a while.

Tyranny. I mean, you could end up being the good guy, depending on what that means to you, but you start leading an army to conquer part of the world at the behest of Kyros the Overlord. I think I would classify Kyros as a sort of Lawful Evil type. He seems to want to bring peace and order to the world, but chooses to do it through conquest and harshly enforced laws.

If all your neighbors shoot themselves in the face, it’s not your fault they did that.

Right? Like, I love GoG. If I’m able to get something on GoG I typically will, even if it means paying a higher price to do so. But that’s definitely not because it’s a better platform to use. It’s because I appreciate their stance on DRM and support for keeping old games playable on new systems. I buy from them despite GoG Galaxy, not because of it.