Imagine having to warp reality THIS much, just to make it fit your twisted narrative?
Fascists.
uwu they are working under very hash conditions to terrorise children and clother civilians
If you ever want to know why capitalism turns into fascism, look into how many companies willingly and knowingly did business with Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy.
IBM made computers to help the Holocaust, because the Nazis could pay for the service of the machines to be built.
Google is just a modern IBM.
Fascism is a business choice, always has been. Hitler didn’t get popular by himself
The Model M in my attic: heavy breathing
Hey I’m also guilty, I have had a few thinkpads. All second hand, but I did love my T420.
I just bought a (Lenovo) Thinkpad T580. Good laptop. I do plan on buying buy an IBM-era Thinkpad in the future. Hopefully, it doesn’t come with a copy of Mein Kampf or Völkischer Beobachter.
With this “new” America, who knows?
Why do that when we can just watch it in real time right now?
Bet everyone keeps on using their google phones though…
Moaning online aint gonna do shit. Not buying their new phones, not using their old phones, will send the message you want to send. Get an old nokia, or a dumb phone, or two cans and piece of string, or no phone. If you think this is action by google is them cosying up to fascists, then you have a duty to harm that company by not giving them money.
They rely on convenience to trap you. Turn your phones off, dont buy the new ones, get dumb replacements if you need to. Fuck apple and fuck google for cosying up to this admins Gestapo bullshit.
One of the founders of Fairphone is working on a European alternative phone OS called Mobifree, which is also open source. Google free Android also already exists.
Their phones don’t make them that much money. Don’t use the search service.
It’s just hard to drop the maps especially when car software will only pair with google maps. That’s about the only thing that does not have an easy alternative.
I’m using organic maps, and a simple phone holder does the trick in the car. No need for the on-screen navigation.
Cops will give a ticket for distracted driving if a phone is used even in navigation. The screen is a safety feature.
What? As long as I program the route before starting and don’t touch my phone until I arrive, nothing happens.
Nothing to do with touching it. If it’s presently in use in any way they will ticket for distracted driving. Some people are even pstd if someone beside the driver is using their phone. The screen provided way to circumvent this issue.
In which country is that? I’ve used my phone for navigation for the last 10 years or so without issues.
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Buy a map book. Plan your journey in advance. Cars were a thing for decades before map software was a thing, and everyone muddled through. You can too.
That’s unrealistic and a much slower option than other map software.
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I grew up using maps to navigate. I learned land navigation before you were working a full time job. I don’t use Google’s search engine. I don’t buy their new phones. How do I know you’re not the fascist bootlicker, being a rage-baiter online to sow discontent?
Well, you could try not being a fucking moron? I mean, Im telling you all to drop google and apple. How in the blue fuck would that advance my position, if I was a fascist bootlicker?
Look, its real fucking easy. You do something, or you dont. But if youre not going to, then be fucking honest about it. Dont make shit up about how its too hard to read a map, or that you wont be able to make calls or whatever other stupid as fuck excuses have been made. You are all moaning about the gestapo running around, and how these mobile providers are supporting their actions. The action required is clear, turn off your phones. Dont buy new ones. But here we are, fuck know how many replies in, and its nothing but “Oh, I would. But then, how could I find my way around?” Or “oh, I would. But linuxphone isnt ready yet…”. Like old nokias or dumb phones arent a valid option. But what do they not have? Social media bullshit. Which makes the argument they are making pretty fucking clear. They only care about being seen to be standing up to fascism. If they cant get the up arrows, they dont want to do it.
Its the same with Amazon treating its workers like shit. Everybody moaned, but no one stopped ordering because that would inconvenience them too much. A generation of moaners, thats all these people are. With no fucking backbone to actually stand up for what they, say, they believe in.
It was also much more dangerous. I know, I was there.
Somethings today advanced for safety reasons for very good reason. If it comes negotiating conspiracy over safety I think it’s at that moment that it’s fair to say it is unreasonable.
lol If you were there, then you would know it was fine. Im almost 50, this nonsense about the past being a fucking warzone is just that. Stop making shit up to justify you being too much of a pussy to stop using a fucking phone.
Well Someone is so delicate and offended in this thread they started ad hominem attacks and name calling. It sure isn’t me, little snowflake. Maybe you should calm down.
lol yet another fucking idiot who thinks saying stuff makes it true. Just admit youre spineless, and wont tolerate even a moment of inconvenience to fight fascism. Youre just here for the worthless internet points, saying popular thing like a fucking drone.
So does this mean Google will also block services that are being used to harm other vulnerable groups, like all the ones being targeted by Snowfla- I mean ICE?
Google says a group of masked fascists kidnapping children from their beds is a “vulnerable group”.
To be fair, they did set expectations when they got rid of the “don’t be evil” moto.
google recently fellated trump and the gop. Google’s youtube is pretty instrumental in drawing in more incel men to voting Rs, by platforming right wingers out of context , like kirk,shapiro, fox, ,ETC.
Brown shirts were a vulnerable group too!
Goddamn Gestapo
The agents who implement state violence are not a group. They’re agents of the state.
And now Google is directly collaborating with an oppressive autocratic regime.
Curiously, while in character, it’s about the stupidest thing companies can do, at least according to Mike Brock
But yes, corporations are notoriously short-sighted when it comes to autocrats, even with a long history of ultimately getting their assets seized by the autocratic regimes they assisted into power.
I’d like to think this all might be a time to teach common end-users the joys of FOSS and, if necessary, jailbreaking, but that’s still a big ask for the general public even in the face of abduction and rendition.
For the rest of my life I will never forget that Apple and Google went out of their way to defend and protect the Nazi SS of our time.
Absolutely fucking evil and unforgivable.
Not saying this about you necessarily, but the sad part is that there are millions of people who share this feeling, but will still buy the latest iPhone and browse Youtube with it.
If we had a better sense of community, people would be able to form actual boycott movements that have impact, but we’ve been trained to avoid other others, stay “rugged individuals” and keep our opinions to ourselves lest we face social backlash. This is all deliberate and designed.
We are far, far beyond the point of a boycott having any chance whatsoever of taking down the richest corpos in the history of the world.
Power is too entrenched at this point. I think the only real thing people can do at this point is flip the fucking table and stop putting more meat into the meatgrinder.
This is why you hear so much whining and crying about falling fertility rates, so much propaganda and push to increase population. It’s the one actual challenge to their power. You can’t control people who don’t exist.
Because none of you willing to suffer for your conviction. You’ll moan online, but when asked to go without carplay or android auto, all of sudden fascism isnt that bad. You can make all the excuses you want, but the reality is that you are all spoiled. And wont even go back to dumb phones for a few months to a year to make your point.
motherfucker you don’t know a damn thing about me
I might not know you, but I do know that about you, cunty chops.
Absolutely agreed. This is the last straw for me, I’m degoogling
Agreed. I’m pulling out of Chrome and google search. Their software is shipped with everything now and I wish I could do more. They’ve been sliding into evil for a long time now.
This is exactly why sideloading is very very important.
And why it’s being removed
yep
Ah yes… the guys with masks, guns, the backing of the president, and virtually unlimited federal government resources are a “vulnerable group”
“Don’t be evil unless fascism is better option”
Someone recommended Kagi in another thread yesterday and that night I finally became 100% google free. Search was the last big hurdle. I was literally the biggest google fanboy. I had google home devices, google wifi, I wanted all their devices, had all their services, everything was set up and integrated. De-googling was fucking hard but I did it and I’m super proud and I’ve learned so much about how tech works setting up my replacement services and devices. Fuck you Google.
I had google home devices, google wife, I wanted all their devices
😳
Lmao wife, WiFi, waifu? Where does one begin and one end I don’t even know.
How was search and not the usual maps the hardest? The search is what I feel like most people switch first.
Idk I started using organicmaps (comaps now) long long ago. I guess I don’t have a great fundamental understanding of search. Are not most other search engines just hopping on the back of google search engines? I honestly don’t know. Its not an area I’ve spent a lot of time learning about - or maybe I’m just a backwards dude haha.
No, that’s fair play! I think you were just ahead of the curve with ditching google maps :D I use a combo of OSMAnd, Comaps, and Magic Earth (not open source, but has live traffic data).
Nisce I haven’t heard of OSMAnd or Magic Earth I’ll have to poke around!
The moment any real alternative to Apple and the iPhone is viable I will go all in. Fuck them both, please Linux phones come to save us, lol.
If Linux phones become viable, I’m willing to pay half the salary of the engineer who develops the Linux equivalent of Android Auto and Apple Carplay. As long as they live and work in a really cheap country lol
So as long as its convenient, you’ll stand up to fascism? lol.
There needs to be an alternative that WORKS first and foremost. Most Oneplus 6s are getting worn down, what am I going to run Linux on? Because Linux on most phones doesn’t give you a functional phone at all.
How do you expect me to switch to an OS that on some devices might not let me make phone calls?
There is, its called a nokia. You can pick up any old 00s phone and youre good to go. Reachable and able to make phone calls. Or, and this will be fun, you can go with out. Society managed just fine for a very long time without being always reachable. Time to put the glass and metal brick down. Well, if standing up to fascism is important to you that is… But we both know the answer, dont we?
Exactly. There will never be a convenient alternative for people like this, so they’ll just continue using Google and Apple while angrily scrolling through their news feeds.
