They’d have to make Android propiatary for that and that also means that all the contributions made to it by everybody else will stop. Don’t see that happening.

They are working on their “own” phone which should alleviate a fair number of concerns with what Google might be doing to sabotage them.

I remember that staistic from decades ago. I wonder if it still holds true. The Dutch have been undergoing their own neoliberal fleecing of late. Rents are skyrocketing. Deregulation and union busting has taken their toll.

According to some cursory googling it is. But you are also correct with the rest you’re saying here ofcourse.

Yes, please. The more users we have on Graphene the harder we are to ignore as a user base.

I’m working off of the assumption they are, but you could be on to something.

You can function in today’s society just fine, it’s just less convenient.

But the problem here is not only that you need a smartphone to begin with, but also one specifically from either Google or Apple. Having something else (like a phone with Sailfish or GrapheneOS or any other custom rom) also doesn’t work.

There’s isn’t even an actual relationship between paying people more money and the price of the product to an individual. Not like that at least, and especially not with high volume fast food where the amount of time an employee takes to make a single unit is neglegible.

Big Macs in the Netherlands are in the same ballpark as in the US, price wise, despite higher wages for “buger flippers” and better overall benefits, job security and working conditions.

It’s almost like all the organizations that had issues with this rescue op and told people to just leave it alone knew what they were talking about.

As much as I’d love to rail on AI over this, removing backups with an api call? Excuse me?

If I have to get turned back into a baby in place then no thank you, quite happy with life as it is. If we are going back in time there’s ofcourse ample time for things like doing the right investments and retiring from work before even leaving school.

And I can find my wife way earlier in life.