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TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

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[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 10 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Well I do use a Pixel (for lineage OS) and I do make my living selling drugs... wait wait this is a bad example.

[–] dangercake@feddit.uk 8 points 56 minutes ago (2 children)

Well in that case two marijuanas please

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 3 points 55 minutes ago

As long as you are in my province then sure! Gotta obey the law after all.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 39 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] dangercake@feddit.uk 1 points 35 minutes ago

1/2 and 1/2 with extra cheese pls

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 3 minutes ago

Oh crap, are they onto us?

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 1 points 38 minutes ago
[–] Amberskin@europe.pub 5 points 1 hour ago

Feds???? WTF!

[–] Part4@infosec.pub 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Police are not the brightest in any society.

So I guess somebody needs to tell them that they need to focus their efforts a little better if their current plan is 'anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer'.

Can I suggest they start with the people with drugs, rather than the people with the -- not uncommon - google phones in their search for drug dealers?

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

Police are not the brightest in any society.

It's a literal job requirement. If you're smart, you're not going to blindly follow orders. Police cognitive testing literally discards candidates that perform well in intellectual tasks. This is not a conspiracy or a joke, it's how police works.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 28 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Reminds me of getting a notice in Middle School, decades ago, about how a pager was considered "drug paraphernalia"

There was also a big Bloomberg-Era push by the NYPD to arrest any woman carrying condoms on her person, on the grounds that a woman carrying a condom must be a sex worker.

[–] icegladiator@lemy.lol 8 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Everything I hear about Bloomberg make me question how he ran as a democrat, and then I remember he fits the democratic party better than anyone else...

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

NYC's greatest act was tricking everyone into thinking it's a progressive city. I am interested in Mamdani at least.

[–] Aitolda@lemmy.world 113 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

This is a weird advertisement, but I kind of want grapheneOS now.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 26 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Been on it for ~2 years and never going back, fuck Google, fuck the government.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I've also been using it for like 2 years but I really want the hardware of something like the Fairphone. A fairphone or something similar with Graphene would be amazing

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 9 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The Graphene OS people have always been talking about how they eventually intend to develop their own hardware. So, possibly they will make something good eventually.

[–] bilb@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Not develop their own hardware, but contract an established manufacturer to do it for them. Which is good, they have no business doing hardware!

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[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 15 points 8 hours ago

Been on it for about 19 months now, it's what Android should be.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 72 points 11 hours ago (7 children)

The police: 'We've encountered a difficulty with out paid spying software. Welp it must be just the criminals.'

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