Not FDA approved to treat Covid.

Doesn’t have to be, that’s what off label use is, and there was no such thing as FDA approved meds to treat COVID then, nice try LOL.

Showing a picture of one that’s sold at Tractor Supply FOR horses, in no way changes the FACT that Ivermectin is an FDA Approved Human use drug.

Ibuprofen is approved for infants, but that doesn’t mean you can give an infant the same ibuprofen you take.

Actually you can, if you’re capable of adjusting the dosage correctly, as it’s the exact same drug.

No, they’re not. They’re taking an FDA APPROVED Human drug that’s ALSO used in Veterinary medicine. Anybody that calls it “horse dewormer” is showing in incredible level of ignorance, and that all their info is coming from political stupidity. Wake up.

Dont have ads in mine. Are you not blocking ads at the DNS level? I assume anybody thats not must enjoy them.

Also, check your logic. You have a phone branded by an ADVERTISING company, many Androids apps are free (to you) because of ads, while the same apps are paid ones on iOS. How do you think that works?

I have a Pixel, run Graphene, sanbox the play store and block ads at the DNS level, seeing ads is a choice you’re making.

My apps all work perfectly, and my phone definitely isn’t sluggish. Can you give any examples?

You could do that now, and your phone will suck. Theres a reason people always stick with mainstream, they’re better. Until that’s overcome (don’t hold your breath) it’ll never happen, theres no market for it. People that want that stuff are less than the 1%.

And? That’s relevant how?

Milwaukee is forbidden from voiding the warranty unless **they can prove you serviced it incorrectly enough to cause the problem you’re seeking warranty service for. ** Which is exactly what they’d say. The Moss act is Swiss Cheese, and the only industry that it’s every been pretty consistent with is the Automotive repair industry. We wouldn’t need to fight for Right to Repair is Moss did it’s job.

Guy at work literally laughed when I said iOS totally ripped off android navigation, thought Apple did that, pulled up a YT vid of when gesture navigation started, he walked away with his head down.

Then of course I followed him around going on about restricted Bluetooth for years, NFC chips they couldn’t use, how long ago the first Google wallet came out, and of course, how I can move my icons out of the way so I can actually see my wallpaper, which is too advanced for the apple devs LOL.

But agreed, iPhones are half descent now, great hardware, just wish people could actually use it the way they wanted to .

Go on? About what? Low IQ dipshits that attempt to politically pander to other low IQ dipshits that dont take 11 secs to do any research by calling an FDA approved human prescribed drug “horse dewormer”? What’s there to go on about?

Feel free to give an actual example of that

I’m talking about home computers

Makes zero difference, it’s the exact same situation, and the example holds.

Skill issue + not my problem

We’re not talking about (you), that’s been established already.

It doesn’t matter if most people are competent,

Yes, It absolutely does, because the people that aren’t are the far majority.

they should have full control over their property.

They do, they can make the decision to root their device, void their warranty, and break their own shit. They waste other people’s time crying because they didn’t know what they were doing.

I didn’t have to nicely ask Milwaukee to unlock the bootloader on my drill so I could use it with torx bits.

Piss poor comparison, you also don’t need to ask your phone mfg to install apps on it, connect accessories, set wallpapers, or any other USER level change. You absolutely are NOT allowed by Milwaukee to open up your drill and self-service it without voiding their warranty, which is the exact same thing. You could do it anyway, but you’re on your own so they’re not going to give you the go ahead on it at anytime. They’re protecting themselves from the 99% who have no clue.

You don’t directly, certain apps are already allowed to access certain system level permissions. You can’t directly without Rooting. Although arguably, many ADB commands are performing root level changes.

All apps are sandboxxed natively. Google apps aren’t any different than any other app, the only exception is normally the play services themselves, which is taken care of in Graphene. But remember many apps ARE allowed to communicate outside of their sandbox if its necessary to the functionality of the app, we wouldn’t have app interoperability otherwise. In the end, if you wouldn’t trust an app otherwise, dont install it just because of the sandboxing.

Dont embarrass yourself with the horse dewormer stuff.

He’s also the guy that carries an Android in his pocket for all his fun stuff!

Really? How much damage to end users deal with when they HAVE admin access vs restricted user accts? When I was in IT, most of my time was wasted cleaning up messes that couldn’t have happened in the first place on a acct where the users couldn’t do what they did.

Youre speaking as somebody’s thats probably competent with your devices, big surprise, most people aren’t!

Most people click random links that would be obvious to a techy person as a trap, install software without checking what it’ll do, blindly giving permissions to anything their shady apps ask for. Then follow random shit on the internet and make things far worse.

No, its not even remotely like that. You clearly have no working knowledge of how Linux based OS’s work. There a reason so many actual Linux distros ship with Root disabled and want you to use sudo instead.

More private in the sense of reducing the play services to a user level app, but its still Google. I’d go with and used the sandboxed play serviced myself because I want shit to work correctly, have my paid apps work, and most apps are going to at store license verification, even free ones, and from the security mindset, its the right move. Have you paid attention to all the rate limiting issues Aurora people have been having? Its basically useless.

The google maps app is a user level app with no priveilged permissions, Graphene or not.

App isolation (sanboxing) is part of AOSP for years now, its not specific to Graphene.

If you use it, you’re giving Google data, thats not escapable. Its up to you to decide if thats data you’re willing to give up or not.

I’ve replaced both Screens and batteries in Pixels over the years as well as Nexus’ before that. Incredibly easy to do. I put a battery in the Pixel 6 Pro I’m on right now last week, took about 20mins start to finish.

The false obsession with building phones like its a decade ago is marketing for things like Fairphone to create a niche so people will buy one off phones that 99% will never buy a replacement part for, or that want unreliable shit like SD cards or want to walk around with wired earbuds which almost nobody uses anymore. I’m all for right to repair, I’m not for keeping antiques alive to appease the 1%.

Aside from that being totally irrelevant, the “owner” doesnt develop it anymore, and you’re clearly not aware of his history. Feel free to mention an OS that even remote compares to Graphene from a security standpoint.