It kinda went like “Sir Kier, here’s an idea - give the tech Bros a bit of grief. Oh no don’t worry, nothing serious that will actually change anything lmao. Just something to give the prols a dopamine hit. Zuck won’t need to release the kompromat… you and that hooker in Milton Keynes lol”
Don’t both operating systems already have parental controls?
Is this not what they claimed that “android system safety core” app does?
Starmer said the plan meant the UK would become the first country in the world to make it impossible for children to take, share or view nude images.
Oh yeah for sure, definitely how it’s gonna work out. If history has taught us anything it’s that teenagers give up easily and aren’t at all persistent and innovative when it comes to being told no. And surely they don’t care about porn at all either.
After all, the online safety bill has been a sweeping success. Something to be proud of.
I know tech companies want identity verification, but I would love for apple and google to both jointly just tell the UK okay and stop selling phones/geoblock the UK. They would have of back peddle so fast.
LOL that’s some type of fantasy.
So children are just not allowed to exist anymore now? Sexuality just pops into existence at age 18? If one so much as shows a bit of skin they will be instantly executed?
Motherfuckers you cant stop teenagers from being horny, just give up.
Fuck off, it’s my phone not yours.
We will own nothing and we will like it
Well well. They have means of manufacturing and you don’t. And they tell you what they gonna do. What now?
Guess I am not replacing this phone, when it dies I go back to no smartphone again. Only had a smartphone for a few months so it wouldn’t even be a difficult change.
Some kind of portable PC might be nice though. Maybe stick a raspberry pi in a briefcase with a USB powered display and mouse/keyboard along with a shitload of power banks to run it for weeks. Yeah, that is the sort of thing a Linux user would do.
They might get fined $20,000!
And those of us who can will continue to fight for as much freedom as we can get. This can easily remove whatever app they install
It’s last been updated three years ago, I’d be surprised if it still works.
At this point I don’t see my Android days going past winter 2027, even on LineageOS
What do you intend to replace it with?
Time to start re-investing in Linux phones.
It’s been years and in my opinion nothing is looking remotely realistic as a primary phone. A de-googled Android phone appears to be the closest contender and I don’t see anything in that space that runs on more than very specific hardware.
Another approach is a dumb phone and a Linux laptop or tablet, but carrying around and charging two or three devices is not my idea of fun.
Note that I’ve been using Debian as my primary workstation since the turn of the century.
That was my takeaway when I was looking into them a few years ago too. I love the idea of them, but they just arnt there yet
The guy who strapped himself to Mandelson and Streeting definitely has no ulterior motive here.
