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   vozer 🎀 (vozercozer@vozer.cafe)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 22:52:49 JST vozer 🎀

   fuck off.

   imagine if windows required you to wait 24hrs before you could install programs outside of the MS store.

   your phone is a computer, and this is an anti-competitive move that has the intentional side effect of incentivizing consumers to install apps from google instead of other markets.

   “you can’t do this!”

   “but i’ve always been able to do this!”

   waits a year

   “fine, but now you have to wait 24 hours because because because i said so!”

   “oh! well in that case, i guess it’s not so bad!”

   everyone that is happy about this is an easily manipulated buttbrain

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 22:56:49 JST SuperDicq

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     @vozercozer@vozer.cafe I'm say this over and over again because I think it is important, but this stuff only applies to Google's versions of Android.
     
     Other versions of Android will most likely not implement this feature.
     
     Do you think Android distros Replicant, eOS, LineageOS, etc. will implement this feature? Of course not.
     
     Just don't use Google's version of Android.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 23:22:17 JST SuperDicq

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     @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe I know it's easy to say >phones are proprietary
     
     But reality is everyone needs a phone nowadays. Even if just for emergencies and such.
     
     You used to be able to get by without a phone, as there was a phonebooth on every streetcorner, and there were also emergency phones on every highway, etc. Also non emergency things things like road maps, etc. are all disappearing from the streets.
     
     You need a phone. Even I have a phone.
     
     But yes pick a phone that has the least amount of proprietary crap as possible. It's a good thing to tell people to use something with LineageOS, or PostmarketOS, or the Librem 5, etc. instead of telling them to not get a phone at all (because nobody will listen to that).

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Friday, 20-Mar-2026 23:22:18 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @vozercozer It'd be nice to turn all these negative press about this into PAS about those OSes and devices which could run them. "Get these phones to control what apps you can use" or something, I'm tempted to make graphic about it. But are there any new phones in market which could boot those.
     
     >inb4 phones are proprietary
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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Saturday, 21-Mar-2026 00:09:05 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @vozercozer >You need a phone. Even I have a phone.
     >But yes pick a phone that has the least amount of proprietary crap as possible. It's a good thing to tell people to use something with LineageOS, or PostmarketOS, or the Librem 5, etc. instead of telling them to not get a phone at all (because nobody will listen to that).
     
     My thoughts exactly, for how much I hate masses we are going to need them to change course of industry towards freer future, we are better off recommending them actionable alternatives. I think Stallman has said this as well.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:45:44 JST 翠星石

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     • Pi_rat
     @SuperDicq @Pi_rat @vozercozer No, you really don't need Stalin's dream, even though the entire world has been sabotaged to make everything inconvenient.
     
     Highways do have emergency phones.
     
     If I was going to have an emergency, I figure a gun would be more useful than a demon rectangle.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 22:47:47 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe Highways do have emergency phones.Not anymore in my country. They removed them because people are expected to wear a phone on them.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:25:35 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @Pi_rat @vozercozer >The proprietary country has a malicious government that assumes that demon rectangles will always work, even after a collision and will always have a charge.
     Many such cases.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:30:27 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe Also they think this is fine, because all cars manufactured after 2018 are equipped with "eCall", which is a system that will automatically call emergency services to your location if it detects a crash.
     
     Which is of course one of the many reasons why I would never own a modern car, because I don't want my car to have a wireless modem, location tracker and microphone for eavesdropping.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:30:28 JST SuperDicq

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     @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe Yeah I know. I'm not a fan of it either.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:31:42 JST SuperDicq

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     @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe Yes, but only if you remove the eCall warning light as well. If you simply disable eCall and the warning light that it is disabled is on, you will not pass inspection.

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:31:44 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @Suiseiseki @vozercozer Is removing it illegal?
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:32:20 JST 翠星石

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     @SuperDicq @Pi_rat @vozercozer The confidence in wireless mobile technology working is really incredible.
     
     It's somehow guaranteed to always work, even though many crashes will easily cut the battery cable and/or short everything.
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:37:43 JST SuperDicq

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     @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe Yeah just like how "child safety" is always used as the excuse to ruin computers, "crash safety" is always the excuse to ruin vehicles.

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:37:45 JST Pi_rat

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     @Suiseiseki @vozercozer As long as it works for intended purpose who cares that it does not work for advertised purpose
     
     @SuperDicq >Yes, but only if you...
     Horrible
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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:40:06 JST SuperDicq

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     @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe Because that's the way the law works. If the system doesn't exist, it doesn't have to work. But if any evidence of the system not working is there, it won't pass.

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     SuperDicq (superdicq@minidisc.tokyo)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:40:11 JST SuperDicq

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     @Pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com @Suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com @vozercozer@vozer.cafe The inspectors may know the system was removed. As I said, if the system is not present, it doesn't have to work.
     
     Because otherwise older cars that never had it in the first place would no longer be able to pass inspection.

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     Pi_rat (pi_rat@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Mar-2026 23:40:12 JST Pi_rat

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     @SuperDicq @Suiseiseki @vozercozer Does it work even if inspectors knew that system was removed. Or it relies on their not noticing missing system.