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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Toasted_Breakfast@lemmy.today to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

This idiots going to get it banned

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[-] TwentyEight@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 days ago

Graphene OS is not for criminals. It is just basic privacy protection.

This cunt must be some sort of shill or plant for government or surveillance capitalists.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago

Graphene OS is not for criminals. It is just basic privacy protection.

Criminals like privacy, too.

This cunt must be some sort of shill or plant for government or surveillance capitalists.

Neither. Just another shameless YouTuber farming for clicks with no regard for the damage it causes.

[-] TwentyEight@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Criminals like privacy, too.

This is moronic.

All apples are fruit therefore all fruit are apples.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 14 hours ago

...what is "moronic", exactly?

[-] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 55 points 3 days ago

I love that he is implying that GrapheneOS is the criminal OS of choice. /s

That had not even entered my mind before just associating it with privacy. Thanks Linus what a real help pushing that narrative with the title and thumbail.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

If you watch the video, they're citing Spanish officials. It was a big hurrah that went around a couple months ago.

https://www.androidauthority.com/why-i-use-grapheneos-on-pixel-3575477/

But yeah, it makes for great clickbait too. You know the GOS guys are foaming at the mouth already for their weekly HARRASSMENT debacle.

[-] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago

In an era of countries pushing things like chat control over and over and grasping at straws to try to ban encryption and pushing verification laws its so helpful for a big channel to spread the impression GrapheneOS is the criminals choice.

Just the type of helpful branding needed.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago
[-] leviathan@feddit.org 29 points 3 days ago

It certainly feels like GrapheneOS is the only project that is a threat to the government, which we all know have unlimited resources at their disposal, unlike Graphene Foundation.

this narrative that criminals use this OS, is exactly the excuse they'll be looking for, the privacy community don't have the high ground in this reality that we live in, considering past events (e.g. chat control) this content does more harm than good. (but some YouTuber has to get their Ad revenue)

he mentioned something about convenience in the last part, well if you throw them some money.. they could hire someone to fix those issues..

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago

A Pixel phone in my country costs about twice as much as in the USA, and our monthly minimum wage is about four times lower... privacy is a luxury hard to afford :/

[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

Oh no, not this tech illiterate idiot again. Ocasionally he shows up in some threads just making a complete fool of himself.

[-] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 36 points 3 days ago

Fuck Linus.

[-] RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 3 days ago

I have Linus blocked in my frontend and have no interest in unblocking.

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago

Why do people still think he's relevant?

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

Because he has 16 million subscribers? 🤔

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

That's not a valid reason.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 5 points 3 days ago

It's what makes him relevant. Your personal feelings are not a valid reason.

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

They could be bots or socks, he could have paid for them. He did have a scandal where he lost a lot of followers (me included).

That doesn't make him relevant. 🤷‍♂️

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

They're not. And you know they're not.

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't know anything about him since I stopped following him. The only thing I know is that he's not trustworthy.

[-] Ulrich@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago

Ok so now we've moved the goalposts from "relevant" to "trustworthy"?

[-] Geodad@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Not really. He's neither.

[-] Forgottengoldfish@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago

I think Gamer Nexus settled the matter of Linus' value - feel free to disregard and move on.

[-] Catalyst_A@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

I didn't know about it and just looked up the gamers nexus video. Bless gamers nexus for having our backs.

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 days ago

never gonna watch the "Idiot's" channel of choice

What in the clickety bait

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 days ago

I'm kinda astonished he uses more than 100 apps... who needs that many apps?

[-] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 8 points 3 days ago

I just checked and I apparently have 137 apps on my phone. I think most of that though is just reading about some FOSS app, installing it to try it out and then just forgetting. I seem to have 4 different maps apps for example lol

[-] PiraHxCx@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I just counted mine, 28 apps, 17 of which came with the phone and I can't uninstall - so I actually only installed 11, and 2 are games.

[-] upstroke4448@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 days ago

I think if people look past the clickbait title and thumbnail the video is actually a positive for GOS

[-] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 3 days ago

Why are you letting someone you don't like take up time in your life

this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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