I mean, they provide the operating system and push updates to your phone via a trusted channel, so yeah you’re kinda extending them 100% trust already. I’m more thinking about malware authors here though; criminals or governments (or criminal governments) slipping shady shit onto your phone without your noticing.

Less. If someone has root privs on your phone they can screenshot without your notice and send those shots wherever they want, encryption or self-deleting messaging apps be damned.

Doesn’t matter if the phone is rooted.

These fucking fools, these incompetent baboons. Gods damn the whole lot of 'em.

Aww, you left JD Vance off the certificate. He’ll be sobbing into his Chesterfield.

Nor the desire, I would think.

Better advice would be do it unto others before they do it unto you.

Wise, but long overdue.

Which they might well do.

Half of them are broke as fuck and the other half are heavily invested in oil company stocks. Elon made a poor choice of allegiance.

That’s assuming the private sector had sufficient jobs on offer to absorb the flood of suddenly available people in specialized disciplines.

The Dems are so incredibly useless. Probably doesn’t help that plenty of them are just fine going along with this nightmare. They’ve got theirs and their corporate donors don’t want the boat rocked.

DuckDuckGo offers a nice relay service; you get a duck.com email address that mails through to your regular email, but it strips out all the trackers and other bullshit. It’s good for situations like that.

Welp, my days of not buying Dodge cars seem to be coming to a middle.

The first one fell over and sank into the swamp crater.

Well, ain’t that just a low down dirty shame? lol

He should be deported back to South Africa.

You know the ads have gotten ridiculous when the advertising company says “hey, maybe we ought to cool it a little.”

In what universe would Trump be a better alternative?

Does it need road? Rail? Asphalt, steel, or concrete, which wear down and need to be replaced? Or does it just need a standard charging station as used by current EV’s? FFS, get over your fucking normalcy bias.