TLDR: Drug dealers in Catalonia have started to adopt GrapheneOS en masse leading to Catalan police suspecting anyone with a Google Pixel is a drug dealer

  • IllNess@infosec.pub
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    17 hours ago

    Minimum wage in Spain is €1,300 per month. A Pixel 9a is under $500 and under €550 and currently on sale for $449 and €500. A couple of hundred can get you a Pixel 9. What exactly is a not obscenely price for a flagship phone to you?

    And I don’t even understand your second comment. People spend over an hour a day on social media alone.

    So the normal person in Spain could buy this phone and the normal person in Spain does have the time to figure out how to install a “rare” operating system. A “rare” operating system that’s free and easily copied.

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      8 hours ago

      Rare is a matter of popular practice, not difficulty.

      It’s rare to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat, but not difficult or expensive to do.

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        7 hours ago

        When someone says “rare operating system”, the word “rare” describes “operating system”.

        Here is the statement again:

        Normal people either can’t afford these devices or don’t have time for all the hassle of installing and using a rare operating system on a phone.

        In your sentence, “rare” is used to describe “it”, a pronoun, which refers to the action “to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat”.

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            2 hours ago

            I commented a user’s use of “rare”. Then you did the same to my comment.

            I didn’t think how the initial poster use of the word “rare” meant to describe “a matter of popular practice, not difficulty.” So I replied back to you.