The crabs do that through self organization. There’s nothing stopping anyone from building a group of like minded people to do it.
Buelldozer
The object of a system of authority is order, not justice. Justice matters only after injustice sufficiently compromises order.
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Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Android@lemdro.id•Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwedEnglish3·21 days agoOkay I think I mis-handled the threading. I thought you were replying to the comment about dumb phones and those are most definitely available in the United States.
You are looking for something that runs Sailfish but that OS is meant for the Euro market so its targeted at handsets meant for use there. The entire supported device list is a measly 16 handsets and all but one of those are made by Sony! It’s a crazily niche OS.
The radios inside American cells phones are controlled by parents and property standards…
Yes, I’m aware of that. It’s literally no different for European cell phones. The Jolla C2 is a rebadged Reeder S19 Pro Max S and whatever modem is buried in that thing is going to have precisely the same issues. Patents are global and at this point even the Chinese are following them, much less a small Turkish manufacturer like Reeder.
(which is a fully programmable tracking device almost hidden to the OS BTW)
They’re all like this. All of them. Even the ones in a handset running Sailfish.
you cannot reproduce or even modify the radios due to this horrible law in the U.S called DMCA
The DMCA has very little to do with Software Defined Radios…which is precisely what the modem chips in these handsets are. Frankly I don’t WANT people fucking with the SDR in their handsets. You can do it with lots of other SDRs (GMRS, Amateur, WiFi, etc) and people inevitably abuse the ability and fuck things ups.
The DMCA is a rotten law but isn’t anywhere close to the biggest problem when it comes to SDRs and Phone Handsets.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Android@lemdro.id•Google: 'Your $1000 phone needs our permission to install apps now'". Android users are screwedEnglish10·21 days agoIn the U.S you can’t buy any of these devices…
No. My Father in Law has one and they’re available from Verizon, AT&T, and others.
…and one of the unofficial conditions of you getting access is that you have to have government surveillance and soon censorship on your device…
Where are you getting this disinformation from?
I guess that shit is just in the water here in the US.
The United States was founded with the help of private firearms and it’s citizens have always distrusted and disliked their own Government. What you’re talking about is literally baked into the fabric of our culture.
Meanwhile, showing a cop your gun is a recognized form of suicide.
Meh, it’s all about where you are. I could wander around open carrying a firearm here in Wyoming and have little or no trouble. If I tried it in a liberal area of the country, for example Denver, I’d almost certainly have a problem.
It’s all about the culture of the area.
Some dude’s AR-15 is not going to stop a tank.
You don’t use the AR-15 on the tank. You use it on the people involved in the logistics chain. If that tank doesn’t have a driver, mechanics, fuel, spare parts, etc then the tank is useless. Insurgencies in far away lands didn’t have this option but an insurgency at home certainly would.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?English5·1 month agoMFA is the biggest hurdle. I literally could not do my job without it.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated adsEnglish3·1 month agoI want Roku to fuck all the way off with that plan.
Those aren’t tanks and Police Departments get them for little or no money as the US Military declares them surplus. It’s a federal program called LESO / 1033 and it’s been around since the '90s.
A civilian armored car would do the job too but I suspect there’s lobbying/insider trading involved.
Police departments used to do that but someone noticed that while Police Departments were spending money on armored vehicles the military was throwing them away. It was a waste of money all around and so the LESO / 1033 Program was born out of the National Defense Authorization Act of 90/91 and then expanded and made permanent in 1997. (Remember that year, it’s important).
The program actually makes good fiscal sense. Why waste equipment when one branch of Government no longer needs something while another one does.
A big impetus for police departments participating in the program that many people online today weren’t alive for was the North Hollywood Shootout in 1997. A couple of Bank Robbers carrying full auto weapons and wearing body armor tore the shit out of the Hollywood PD because the Police Department didn’t have the equipment or guns to deal with the problem.
In the end they had to use hunting rifles taken from a nearby civilian gunstore and a commandeered armored car. Every Cop in the country was scared shitless that it would happen to them because almost no departments were equipped for that level of violence. So they started grabbing surplus IFVs (MRAPs now) and other gear from the 1033 program.
As time went on and the “Warrior Cop” mentality took hold, primarily from Police Departments hiring untold numbers of returning Gulf War & GWOT Veterans, those Vets pushed to expand their departments use of the 1033 program so they could have access to most of the same gear they were already used to using.
That’s how we got to where we are in 2025. Each individual step makes sense but the outcome of those cumulative decisions is increasingly problematic.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTubeEnglish0·2 months agoWhy does it have to be one or the other? I both read books and watch YT videos nearly every day.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Self-hosting your own media considered harmful - I just received my second community guidelines violation for my video demonstrating the use of LibreELEC on a Raspberry Pi 5, for 4K video playbackEnglish0·4 months agoThis kind of crap is driving popular creators, like Geerling, to move to other places. YT / Alphabet has lost the plot.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's WhyEnglish0·5 months ago$300? A TPS sensor replacement should cost like $75 including the sensor itself.
Thank you for this. I know some people won’t appreciate it but not every community needs to be a full time political outlet.
Buelldozer@lemmy.todayto Technology@lemmy.world•Microsoft retires WordPad after 28 years — app no longer available as of Windows 11 24H2English0·1 year agoI don’t want to install “word webview” on a server in order to look at a large log file or peruse some XML.
Here in the United States a person can already build new or convert existing gasoline vehicles to be “unconnected” and in every way except possibly the battery management doing it with an EV would actually be easier.
It does cost money and take some time but probably less of both than you may think.