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Google Maps renames “Lake Ontario” to “Lake America” even faster than US government (arstechnica.com)
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Google rolled out the Lake America change on Saturday, while the official US government maps are still waiting.

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[–] 22 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Today is GrapheneOS day for me.

And if they ever try to take that away, I'll get a fucking dumb flip phone and that'll be that.

Open source is critical to our future.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    Mine arrived today. Ironic.

    Also ironic that I had to buy a pixel, but i needed a new phone so I wanted something that gos and other distros could run on

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Oh don't apologize for buying their subsidized data collection devices and then completely disabling the reason they subsidize the devices 😂

    It's a kick in the nuts to Google every time GrapheneOS is installed.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago* (2 children)

    Single source hardware is a security liability. If Google does something to the hardware or firmware, the GrapheneOS project would be screwed. Google has already hobbled AOSP.

    We cannot overly depend on Google's or any one company's good will.

    I think GrapheneOS should think about gradually steering the project toward a basket of hardware companies. Shifting to Motorola is necessary in the near term, but the whole situation with Google's behavior needs to be a wake up call.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I'm excited to see what they do with Motorola as it would be nice to pick up something newer and have my current Graphene device for backup/travel in case prices ever go wild like they seemingly have for every other piece of tech. Honestly, there's not much reason not to run Graphene because, privacy aside, the user experience is significantly deslopified and much better than stock.

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