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> for many of the same reasons you don’t carpet a bathroom

For some reason this is a commonplace in the UK.

Yeah....

Oh, I checked. I think you misread my comment.

"both sides" - is Ruzzia primarily attacking military targets or civilians, cam you recall?

We could also check how many children have been kidnapped by the both sides.

Russians terrorists are already primarily targeting schools, shelters, residential buildings, energy infrastructure, etc.

One of the first acts of was a destruction of the dam.

"It's a mistake to blindly adopt tit for tat" - what are they going to do, bomb some datacentres or power plants (again)?

I hope Ukraine is going to bring a major inconvenience to Russia before this winter. Otherwise kacaps are going to continue supporting this outrageous aggression.

LOL, same. Usually I watch with a great, much deserved attention, but sometimes I need to work on something so I replay videos, and his voice, with such a fantastic cadence and soothing registry, talking about things I deeply enjoy and appreciate, makes work easier and better.

As a someone living with a person suffering from shoulder issues, im offering no advice, best wishes and a hug. Hope you'll be good soon.

Phew, thankfully we're safe buying a big brand device: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/lg-to-ban-residential-pr...

:)

I have a few years old account. One day they just blocked be out and rudely demanded a phone number.

At the time I had TOTP based 2FA since forever.

Fine, I got myself a burner number (not sharing a real number with creeps and bullies), account tot unblocked. I kept using it.

A week later I deleted a phone number form my account (marked as optional after all), and the account got immediately, immediately blocked, after I saved the changes.

F** Discord and its ilk.

£200-ish for Pixel 8, 4 more years of support.

No, it's much more. Google gates some of the features.

Stock Android (AOSP) misses stuff like Call Screen, Hold for Me, Direct My Call, Digital Wellbeing,

If it was the same the hostility like this wouldn't matter that much: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-not-killing-aosp-356...

Oh, Xperia.

Wonderful hardware but f*k Sony with the update policy.

My last Xperia was I Mk 2. Nominally flagship. Great hardware, great spec, I loved the form factor.

It got one major Android update and total of 18 months of security updates since the release.

Like, WTH?

No more Sony for me.

Refurbished Pixel 7 pro (EOL next year) or Pixel 8 (EOL 2030) is £200-240 here.

> What is the difference

Except the CQ you only transmit for the specific recipient.

I believe broadcasting in one way only (there's no conversation part).

No, you're maliciously extending my words about some vendors to all vendors.

In the comment about issues with software and hardware, that somehow is being painted as GrapheneOS fault, I mentioned (among other things) hardware hostile to non-stock OS.

I didn't say it's Fairphone, I didn't name them.

You brought them up, so I addressed that, explained why I don't consider Nothing hostile but just vulnerable by default and inadequate. I even provided an example of the vendor I actually consider hostile (Samsung).

So if you understood quite well, you're trolling now and not discussing in the good faith.

The alternative is you didn't understand and thought I consider ALL vendors as hostile, which is putting claims in my mouth, which would be fine if you asked, but you keep discussing with strawman.

So please go bother someone else; this is the second time you're doing that and I wasted enough time on that.

You're not engaging with my words but you're instead twisting them. I'll stop wasting my time on you.

Fairphone?

Delayed patches (they don't keep up with AOSP), missing secure element (makes disk encryption key cracking trivial in comparison).

Fairphone 6/6+ (the latest), is based on..... It's pretty hard to find the Android version it's based on... Got it. They ship phones based on Android 16 half of the year after the release of 17 (9 since public beta).

Many security patches are NOT backported to 16, which makes Fairphone insecure by design.

They allow relocking the bootloader, which is nice, If they also support custom AVB keys, I'd say this is a fine example of the example of the vendor that is not hostile, just not good enough.

I wouldn't say they're hostile - Samsung is hostile for example.

So, what's your angle here? Do you want me to go through every vendor you bring up or what?

And to make things worse, genders differ between languages, say, German, Portuguese, or Slavic languages :)

If the bootloader cannot be unlocked, relocked, or doesn't provide timely updates to firmware/hardware, it's hostile.

The rest is not (might be lazy, insecure or just silly but not hostile)

It's surprising some vendors still don't support unlocking and/or relocking.

So you're saying that being unable to prove the provenance of the image (whether it's original or not), becoming immediately exposed to downgrade attack, to someone injecting malware to /sys and you being unable to detect it.... That's not a big deal?

:)

Well, go for it, fork and "provide support" to the hardware hostile to non-stock OS, be a hero :)

OK, I'm confused, explain how they can deliver comparable security on a hardware that does not offer the same capabilities, from a vendor who doesn't provide patches.

You say they can. How?

If the hardware security is on par with iPhone / pixel 8+, then sure.

Otherwise there's no need for NSA backdoors (as Cellebrite matrix shows) :)

Because it's much worse (for me).

However at this point, as a GrapheneOS user if I couldn't use it for any reason I'll go to iOS (even though I used it for a couple of years and I've been fed up).

They can't due to the shortcomings of the hardware (why develop a hardened os to the grossly insecure hardware) or the vendor (no/slow updates, etc).

Anyone is free to fork, add the desired hardware support and flash.

(that's aside of some Moto flagships in 2027)

So who's the better source then? Israeli military intelligence? Kremlin?

> Do you hear yourself? Have you ever in your life met someone this sadistic? It was definitely a mistake.

Unfortunately there's a very large, compelling body of evidence of the US military routinely killing civilians with double tap.

Intentionally.

This is not a negligence, this is a strategy because they get off scot free.

- https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=...

- https://www.culawreview.org/journal/double-standards-in-inte...

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/substantial-evidenc...

- https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2013-08-01/bur...

- https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/12/2/trumps-boat-bombing...

- https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-24557333

- https://lab.imedd.org/en/double-tap-the-tactic-that-is-consi...

Routine. They routinely exterminate civilians with this kind of attacks.

Where have you lived for the last 10 years?

Putler invested a lot in that. Cheap price for the impact we still see.

Remember International Criminal Court sanctioned for investigating Israeli and American role in the crimes being committed on the Palestinian territory?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cnvnl0elz47o

On top of more than 10 already.

Or sanctioned Francesca Albanese, a UN Special Rapporteur, for her work related to human rights abuses in the Palestine.

She can't have bank account (or other financial product), own a property or work in many sectors in countries holding meaningful bilateral relationships with the USA.

So what services do you have in mind? :)

Your home can survive multiple drone strikes? Wow :)

Given the opinions you I read in this thread, we'd be more likely to meet across the front lines.

Respectfully.

"Threats" as a comment to "let respond with sabotage to multiple sabotage acts conducted by the country engaging in war crimes" shows the side you're on very well.

One side is primarily targeting civilians and infrastructure, also committing acts of war crimes, other is targeting exclusively infrastructure used by the military.

Yeah, yeah, I know you'd love to paint your comrades as the poor military attacked from the all sides, but we all know had they not invade Crimea and then start all-out war against civilian targets, they'd live peacefully today.

I hope western countries will respond in kind with the mass sabotage acts: disrupting the transportation (roads and railroads are used by the military, per your own classification), pipelines and perhaps more.