Speaking personally, it’s just as much about Windows getting worse as it is about Linux getting better.

Yes. A GrapheneOS device and a Commodore 64 are basically the same thing.

You have to disable Kill Switch

Alternatively:

• Install GrapheneOS
• Never concern yourself with invasive software again

I’ve never even seen Gemini on my phone.

Your evidence is already stored with the gov, regardless of the any age verification systems. And the gov provides your token. If you honestly don’t know, you should research instead of making assumptions.

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet

We can’t compete with a country that pays their workers $1/hr without doing the same.

There is no encryption involved. They just give you a token that verifies your age and you present the token to the site.

Beijing has the highest hourly minimum wage (RMB 26.4/US$3.7 per hour)

I don’t know what you’re arguing for either. It sounds like we agree it is unsustainable.

According to whom?

If it works the way they claim it is indeed very private.

GOS says everything is terribly insecure

Yes but after they win they have to raise prices…

Okay but why? No thank you.

All of them that I know of. Which corporations do you see running unsustainable business models until they fold completely? Take your time, I’ll wait.

The point is that they eventually change their tactics. In this case, they’ll have to eventually increase their prices.

Like all things in China, this is owned by the government, making it pointless.

It didn’t work for Walmart the same way it didn’t work for Amazon

Thus, not sustainable, as I said.

the Chinese are really good at low cost manufacturing

They’re not “good” at it, they just have no minimum wage and no semblance of annoying things like worker protections or unions to be concerned with.

I wasn’t trying to make any sort of argument why they should be doing that, only why they are.