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Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer
(www.androidauthority.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Jul 2025
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Basically, if you don't have a phone the cops can easily backdoor, you must be a criminal.
"What do you have to hide?" taken to it's logical conclusion.
... and if it's an obscenely expensive one.
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.
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.
Yup, install process takes a few minutes, it walks you through it on a pretty friendly web page.
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.
When someone says "rare operating system", the word "rare" describes "operating system".
Here is the statement again:
In your sentence, "rare" is used to describe "it", a pronoun, which refers to the action "to walk around with an actual tinfoil hat".
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.