Google is still the one that provides the hardware/security updates to my knowledge. They could choose to cut that off based on the “legitimacy” of your OS or other arbitrary reasoning. It wouldn’t brick the phone but it would lose all future support, making GOS much less compelling.
Russiaboos think that no amount of bodies or western equipment is actually hurting Russia, only delaying the inevitable complete capitulation. He’s happy he gets to, in his eyes, send a Ukrainian to die pointlessly.
It seems to be a concern to the people behind GOS, enough that they are looking for an OEM to make phones to their specs, but I haven’t heard anything to the effect of “Google will stop all support or brick devices that aren’t verified.” Maybe existing GOS Pixels will be fine, maybe they’re sandbagging, I don’t know. It’ll definitely suck for me with a Pixel 9 Pro XL that I expected to keep into the 2030s if that happens.
They won’t be ambassadors by then, they will either agree to become quasi-military emissaries to negotiate concessions and surrenders to our dominion, or they will be retired or just killed.
Those Colombian guerillas have been hiding in the jungle for decades. When the main body of FARC surrendered in 2017, many of them had never seen a smartphone before. They’ve been living the asymmetric warfare life since god knows when, they would prove extremely difficult to root out.
The humble sawzall:
Some lies are not meant to deceive, they are meant to insult you and shove your nose in the dirt to let you know who’s in charge. He’s telling you that in the end, they won, and that the truth doesn’t matter anymore.
The people posting this want a West that is paralyzed by corruption, ineptitude, apathy, and guilt (demoralization), while China slowly takes the reigns as the world superpower for better or worse, probably worse. They are not interested in constructive thought or action from us because they are probably not Americans nor do they want a reformed US. They want you to be apathetic while you watch your home collapse around you, because we were evil anyway and we deserve it.
It’s my opinion that every Russian ambassador, consul, and staffer thereof is most likely a spy of one variety or another, doing harm to their host countries. They seem incapable of good faith diplomatic relations.
She lived in exile because she shot a New Jersey state trooper dead during a traffic stop, not because she was an “activist.”
American conservatism has an ideological bromance with Russia.