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  • I have no problem with remakes as long as they aren’t just trying to grab some cash from you without any work.

    I’ve really enjoyed the Final Fantasy VII remakes or the Planet of the Apes remakes. Yes they aren’t perfect, but it feels like some passion was put into these projects.

    As long as we aren’t just getting remakes, I have nothing against it. And sometimes remakes even have more originality than another generic game.








  • Because your friend would just be doing it out of curiosity, not as part of an investigation.

    I’m not saying that anyone not unlocking their phone has done something illegal, but just that some people who are refusing to give something willingly to the police is making them waste precious time which could be used to catch up with the bad guy.

    Again I can only talk about my country and maybe in the US cops are awful, I don’t know. But I know that family of victims would love people to just cooperate with the police and not make them waste time…



  • I agree with you, you can’t know for sure that you’re with a good or bad cop.

    But you also have to comply with laws if you don’t want to get in trouble.

    I can only answer for my country and I can tell you that here you’re gonna waste way less time if you show what’s in your phone and we can see that you’re innocent.

    The time not wasted there might also be used to catch the person who’s really guilty.

    I’ll just give you an example even if it’s not reated to unlocking phones: A black BMW 335i is filmed hitting a pedestrian and the plate number finishes with a 5. We’re gonna need to have a look at every BMW within these parameters. If you prevent the police from checking your car by hiding it, a guilty guy might have more time to hide his car and a crime is gonna go unpunished, leaving a victim with no one to pay for his injuries.

    Of course, that reality might be different elsewhere. It’s just that I have noticed that on Lemmy cops are only seen as bad guys when, in my case, I spend a lot of time helping people.


  • I’m a cop and I can tell you that, at least in my country, you’d have no reason to not unlock your phone if you haven’t done anything.

    I can understand that in some countries cops can be seen as criminals (and are behaving like criminals), but I don’t think a generality should be made. Just like a generality shouldn’t be made about people from an origin all doing the same bad thing.

    Also don’t take advices from what you see on Lemmy as every user comes from a different country with different laws.

    In my country, we can take your phone but we aren’t allowed to unlock it without your consent or without a prosecutor saying so.