Changed two phone batteries recently. One took a few seconds. The other one with adhesives took an hour of labor just to remove and reapply the adhesive, and I still need to redo it. They made it as shitty as possible to repair. Fuck Samsung.
Big defense companies have been stealing money from taxpayers for decades. Good thing is that at least some people get employment. It’s getting worse.
Can we start slowly boycotting businesses that leverage Google resources? Like, maybe start with one industry, and then hit them hard. “Like hey Steam, my domain filter shows all the Google queries I get from your site. Knock it off or we’ll use the competitor!”
Seriously, the Google queries from using Steam are pissing me off for real.
It can’t be done in the US. I already tried but they need credit card info and will not accept prepaid gift card.
I knew this domme that was German and her sub was Jewish. They got off on that, so…
It’s not unheard of. As long as there is informed consent I guess.
Zenni now has a lens you can order with their glasses. They do both prescription and non prescription.
TLDR; know your job, get off big tech, vote with your attention/data/purchases, use privacy phone and carriers, stop buying shit from assholes, learn how to be alone, save tiny amount from paycheck and don’t touch
Learn your job better than anyone else. Good ole boys club, affirmative action, and nepotism can’t make up for incompetence. I’ve overcompensated for being from a poor family my whole tech career by going above and beyond and learning more and more skills. After 20 years, people listen to me and I have an insane amout of leverage in my workplace.
No google, gmail (almost 100%off), Amazon Prime, reddit, Facebook, Instagram, youtube, or Spotify. I am using several emails in Europe. Amazon and Facebook were easy to remove. Reddit was replaced with Lemmy. I also use Mastadon and Pixelfed. Make a personal threat model first so you don’t go nuts implementing countermeasures. Get NextDNS on your phone and filter trackers if tracking is an issue for you. Good luck on this long journey.
Instead of Firefox, I use Libre and I started using Tor browser and FOSS browser for Android, and with my new phone a native fork of Bromite that was preinstalled.
Instead of my Samsung phone, I bought a Fairphone 6 with e/OS already installed and am using Murena as my carrier. This just became available in the US. I’m transitioning to it all now. So far customer service is slow through email, but they responded over night and no issues with coverage.
I started voting with my attention, but also with my wallet. No Target. No Ticketmaster. Absolutely no Coors ever! There are a few things I refuse to buy.
Also, I have a bit of each paycheck go into an emergency account of a bank that does not exist in my state. If I have to withdraw, I either need to cross state lines or find a local co-op participant bank. After several years, I have not only a huge emergency fund but also 6 months of living expenses that I transferred to a money market account when the emergency account got too high. I have made withdrawals for auto repairs and to hospitalize my pet.
I don’t buy too many things. Mostly just clothes that are durable and video games. Saving money means you can tell your boss to kiss your ass if you need to. Your vote might not count as much, but your wallet, data, and attention can be used to vote every day.
Also just be by yourself. Stop going out every chance. Do your own thing. There are worse thing than being alone. Be very careful if you date. Watch for red flags like love bombing and people who constantly speak negatively about your friends / family.
You don’t need all this stuff!
That I was able to retaliate against the billionaire class that made my people suffer. Can I throw rubbish at them while their spirits are chained in the bad place?
That is extremely interesting. I did not know the formal system could be put in mathematical terms. Ill check into that.
Well, if Switzerland did not vote to pass the crappy laws they proposed, then there are lots of Swiss options that are good. Not sure what the current status is. Last I heard, Proton considered moving servers because they wanted to make it such a nightmare.
Did the Swiss laws go to hell already?
I agree somehwat. If people did not hate unusual or different behaviors and treat others poorly as a result, then kids without a diagnosis would not have a problem. But teachers and parents frequently get super frustrated with ADHD kids, and I have never recovered from how it made me feel as a kid, even decades later.
Why does it need to be considered “formal” by some arbitrary standard to be both a fallacy and related to logic.
Holy shit. That’s awesome.
They need to cover Florida in these. It would solve a lot of society’s problems.
I stopped using Spotify last year, and recently dug my old ipod out of the drawer. Listening to music without an Internet connection and all the spyware is so liberating. If you have an ipod or other old mp3 player, try it out again!
If we ban it, the gov will use it anyway. I can’t believe people are still bringing kids in to this world. We are all severely fucked. Can you imagine how bad everyone’s anxiety will be with this shit everywhere? Maybe everyone will just ignore it like they do every time they use google or Facebook.
Is this data bubble ever going to fuckung pop? So tired of this shit? I don’t want to live the rest of life like this. Who tf wants to have kids in this nightmare?
US ends consumer protections to allow shitty billionaires to screw everyone. FTFY.
Already getting there. It’s hard.