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- Comment on Is Buying a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS Pre-Installed Dangerous? 5 days ago:
I moved from an iPhone to Graphene about a year ago. I miss the quality hardware that Apple makes, metal and glass feel nicer than plastic. The pictures the Pixel 8 Pro takes are crap compared to my old iPhone too. However… I bought the Pixel used to test the software primarily and will stick with Graphene for the forseable future. It runs great and instead of buying a better quality Pixel, I am waiting for what Motorola will offer next year.
Some advice regarding the switch. Apple will make it annoying to leave their ecosystem. I recommend to move gradually, get your Graphene set up and keep your iPhone as a daily driver until you’re confident everything works on Graphene. I did this for about a week. I moved my pictures off of iCloud with Proton Drive and for NFC payments I switched to a bank that supports it from their own App. (Although I also switched to using 95% cash, it’s good to have a backup on the phone.) Using a Mac or going to icloud.com will make exporting your contacts and calendar a lot easier than trying it on iOS.
Two profiles is my setup. The main without Google for Threema, Signal, OrganicMaps, Voyager for Lemmy and all the other dailies. The secondary profile has the GooglePlay services running for my two banks. I use OLauncher for a clean home screen and HeliBoard as a keyboard, neither of these two have network access.
Chat me if you have specific questions, I enjoy tinkering with this stuff and chatting about it :)
- Comment on Are there any payment aggregators (Like Paypal for instance) that prioritize user privacy? 5 days ago:
Please stop buying from Amazon
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 6 days ago:
Thanks for your condemnation. Thoughts and prayers it’ll all work out
- Comment on Two ICE agents in plain clothes punched and tried to handcuff an Australian man at Las Vegas Airport. When they saw they were being filmed, they quickly left. 6 days ago:
Do more to stop it.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 1 week ago:
Maybe I just mean stocks in general, not the stock market or exchange. But stocks without public trading and speculating are still around and a good thing that can support creating value.
I own some stock in my bank and a farm.
For the farm, the stocks are intended for the farmer to invest in equipment or whatever they need. I work 4x a year at that farm (either packing cheese or cleaning something) and I pay for my milk, cheese and yogurt. The stocks are a great way for the farmer to get some cash for investments without involving banks. We’re about 100 people who own stock and do the quarterly shifts, but the main value is created by the farmers, their animals and the land.
Regarding my bank, any stock I buy from them enables them to do stuff with 7x the amount of money I gave them. E.g. if I own 10k in stock, they can use it to finance a 70k loan for someone.
For both, I can vote on important topics and future projects. For me this ensures my bank only invests sustainably and the milk and cheese I consume come from a farm that is nearby, organic and treats its animals well.
- Comment on These corpos who feel entitled to Open Source code 1 week ago:
The stock market was once a great idea, provide a business some cash upfront so they can create value, get a cut of result.
Now it’s just about extracting value, capitalists are turning everything to shit.
- Comment on It's always the ones you expect 3 weeks ago:
The gays hate the gays. A sad old story that will take a few more generations to heal, if we’re not already turning back to a society that favours kids growing up to become adults with internalised homophobia.
This is why visibility and pride matter.
- Comment on Norwegians supporters in New York City 4 weeks ago:
I prefer the Australian’s chant about Doonie the Sex Offender
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 4 weeks ago:
It still works for so many places, all you need to do is pick up the phone and ask. Some have order forms on their websites too.
But beware, some of those App companies create URLs for businesses (without their knowledge or consent) to reroute your search back to their App.
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 5 weeks ago:
The Yes Men are nothing compared to the big Yes Machine he keeps pushing
- Comment on Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now 5 weeks ago:
This guy sounds like someone who has been told how smart he is a few too many times in elementary school.
- Comment on Electric cars are starting to take over the world 1 month ago:
That is usually the case here too. But sitting around, reading, having a beer are all fun things you can’t do when driving yourself
- Comment on Electric cars are starting to take over the world 1 month ago:
It really is, biggest luxury I could imagine
- Comment on Electric cars are starting to take over the world 1 month ago:
I don’t own a car because public transit is sufficient 90% of the time. I rent for the other 10% and always take an EV, they are so much fun to drive and the technology has improved significantly in the last 10 years. Great news!
- Comment on Astronomers seek global ban on space advertising 1 month ago:
We’re 43 people already, the remaining 95% will continue to buy it anyway because…
- It just tastes better
- It can’t be that bad
- It’s convenient
- I’ve always bought that
- I have nothing to hide
Pick as many as you like
- Comment on Rejecting Cookies 2 months ago:
UBlock handles them well if you enable the cookie notice list. If one slips through, I now accept all because cookies are erased as soon as I close my browser