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The downloads list suddenly won’t load anymore. I was going to get the last version before they added the notice to get pro.

Give it time. You get used to it. Eventually, you will probably type more accurately than you did before. A qwerty or any full keyboard like that does not belong on a small screen. :-)

Most phone manufactures create their own version of Android. Usually they are pretty full of useless junk and a ton of UI changes. By saying “mostly Android” you’re urually saying “mostly [original] Android”.

Local storage can still be part of the cloud.

I dropped it for the Fediverse. I decided to use kbin after trying Lemmy for a bit.

I have always liked EFF’s Surveillance Self-Defense. Hopefully they are keeping them current.

Training you to be phished.

That sounds like a smart contract. Ethereum has them. I don’t know enough to say it could be recurring. It may be worth looking in to.

Gitchi miigwech sa! Nizhigajibii’.

This is not new or specific to online retailers. I worked in retail for almost a decade before gettinng out.

On most products that don’t have strict pricing guidelines from the manufacturer, prices can very wildly. Normal pricing would be a marked down price. When big sale would come, the tag price would go from the Minimum Advertised Price (MAP) up to Manufacturer Suggested Retail Price (MSRP). Those prices are set by the manufacturer. The price printed on tags is MSRP. It is full price and is usually marked up quite a lot. With high end brands, MSRP is usually a lot higher than what MAP is. With brands like The Northface it can be $100 or more.

When a retailer runs a “big sale” they often put everything back up to full MSRP then mark it back down whatever percentage off they are offering.

Sometimes I would wait for a product to go on sale so I could get my employee discount plus sale price. There were many times when a huge sale plus my discount ended up being the same price or more than what the every day price was.

What is with all these beans posts? /s

You mean, like meow meow beans?

These social media giants seem to be self destructing themselves on purpose.

So… is counterfeiting money generally considered illegal?

Ubuntu is Debian based… I think you can still call it that. So if you don’t like Ubuntu, try Debian. Its more stable/reliable.