I read it and I think I understand why people are using it, but just to clarify your Google play example: you still can’t use it without being signed into Google account, right? Is your concern what the app does while it’s not running? Because it feels like they’ll still collect the same amount of info once your sign in to install the apps.

Do you you try to use F-droid for most things?

Does anything related to money work on GOS? Bank apps, check deposits, credit card apps, nfc payments? Any other apps/features disabled by Google?

Seems like a huge sacrifice for perceived privacy improvement.

How is this significantly different from using vanilla Android without signing into any Google accounts?

It did not. I think you and OP are feeling this based on anecdotal/singular experience. I can get any old movie I want and am able to download all the latest stuff very quickly using two private trackers. Been on one of them for over a decade and the other one is TL and I hardly ever use TL. 90/10 ratio.

I use the same combo on my phone without any issues or ads. Why use a client on the phone?

Where is this?

You could also just stop using sites that don’t work in Firefox. Also https://webcompat.com/

Oh you meant credit line, not credit? They will quickly shrink that if not used. All the credit cards I haven’t used for a while reduced their credit lines wiltin a few years. Some by as much as 10x.

They don’t give it to you at 0% apr. Most credit cards have insane rates above 20%. They can and will come after just about everything you own.

I was lucky enough to get a free m1. That thing uses 10w or so when you remove the stupidity and install Linux on it. But even if you have to buy a Pi - it’ll pay for itself in a few months of not paying for streaming service.

Let’s go crazy and say $. 20/kWh. 10÷1000×8760×.2=$17.5/year. Not free, but pretty damn close.

That’s stupid feature on American cars only and they’ve been doing it forever.

I don’t think you understood the point I made.

I doubt there’s significant difference.

One of those speed limits is designed for a location where cars are unlikely to hit a human directly. Another location can have a child randomly run into the street. 70 and 170 are both death sentences.

Speed limiters in cars that don’t dynamically adjust to actual speed limits are useless and only exist to check the boxes for idiot voters disconnected from reality.

Ambulance could take 30 minutes to get to your house. But even if you imagine a magic ambulance that gets there in 5, that’s 5 extra minutes a person is potentially not breathing.

How would these work exactly? Where I live max speed on freeways is 70mph and 25mph on residential streets. You can definitely still kill someone using a car limited to maximum legal speed.

When russia inevitably starts collapsing from the inside and fracturing into smaller city states (or whatever local tsars decide to call their occupied territories) I’m sure that America and the rest of the advanced militaries will have boots on the ground immediately to secure the nukes.

Either way, not worried.

My Lemmy experience became infinitely better after blocking 2 instances where this nonsense is coming from.

I actually made a mistake of trying to have a conversation with them there when I just joined Lemmy. Never again lol.

In what way?

Are you seriously comparing tiny, colonial countries to russia? There’s nowhere we can really look in history.

Judging by the state of the rest of russia’s military, I’m not worrying too much about nukes when the rest of world has modern and tested defense systems.

What’s the worst thing that can happen? Russia is already a shithole where vast majority of honest and hardworking population lives like shit - they will continue to live like shit. The only ones that will get hurt from the inevitable infighting that starts are the oligarchs. Fuck 'em.

I feel like this would allow next tsar of russia to claim this was putin`s war, give back Ukrainian territory, maybe even promise some reparations they have no intentions to deliver, and continue leeching off natural resources.

Either way, immediate problem of these cunts killing Ukrainian children by bombing hospitals is solved.

This is not a typical extension and it cannot be removed. It doesn’t even show up in the list of installed extensions.