Refurbished Refurbisher

Can’t wait to simultaneously laugh my ass off and be sad at the same time while watching this.

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The apps still have to be approved by Apple, and Apple still gets a cut. It’s not actual sideloading, and it’s all done through Apple-approved third party app stores.

You can’t just download an IPA file and install it.

When basically all dating apps are owned by the same company (Match Group), you get enshittification of all of them.

Their goal is to get repeat customers, which is the polar opposite of what people actually want from these types of apps.

Anything chewy or gummy, like caramels or gummy rings. Whoppers also slap.

Also crack

Don’t know if a VN counts as a book, but Song of Saya

Or better yet, that, plus guaranteed housing, food, and utilities (including, but not limited to, water, waste disposal, sewage, electricity, internet, and anything else that might be considered necessary in the future), and for a transitional period, worker ownership over the corporations that they work for (basically forcing companies to be worker-owned co-ops), so business decisions aren’t exclusively decided by short term profitability, and so that people who decide to work will be given an incentive to keep working there, even after automation fully takes over jobs. Also on top of that, citizen-ownership over natural resources, kind of like how Alaskan citizens own the oil in Alaska.

And on top of that, change the voting system to a ranked choice one, such as STAR, and ban all private money from elections, having publicly funded elections instead. Also regulate promoting electoral candidates to two weeks before an election, that way people aren’t constantly exhausted by every elections. Some countries already do this.

Does Richard Wolff count? He’s the one who gave me hope when it comes to politics.

According to this projection, it’s bigger than Africa

Establish world peace and universal economic stability

Hopefully this means Qualcomm is going to support mainline Linux instead of just supporting their downstream fork.

Probably, but also HDMI can carry ethernet as well.

Fair point

Even worse, Reddit itself has been getting infected with corporate AI-generated “recommendations”

Pretty sure EULAs are unenforcable in the US since nobody can reasonably be expected to read every single one of them for every one that they agree to.

If you want to switch specifically for free software, make sure that the phone you’re buying is bootloader-unlockable. The Pixel phones (not from a carrier, but unlocked) are good options.

If not, you will simply be locked into Google’s ecosystem (along with whatever OEM, such as Samsung’s), which isn’t much better than Apple’s.

As for ROMs, I’d recommend either GrapheneOS or DivestOS. Both are free of all Google services by default, and are as FOSS as Android allows for in the modern age.

To deregister iMessage, visit this site: https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

In the future, I’d look into Linux phones, but as of right now, they are not usable for daily driving IMO. You can also test Linux mobile on most modern Android phones using Halium with a distro like Droidian.

Also check out privacyguides.org for alternatives to proprietary apps/services.