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You can’t degoogle without using a ROM that degoogles. Google has built itself into the Android operating system by default and replacing it is non-trivial, like using a ROM with microG.

As another commenter mentioned, though, you can partially degoogle in other ways.

Finally someone is standing up to the woke mob. Thank you, WB conglomerate! You are the true underdog.

That’s the kind of threat a monopoly makes

This article is also a form of advertisement and self-promotion, though it does have a point about the proliferation of absolute garbage “review” and “ranking” pages you get whenever you try to figure out which doodad to chuck money at.

The number being somewhere on your computer isn’t something I’d worry about. The real risk is from a liberal autocomplete that might throw it into website forms where you don’t want it to be, including hidden ones. Maybe there are protections in place since I last let Firefox save anything like this, but it used to try pasting address and CC info whenever it could.

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Thank you for your service in banning the shit out of this pedo

Apple makes it basically impossible to do proper testing for compatibility without buying a Mac or paying someone else that has a Mac to run your tests. Their entire app infrastructure is like this.

If you have a pixel I recommend graphene and if not I recommend calyx. Graphene has some lower-level security primitives and their sandboxing between profiles is very good. I recommend not installing Google Play Services on your main profile (ideally in none but you might not have that luxury).

Security and privacy require diving into the topic, though. You can still easily do non-secure, non-anonymous things in either case. Sometimes people even seem to do riskier things when they think their privacy tools are there, and end up being less private and secure as a result of not knowing how the threats work.

You can burn em with your burner of course. I haven’t burned discs in so long that I can’t remember what software I used to use, but there should still be open source, free software that can do exactly that.

If long-term, secure storage is your goal I’d go with redundant, error-correcting digital storage with off-site encrypted backups (don’t forget the password!). A proper system like that will survive a tornado (because it’s backed up off-site). A home-built RAIDZ2 NAS with one of many off-site backups will work very well. If you don’t want to figure out how to build that system, you can also just buy a NAS with a similar level of functionality (I do still recommend RAIDZ2 with at least 6 disks, though).

Blu-rays will eventually degrade, either from scratches or a slow phenomenon where they get little holes in the foil. Even if you keep making copies, you’ll run into this problem. Of course, data corruption can also occur for files on a computer, but that’s why you use a strategy that keeps ~3 copies of each file around (basically what RAIDZ2 accomplishes) so that errors can be auto-corrected.

There are other benefits to a NAS as well. You can store your own backups of your other devices there as well and have them backed up off-site. You also have the option to share your blu-ray rips over your home network, basically running your own local streaming service.

If you want to share the love, so to speak, the bandwidth of a USB hard drive is actually pretty great.

100%!

Fun fact: suburbs and related approaches to the design of land use are structured around increasing the distance between homes and services. The idea is to isolate the suburbanites (at the time, white people) from everyone else so that their material conditions could become disconnected and racism catered to. Red lining and all that.

So a big part of the reason things are so far away is so that capitalism could continue using racist policies to get what it wanted. And now we have to buy 2-3 weeks of food at a time even if we don't live in suburbs, as our infrastructure is built around the expectations of the surrounding suburbs.

Anyways it's not your fault you've gotta stock up so I don't blame ya! We've all gotta deal with structures in our society that we had no control over.

When grocery stores are close (walkable) it becomes super convenient to just go there every few days instead of managing a stockpile of food. Works way better for small spaces and for eating fresh foods. Don't knock it til you try it!

Critical support for lemmy.world admins alienating their users by managing to be more fascist than Reddit admins.

It will lose because 78% isn't organized and willing to force change down the throats of those with power.

By the time they were, we could do the necessary overthrow of capitalism first because it is the capitalists that will prevent a car-free Manhattan.

But I'm also saying that you can try. When you do, remember who the enemy is and see who prevents you - and who they align with!

Well yeah we should ideally abolish cars for all but the most necessary uses - rural living, etc. But that is something I think falls squarely in the "what we can do after overthrowing capitalism" vision bucket. Folks can grasp that even things more realizable under capitalism are simple and can be fought for. Those fights will also usually fail but in doing so can teach valuable lessons about the nature of bourgeois electoralism.

Yes absolutely. Also the problems of right on red are solved by bettee designs of the streets themselves. Dedicated, separate bicycle lanes. Curb bulbs. Raised pedestrian crossings. Stop lines farther back from the intersection.

Cult behavior

Oh I see. Not sure what they mean by "pay once", that was what made me think it was about buying software.

Brave has been hyped as a privacy browser despite having several major privacy failures baked into it repeatedly. It's 100% hype. You get the same level of privacy on paper by installing Chromium with an ad blocker and tweaking a couple settings. Firefox has better privacy defaults and is better with an ad blocker installed. Chromium has a slight edge on security (FF needs to really push tab isolation harder) but if privacy is your main concern I would always recommend FF.

Money is involved because people want to make a living off of their project. Also, every major browser has been backed with huge amounts of funding because supporting a browser is very difficult.

That said, that doesn't mean every browser project is good, either. Just that it's reasonable to see why people would want to get income from their work.

PS the Brave CEO sucks so I'm not sympathizing with him here.