They don’t sell a lot of video games

Wait, y’all buy them?

[AwkwardMonkey.jpg] 👀

Lol I sometimes microwave something, then FORGET TO EAT IT 😭

(I have not ever been diagnosed with ADD/ADHD)

Lol, its always been a scam.

They just pocket most of the money using legal loopholes.

I meant “transmit from your starlink antenna”, so my brain just chose the word “upload” because my brain is lazy… 😅

So… to clarify: sending a request for “wikipedia.org” is still gonna transmit, which means they will find you, even if you aren’t “uploading”

nazi Germany make listening to Allied radio illegal.

Same thing with this. They’ll criminialize it, and arrest anyone with Starlink equipment.

(Also much easier to find you, since they can detect your signals when you upload, unlike listening to radio where there’s no EM emission from the receiver)

Just Lie.

Which ever dumbass that said “honesty is the best policy” is a fucking liar.

I read enough news articles to know this, if you want to preserve your freedom (that is, the very little remaining freedom that you still have under this ultra-capitalistic world), you have to lie, otherwise you will end up in a place wose than prison.

So I read the comments, and it seems like you don’t really want to switch banks, and the web interface to “too barebone”.

My only suggestion is:

Download Shelter - You can create a separate “work profile” that separates from you normal apps. Create a new google account within the work profile just for this purpose, and intall the app in the work profile. Apps inside the work profile can’t see anything on your normal profile.

Handheld Radios, some are those “Walkie-Talkies” (I hate that term btw), others are VHF/UHF Ham Radios, or GMRS/FRS, MURS, or Meshtastic (I don’t even know how those meshtastic things work). AFIAK, phones cannot fit those antennas in such a thin build, so they won’t be replaced for a long time, possibly forever. I mean, there is no way to cram such antenna in there. There might be some phones that are also handheld radios, but those are probably so niche, that I’ve never heard of any such thing.

Very useful in like a natural disaster and the cell towers are down. (Or just something like war where the commucation infrastructure is just shut down by the destruction).

Idk about other countries, but in the USA, those walmart/target walkie talkies do not need any license, because they are just FRS radios that use FRS frequencies. AFIAK MURS and Meshtastic also is license free. Ham and GMRS will probably require licenses in many jurisdictions. Some GMRS and FRS frequencies overlap, but GMRS can (legally) use more power, and can swap antennas, which FRS radios cannot (not legally).

Baofeng radios are cheap and its only like $50 or so for a pack of two. They are supposed to be either Ham or GMRS versions, but apparantly I have those “Ham Radios” that can do both which is gonna make the FCC sad 👀

If you have a repeater in your area that your signal can reach, you can talk a long distance throughout your neighborhood.

Both Ham and GMRS require a license in the USA, but GMRS license does not require a test, which Ham license do. GMRS license is literally just a payment for a paper.

Even if you use a radio without a license, most of the time, nothing will happen. The FCC (at least, before 2025) wont care if you talk to your friends using radio without a license. And FCC rules don’t apply during an emergency.

(I mostly learned these things via looking around the internet in the past few months because I was interested in the topic of “off grid” communications. I don’t have any licenses yet 😅)

They essentially fragmented the PC market as now I can’t access all of my games in a single location.

Devil’s Advocate: That’s just called competition. Apple could also claim that Google “fragmented” the smartphone market into two different OS.

Line going right up my nose

6a has like 2 years of support left

$200 / 2 Years = $100 per year

8a is $500, theres more than 6 years of support left

$500 / 6 Years = $83.33 per year

Math doesn’t work out lol. Besides, where do you even get one for $200 lol, unlocked ones are $299

Oh wow, I’m getting more jealous 😅

I’m still hanging on my Samsung A-series phone because of the microsd card slot (and also don’t feel like spending $500 for a phone at the moment)

Related:

Download Wasted (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lucky.wasted/) - You can set your phone to auto-wipe after X amount of time without being unlocked, and also various other triggers for wipe, like creating a fake “Signal” or “Telegram” icons on your homescreen that would trigger a wipe if tapped, or a fake “Airplane mode” tile that would trigger a wipe. Very useful stuff. (Might wanna learn the laws in your jurisdiction tho, could get you in trouble.

There’s also Duress (https://f-droid.org/en/packages/me.lucky.duress/) which doesn’t work on my Samsung, but it worked on a Motorola that I once has. It sets up either a fake pin (aka: duress pin), and the duress pin can also be to just enter X characters, where X is at least 2 chracters more than your real password (example: if your pin is “2025”, all you have to say is any string of 6 characters or more like “123456” and the wipe will happen, very useful since you probably won’t remember a specific duress pin under stress)

This: https://f-droid.org/packages/net.typeblog.shelter/

Create a “Work Profile” and apps inside can’t see the stuff on your main profile.

But as someone said, get a separate device for maximum privacy protections (and its better to separate work from life).

If you are in the US, you can get a cheap android phone for like $50 (or even less) from like walmart/target tyle of stores. They are locked, but they don’t need a plan to use. (Avoid “Verizon” ones, they require you to buy a plan for the phone to be usable, its MVNOs branded ones should be fine tho) You can just connect to wifi (or share data via hotspot from your main phone).

As for outside the US, they probably don’t have phones this cheap, because “locked phones” aren’t a thing, but perhaps use an old phone in the drawer or get a very cheap used phone?

“Type in your email so ICE can come straight to your door”

How?

To be fair, you shouldn’t call everyone a nazi.

My grandparents ran away from the Japanese soldiers during the Japanese Invasion of China. Most of their village doesn’t consider them “collaborators” or “汉奸” (Han-Traitor). They did what they had to to survive. Fleeing from conflict is not the same as collaboration. Those who fled from the Taliban shouldn’t be labeled as “Islamic Extremists”. Ukranians who fled the draft shouldn’t be labeled as “Russian Sympathizers”.

But that’s only for individuals, civillians, not corporations or politicians. Google definitely has no excuses. But the point I’m trying to make is: unless someone actually help the fascists, they shouldn’t be labeled as “nazis”. It’s not morally wrong to give in to human survival instincts and run away from conflict. If Anne Frank successfully fled nazi Germany, you wouldn’t call her a “nazi”, right?

Divided States of America

because that’s what it really is

Is using alternative maps even worth it if you have google’s Android and location has to go through google play services anyways?

I mean, Rethink DNS was working, then it broke. 😓

I mean, I switched to a different wireguard config and it seems to work, I’ll see if it breaks in a few days…