As a long time poor person myself, please don’t give this sort advice. It doesn’t help. When your poor, getting something like OPs competition win can make life feel not so glum. What you’re saying is to sell happiness for slightly more security that will only last so long. Once the extra runs out, you’re back where you were with zero ability to buy that ‘luxury’ back. Having something nice when your poor can make a big difference to mental health.

Also please don’t assume that poor people don’t know how to budget and that they need unsolicited financial advice from strangers who don’t have any idea what their day to day circumstances and finances are.

So sweet! Please tighten that collar though! Needs to be snug enough that you can fit 2 fingers underneath it.

That’s some Quality vampire scrunge

My spouse is a tech and tells me he has all the patience for stupidity because he gets paid for it. Once upon a time, I was going to go into IT but turns out that no amount of money was worth it for me because my tolerance for stupidity and willful ignorance is next to zero.

TBF, I still smile and tell family members it’s all good, no problem to fix and then vent my inward seething later on to my spouse 😅

Drives me nuts computer illiterate family members praising me for fixing the most basic, basic shit for them. They think its because I have lots of experience. But no, its because I learned the absolute basics of computer literacy and the experience I now have is grounded in that. I don’t want praise for “working magic”, I want people to fucking spend a small amount of their time learning the most BASIC of IT skills so I don’t have to waste my time fixing shit you should know.

Sorry, my frustration might be showing just a little.

The problem is its closed source and often difficult for the average user to tell what is going out. All you can do is Do Not Trust.

And not many consider the environmental impact of this either. Sure storage might be cheap (not in my country but I digress) but more space still requires more storage and across thousands of computers and then millions of computers that’s not an insignificant increase. We should be increasing technological efficiency not what were doing at the moment which seems to be just throwing more power and resources at the problems.

Boop

We make jokes that he’s scared of his brother Thor 😹

One of our cats is called Loki. He’s scared of thunder.

Drip. Don’t give companies menstrual data at all ☺️

Obtainium. Aurora Store. Accrescent. Sideloading.

I’m typing this via GrapheneOS and I don’t at all feel like I’m living 10 years in the past lol.

Even if I was, at least the internet would be a less shitty place than it is now, there would be almost no LLM/AI crap, I wouldn’t constantly have to be as vigilant against big corps datamining my privacy as much as I am now… Actually, 2015 was a pretty decent time compared to now. Got a time machine?

My main point is

Android also runs Google play services

is incorrect as a general statement about Android. I used GrapheneOS as an example but there are plenty of other Android ROMs that also don’t come with Google Play Services or any Google at all.

GrapheneOS

I know this is an older thread but I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. I am long haired and always move my hair out of the way bending over and whatnot. I love long hair but I don’t like it getting in my eyes or tickling my nose so it becomes habit to hold it out the way of my face.

This is very cool. I run a website for a charity and this had certainly made me reflect on how I could reduce its power consumption (even with it hosted on 100% renewable power servers)

Couple this with SLDL which can use Spotify URLs. I haven’t used it (yet) but was recommended to me for the same thing you’re wanting to do.

https://github.com/fiso64/slsk-batchdl

New Zealand still uses SMS predominantly.

I wish I could use Matrix on my phone without it eating my battery 🫤