Yes, 100% you’re right.

I don’t think “godless cop hater” was the insult he thought it was.

Tailscale with self hosted headscale

Male genital mutilation.

“incriminating” to be clear here, criticism of a political person should not cause you to be denied entry. That’s fucking insane. On the other hand, yes. Everything has to be encrypted, locked, and def have a dummy OS. I’m going to need to set some up.

Thanks for that!!! I’ll give this a shot.

Yes but, have you ever rooted a Xiaomi device. it’s VERY hard. not impossible, but very hard. Requires iirc a 28 day waiting period, and you can only do one per year. (I imagine they enforce by phone number) Here’s a guide I found with a quick google search, it requires running their super sketchy windows only utility, etc… etc… https://www.reddit.com/r/PocoPhones/comments/1bsb2ce/how_to_root_your_phone_whatever_your_xiaomi_phone/

And yes, everything you have read is true about how bad it is. Did you know by default every app is set to debuggable? it’s something the OS does, and no, you can’t turn it off from the apps perspective. The whole system is just not secure, by design.

Thanks for the rec. Ngl for something like sms though, maybe not maintained isn’t a problem. Heh as long as it doesn’t have any bugs, not like the protocol is changing

My… Guess is that it’s still another data point attaching your IP to you. I haven’t really dug into how true that would be, but there is def fingerprinting stuff that could be shared without location permission. I.e. just a web request gives them your phones ip. Now that might be your cellphone wan ip, That might be your home ip etc… still identifying info.

Imo this isn’t so much about tracking your literal location (though, that too) but also in tracking you across websites without permission.

That means you’re clear and don’t have any offending apps.

Had no idea Textra was on here. I guess back to stock graphene OS messenger.

done.

Sure sure. Hahah a fair point.

Yep. It’s def a trend of, take over and then price gouge everyone.

In a word, enshitification. I’m currently on a de-googling journey and it feels so good every service I cut.

Lol all good and fair points.

I just focused on premium because that’s what I had prior to cancelling. So totally just focused on what directly impacted me. I should have included both and called out the removal of ‘basic’ and forcing users to either pay more for standard or accept ads

Frankly, across the board it’s just standard enshitification.

I think my other thought is I don’t think you should have to be rich to be able to stream a higher bitrate. Sure maybe it costs more storage / bandwidth but I don’t think it should be something only rich people can afford.

I’ll turn this into a corporate selling point!

“Hey look, we decreased the price of premium by 17% over a 12 year period. (as compared to our standard plan)”

As kbal pointed out, the standard plan has increased 125% as well. So your original statement really doesn’t track with that.

Yeah, which is even more insane. Probably should have graphed that.

I don’t or at least didn’t read your original comment as “eat the rich”, but I agree. Rereading it I can kind of see the sentiment a bit, but ultimately Netflix 4k isn’t a “rich” kind of thing. Call me crazy but I think their profits show the price increase is just greed. And sure, make it be more than the standard plan, but that doesn’t account for the meteoric price increases.

It’s a banana Michael, how much could it cost…? Ten dollars?

I had family members getting blocked when they were legitimately travelling for work. (Travel nurse) It’s really bad and makes it so hard to use even when you’re paying for it. Which. Is. Insane.