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Exactly. The app developers were willing to make changes but they didn't give them nearly enough time to do it. They dropped the changes at the last-minute and then lied about what they and the developers said in their private conversations. Then they got mad at the Apollo dev for recording it to cover their ass. It's like getting mad at your partner when you cheated on them lol.

I use mine everyday. I listen to music, podcasts, and sometimes watch videos at work, basically the entire time I'm working. I usually have my phone connected and charging at the same time through the charge port. Wireless charging doesn't work because of my Pop Socket.

They also break or I lose them in occasion and it takes a quick trip to any gas station, grocery store, or basically any nearby store during my lunch break, and I'm able to pick up replacements for $10-$20.

Fair to say, I refuse to buy my next phone without headphone jacks. I do use wireless headphones for when I'm working out, but otherwise, at work or on walks, I use wired ones connected to my headphone jack.

I'd also recommend [email protected]. They seem to find some pretty good communities.

Reddit does get super echo chamber-y in some places, though. Check out any thread in /r/worldnews lately and all the comments. They're all of the same opinion. At least on Lemmy I see disagreement. I see as many complaints about tankies on Lemmy as I do tankies themselves, for example. The only one I've seen in this thread has all their comments in the negative.

I agree and have noticed the same things. I don't think Lemmy is big enough to attract the state sponsors yet like Reddit is but it will probably be susceptible to the same issues when it is.

Just use this to find communities.

So like the relays or whatever that Mastadon has but topic and community focused?

It's hilarious for all the "democracy" the US loves to "export", it actually has a pretty terrible democracy. Wildly popular policies have no way to make their way to the government unless a rich person or corporation also lobbies for it.

This is now automatically a great day.

Hell no. It's like something from Saw.

I've heard of it, but have only ever heard of that being used on people who are carrying straight cash, because only drug dealers do that I guess... /s

Like you said, for white collar crime or corporate , I've never heard of it being used.

Tbh, while in this case I think it's egregious because I don't think using a VPN should actually be a crime, I'd love to see that punishment system used in the US.

Imagine if instead of paying fines for illegal stuff and then continuing to ignore the laws, Facebook, X, and other rich people and corporations had to pay back all the income made from doing their illegal activity.