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[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

how does this differ from profiles in grapheneos? i've not used stock android so i don't know if it also has profiles but i used to use them for work related things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

sure, i expected this reply. again, i don't necessarily agree with the statement. herd mentality or not it's merely what i've observed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

i have yet to use one of these digital wallets but i would imagine a large part of it is "because everyone around me is doing it." not necessarily herd mentality but the social shift of it making checkout processes faster so if you're using cash or a card, you're inconveniencing the people in line behind you (however rational that may be is another topic).

i live in a semi-rural area and have seen very few instances of someone paying with their phone. it's so rare here, i'm not even sure how the process works. tap to pay with a card has only recently been more normalized here. however, when i travel for work to big cities, it seems like the only times cards are used is when there is a large group meal at a fancier restaurant.

i also carry a small amount of cash in case my card fails or a card machine is down but it's very rare to see cash used here as well, except for personal payments. even then, third party pseudo-bank apps are consuming that process (cashapp, venmo, etc.).

i'm not trying to justify any of these payment processes or mark one as better than the others. it's just an observation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Organic Maps works really well and uses OSM, though searching for business names is kind of wonky. also, GMaps WV is a wrapper around the web interface for Google Maps that works pretty well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Redlib is a handy accountless frontend for reddit that still works

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Third party app without an account maybe? Freetube on the desktop and newpipe on the phone is what I like to use. There's stuff like grayjay, tubearchivist, and pinchflat as well. Or just go straight yt-dlp.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

back in the dial-up and bbs days, i kept plenty of floppy disks (and later CDs) with my favorite media on them to play when i visited friends. in more recent history i have placed my digital media backups on drives to play at friends' houses. it's nice to be offline now and then.

while not technically sneakernet, we did have a piratebox set up at an office that i leased for backing up media collectively.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I'm out of the loop. What happened to libgen?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Newpipe appears to be working

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I sure hope this meme was edited or the op is satire. The dead internet has messed so many people up.

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