Agree, same old BS to pump the id-gits up so they do complain about rotten education for children and wasting gross amounts of tax money for the War Economy. Everything about space and quantum computers is about war economy, power, corruption, wealth for the Oligarchs. But I could be mistaken. But, what has all this science done that prevented the now inevitable global warming / mass extinction event ? I live around Amish community and they seem to be very stable, healthy and happy for a community. They don’t live within the the perverted economic system of economic slaves and do well and cooperate on all levels, no guns required.

All high starch for health reasons, I do a KETO diet.

If you have a desk job and use phone for communications all day, it’s a blessing. I’m more impressed with making a phone as google free as possible, changing mobile data & wifi background & unrestricted data usage settings plus battery setting to optimized for frivolous apps I installed. And a phone with the newest 35 + watt charge capability. The high watt chargers are amazing. The OnePlus 7T Pro I have has the 35 w charger and it’s a game changer.

There are two America’s, one for the Oligarchy and whats left over for the general population.

It really isn’t a decline as much as the oligarchy on the verge of causing chaos to grab all power and fully enslave the general population.

Pixel 5a and GraheneOS.com and Silence on fdroid.

Pixel 5a plus GrapheneOS

metager, swisscows.

Retired here; paid off mortgage a few years ago, value was $159,000 two years ago, today, the mega rich are buying up all single family homes to turn into rentals. Today value is $250,000 as is.

The sellers in our range cannot buy another home without buying up, so they break even or are shoved out of home ownership and into renting or back into another mortgage. I believe the rich want to break home ownership in USA. Fk them, we aren’t selling.

The good news for us with mortgage paid off, is this house appreciating was part of the over all retirement plan. When housing crashed a few years back, and the home was bought for $139,000, the value dropped to $115,000, but the current increase saves us.

As in USA and other nations, the (So called) governments/religions steer morality. Regardless of historical social influence in China. It still is a huge disappointment to me to hear the Chinese government is acting this way. What is bizarre is that it seemed like they were becoming tolerant before. My sisters adopted daughter, my wife’s son, her niece are LGBTQ. It’s past time for Governments and Religions to allow all people their privacy to have whatever life style they wish as long.

Going by the definition of; "Materialism is a form of philosophical monism which holds matter to be the fundamental substance in nature, and all things, including mental states and consciousness, are results of material interactions. According to philosophical materialism, mind and consciousness are by-products or epiphenomena of material processes (such as the biochemistry of the human brain and nervous system), without which they cannot exist. This concept directly contrasts with idealism, where mind and consciousness are first-order realities to which matter is subject and material interactions are secondary. >>Materialism is closely related to physicalism—the view that all that exists is ultimately physical.<< "

QFT is showing that the universe is a concoction of QFT. Original Materialism is basically; what you see is what you have, it cannot accept quantum physics. There is a newer view of Materialism, but it is a band-aid over original Materialism. Similar to religions who fell on their sword of ideology, only to modify that which was sacred to accommodate advances in science and other knowledge. Like the religion which was founded on the exact date for the return of Jesus. I don’t accept re-do’s! If the original ideology is wrong, the concept must be placed on the trash heap of vain human ideas.

Duh.

WTF China! I thought this was bull shit Christian and Muslim shit. I have family who are LGBTQ+ and this is bull shit.

GrapheneOS is the best as it severely degoggles and is best at security and privacy. It only uses Google Pixel phones that are not sold through carriers. LineageOS degoogles but is lax on security, especially that it doesn’t lock boot. It is an oxymoron to say you want to degoogle and than add microG. With GrapheneOS you’ll start with just the basic phone functions and they are all secured, from there you can go to Fdroid and download more and I suggest looking at Simple Mobile suite of apps in fdroid. OsmAnd~ is an actual fdroid open source turn by turn map/guidance app.

I generally unzip in download, and it seems wrong and messy, want to do it sophisticated.

Thanks, yep< i know how to unzip, just never took it any further in educating myself, end up with all unzipped all Download. Which seems messy.

This guy has a YouTube channel all about phone privacy fixes! A complete education! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qhzU0NHIBrc

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Look here for a suggest, I used it on a OnePlus One which is a good option for quality and battery life, it also runs well on Nexus 5 but 5 has a short battery life. But Ubuntu Touch does function well with the basics. There is also an installer that works quite well. https://www.ubports.com/ It still is a smart phone per say, but it is quite inexpensive if that’s your main objective. The OS is pure Linux - Ubuntu’s OS for phones, which is really slick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ile_QCx7umQ

Yeah, there’s always those dozen people who can’t answer a direct question; viewer/editor… ;)