It’s all contextual I think. I’d rather use my ISP than use and support a bad VPN. If you’re using your work’s wifi using a VPN could get you flagged.

This is common debate and there’s plenty of angles to it. VPN companies are definitely guilty of fear mongering in their advertising and trying to market them as an easy way to achieve privacy or anonymity, which is false. Tom Scott’s video covers this well. This overview is also pretty good at explaining what it is and isn’t. If you don’t trust your ISP or are using public/free wifi, VPNs can be useful. VPNs aren’t inherently trustworthy either, though, especially free ones that might be harvesting your data. Even a well-intentioned VPN that doesn’t retain logs can rent servers that government entities can (theoretically) bug to get your data (if they really wanted to).

socialist like platform having an audience. Which in my opinion is why they wanted to force a sell or just ban Tiktok.

This logic doesn’t follow. What does forcing a sale have to do with being “socialist like” ? TikTok has been diluted into a sales platform anyway.

If didn’t work on it, someone else would.

I’m not trying to critique or judge you, but I think it’s worth pointing out this is a logical fallacy.

What does a “release” mean in this context?

If you don’t want to appear like a bot when applying I recommend doing this yourself like everyone else. The ATS will flag it

NewPipe is only on Android, no?

Most people don’t love that movie though. It’s an experimental movie based on a specific fear

Isn’t the Transit app better for that stuff compared to Google Maps?

(the) Gnorp Apologue (link)

Genuine question: If he didn’t know about the suit and was actually a hermit with no communication with family, could someone actually hide their way out of something like this?

For reference, the text is coming from the <title> tag in the HTML, which can differ from the displayed title at the opt of the article. It’s likely different for SEO/clickthrough purposes

Not sure what “Authenticator Pro” is but your link goes to “Stratum - Authenticator App” fyi

I guess it depends on how the word is used. I think of obsession as strictly a personal thing, and almost everyone I know wants 0 or 1 car because it’s difficult to get around without it. I’d consider that practical instead on excessive. Though I guess you could argue wanting your one car to be bigger or more expensive is excessive

Don’t get me wrong, the culture definitely favors cars over pedestrians. I just don’t think I’d use the word obsessive to represent that relationship

Edit: spelling

That’s a pretty ridiculous headline imo

• Nickel is used for lots of things
• “EV obsession” is not a thing unless “ICE obsession” exists, and both sound ridiculous
• The mining companies are responsible for their own actions, not consumers at large
• Indonesia is letting this occur and could theoretically step in at any time as far as I can tell
• Genocides are always on “an entire population” so that phrase is meaningless

A simple search will tell you a ton of people here use GrapheneOS and other custom ROMs. Are you karma farming?

Most of those should be replacement with robotics

Instead of purchasing a device why not just turn it off and put it away when you’re not using it?

Easier said than done. We’re emotionally connected to these devices and the freedoms they seem to provide

I don’t understand this. Small brained users rise up

Campaigning is getting people to vote for you which includes getting people out to vote. Those are the true “swing” voters. Her campaign failed in this regard