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  • First - I use cash in the absolute majority of situations. Control and privacy are absolutely worth it. Second - don't banks usually have their own payment system anyway? At least mine doesn't have functionality tied to Google services (to acommodate Chinaphones that come without such, but accidentally acommodating Graphene, Lineage and others as well).

  • Where I am, banks provide small NFC stickers for this purpose.

  • Unless the updates are done from your distro's repos

  • Also you need an account to even view it. And I've heard they're really trigger-happy about banning the accounts or holding them hostage until you provide a phone number...

  • I'm pretty sure my Debian doesn't collect personal data either

  • Me who dreads having to give her husband sex when she becomes a wife and hopes he'd pity her enough to not do it to her when she's clearly miserable and hates every second of it:

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  • But no one can take a file from my hard drives either. No need for it to be on a low-capacity disk when a thing half the size of a DVD box can fit orders of magnitude more.

  • That seems to be closed-source tho

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  • If the disk is going to be unused/thrown out anyway - why not buy a digital copy? Its only job would be corresponding to a usable file you download anyway... I do that with Steam games.

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  • Sometimes it is a button, but oftentimes it is just there by default :(

  • This is yet another way tying accounts to phone numbers can come back to bite you! I guess pulling out means denying registration from the country's numbers as well? So that would mean either a constant additional expense (which might be significant for poor people), or constantly risk getting the account deleted if you tied it to one-time rental.

  • Idk, I would be cautious about trusting my personal notes to a proprietary piece of software...

  • Me with folders upon folders of plain .txt:

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  • Used to be.

    After Mozilla laid off all Servo developers in 2020, governance of the project was transferred to Linux Foundation Europe. Development work officially continues at the same GitHub repository with the project itself entirely volunteer driven.

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  • If we are comparing it to Chrome, it is more like Ungoogled-Chromium.

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  • Funny that the crypto wallet also upset people in the space who like crypto. Because crypto, IF USED CORRECTLY, can be a privacy tool (because it is the main way to pay online that can be utilized without KYC). However, such people got upset not just with Proton broadening their product scope for no reason, but also the fact that Monero was not even considered, despite it having built-in privacy protections unlike Bitcoin, and overall being agreed on as today's "digital cash".

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  • I would not rely on provider-dependent encryption anyway. If you want actual encryption - use PGP.

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  • For me, the main advantage of the model is "you cannot conveniently observe everyone's activity from one place".

  • Yeah, but even them you'd need to be careful in choosing the model, because so many manufacturers make it either impossible or very hard to unlock the bootloader!!