I think there’s a small middle class who could survive without working for a year or so, but wouldn’t really be able to live well. Probably mostly just lower level tech workers and so on. Although if they moved to really poor areas in the US they could probably be classified as rich so YMMV I guess.
Tankies are basically just magats who swallowed eastern propaganda and somehow think it makes them morally superior to everyone else.
I find it funny that this always gets posted when people make comparisons to North Korea, which is pretty much always chosen because it’s like the poster child for shit human rights. Do you want them to pick the Congo instead or something?
It’ll be fun to see how long it takes them to completely destroy the app.
Firstly, what is this “we?” Did he move to the UK? No? Then why the fuck is he acting like he has a say?
Secondly, he sounds actually deranged based on the quotes. I feel more and more like conservatism should be classified as a mental illness.
Might as well make a site called “Expose School Shooters” and put the info of Republicans on it.
I had to track down the comment since no one linked it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=45171576
Hopefully they finish stabilizing cross-platform backups through the new service and port local backups to the new format in a reasonable timeframe, although I’m not gonna hold my breath. I still think it’s completely ridiculous that this (really basic tbh) feature took so long.
In the post, they say it’s something they plan to do in the future building atop the changes they’ve made, so it’s not fixed yet.
While this is good since it provides some revenue beyond donations and also simplifies data backups, I think it’s kind of ridiculous that they still have not implemented a way to restore backups cross-platform (it’s just left as something they plan to do in the future). Like, is it really that hard to just export and import a file in a standard format?
It’s more than just mental healthcare. American society is just broken in so many ways.
I mean Japan’s political situation is kind of weird. The LDP has basically been in power forever (with super brief interruptions). It lost power recently though so we’ll see what happens I guess. IIUC tho anti-immigrant sentiment is rising (at least partly fueled by the massive waves of shitty tourists IMO), which prob isn’t a great sign based on what’s been happening in other countries.
Block the main instances/ones publicly recorded somewhere. That would basically cripple it for most people.
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They’re getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don’t want to give them money from tariffs, then all you’ve done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.
Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they’ll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn’t even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.
I’m mainly purchasing things made outside the US at this point.
Plot twist: the detective is the murderer
Not really disproving my view that execs are basically the easiest members of a corporation to replace with an AI. Tell an AI to suck up to Trump and randomly lay off workers to “improve efficiency” and you’re golden.
Tbh I think disabling play services on a Samsung phone is kind of like pissing into the wind since Samsung’s privacy is so terrible, but I guess it’s better than nothing. Only one company stealing all your data instead of two lol.
Maybe it’s because I haven’t used One UI and I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying, but I’m pretty sure some of those aren’t really much different on GrapheneOS (or AOSP). Brightness can be changed in the quick settings/toggles/whatever they’re called thing in the notification shade using a slider. Bluetooth autoconnects when enabled, although idk if there’s a way to get it to work on the lock screen without unlocking. There might be a setting to allow it. I personally don’t think it matters much since it’s not like I constantly turn it on/off. It also takes two taps I guess if your phone is already unlocked. IIRC the wifi/cellular thing is fixed in Android 16 QPR1 (so will be fixed in GrapheneOS soon), but I haven’t checked recently so maybe that changed.
The Google search thing is not there on stock GrapheneOS since it’s not using pixel launcher or whatever. Idk when you last used it since you mentioned the Pixel 5, so it might also just be things have changed since you last used it.
I’d be pretty much fine with the USB-C dongle solution if there were two ports, but there aren’t so you need to pick between charging and headphones, which is super annoying. Phones with headphone jacks are basically dead though now, unfortunately.
Pixel hardware is kind of a mixed bag though, yeah. Beyond the headphone jack issues, the kinda shitty processor (compared to Qualcomm) is irritating as well. Doesn’t usually cause problems, but games or even just flutter apps sometimes just run poorly. Samsung hardware with GrapheneOS would be my ideal phone probably.
The Bluetooth issue can be resolved by just permanently attaching a short USB-C dongle to your headphones (although TBF I’d also prefer a headphone jack).
I’m not really sure what you mean by everything taking more clicks than it should. Maybe it’s just because I’m used to the standard Android UI (guessing you have OneUI or whatever), but I don’t really think that’s an issue? It’s not really any different from most other Android devices I’ve used. You can also configure some things to be less secure/private (lock screen notifications come to mind), which might fix whatever it is you’re talking about.
The only negatives from the security focus IMO are maybe a bit slower performance (not really noticeable frankly) and occasionally an app not fully working because of Play Integrity, but that’s pretty rare in my experience (the main issue there for me is Google Wallet or whatever not supporting NFC, which does suck). If you install sandboxed Google Play and give it whatever permissions it needs, the device functions pretty much the same as a stock Pixel, albeit without Google’s AI gimmicks.
I mean, I don’t think I’d classify someone like that as straight up poor. They’re certainly working class, but if you can afford to survive for a year without work, you’re significantly more well-off than someone living paycheck to paycheck.