There are only so many good privacy options out there. So being choosy with services isn’t a luxury many can afford.

Imagine being frozen for 50 years, you step out at the worst time in 50 and immediately ask to go back in…

Me “What year is it?”

Employee “Why, it’s 2126. What’d’ya think, you like it?”

Me “But… why is everything on fire outside?”

Employee " haha 😅😅 funny you should ask, you see, this guy Trump was also froz–"

Me "throw me back in another 50 years please "

So, now everyone’s going to hate Mullvad like they do Proton bc of personal decisions by the CEO??

For the Chicagoland area, premium us generally $1-1.20/gallon more. Sometimes GB or the station itself would run a deal of $.25/gal off using the app. When I fill my 19.5gal tank, it’s easily saving $5 fill up, or about $20/mo or $280-300/yr.

At least it’s somewhat benefiting me by selling my data where usually there’s no perk at all. But when I learned just how bad, I’m definitely done. Basically you have no rights to your data, indefinitely, whether you’re a customer or not. And the Allstate partnership is a big no from me.

I gotcha. Over the life of using the app, it’s saved me damn near 500, and that’s odd I tracked it through the app which I didn’t always do.

I take premium though, so when prices shot up above $6.30/gal, it was nice to see who hadn’t jumped yet and save a little. Being that it went from ~$4 to $6.20-6.30, an extra $40/week in gas was killing me. That’s over $150/mo and, honestly, money is tight with everything else bring high, so. Just feels good to not feel like it’s money wasted. I know it’s not much, but it males up for times I’m not so stingy with money.

Not sure, for GasBuddy still work even though you don’t have any Google Services? I know Hushed, Traccar, and 1 other I forget, won’t work, so I doubt GB would work without at least MicroG.

You could maybe make a separate profile in that phone with microG so you at least could test?? I don’t know of Adblock would be enough, I’d be more worried about port scanning or invisible trackers.

Yeah I do about a tank a week and use premium (US 92-93 octane), so it matters as it’s a lot more expensive than other areas. I’ve noticed around Chicago, premium goes for $1-1.20 more per gallon, but if I travel to other areas like Indianapolis, St Louis, etc, its only maybe $.50 more (though it’s been a while since I’ve been in Indy).

Anyway, with a 19gal tank, that’s a big amount over time. If I save $.25/gal, that might only be $5/fill up, but in a month it’s $20+. I also seek the better 93 octane since technically 91-while “premium” doesn’t give me as good of mileage or power either.

Consisting you’re not on the Privacy page, or Piracy page, or even Self-Hosted or FOSS… I guess that depends on how well the service works combined with the cost and quality vs comparable services.

Personally, Apple is too closed an ecosystem, too expensive, not private enough, and too far behind in features offerings. I’ll likely never own an Apple product. I like the Free and Open Source Softwares, they offer solid features, customizations, privacy and control over your data.

Fuck that!!! Time to get cash from atm and go buy one just to have it

1. Provider doesn’t matter. I’m paying $6/mo for a Snikket instance, and $5/mo for a phone number from jmp.chat.

2. You can use any of them, Jabber, conversations, Snikket, cheogram, Prosody, etc. Xmpp works regardless of host. You could host your own and so task to people from other servers, it’s almost like an email address or how Lemmy instances can see and talk.

3. Correct, you don’t have to host your own server, but like I said I do for friends and family.

You could test it out if you like, most servers have free sign ups. Cheogram I think lists several that’re open too. You can text other xmpp users as well as SMS-though be mindful no encryption is used for SMS. Just TLS but that’s obv not e2ee.

Yeah, seeing how they wouldn’t offer secret service to RFK Jr when he ran for the short time, I’d certainly be SOL. I’d imagine I get the ol’ Russian “threw myself out the window” treatment or some other suicide thing…

Couldn’t I just run for president and abuse my “power” like Trump, but instead of doing lots of bad I could do good? Id start by making all these executive orders to raise wealth taxes, ban invasive technologies, limit social media influence, or big tech’s reach into buying out politicians, etc…

Think Robin Hood but on a presidential scale.

This sounds stupid, but it talks about privacy and flexibility of various connections, but if you integrated over internet or WiFi, wouldn’t the packet conversion setup be problematic including metadata for its destination? How else unless you had some sort of converting device at the receiving end, which then has IP address and other potentially identifiable into attached, even if there message is encrypted.

What real benefit does RNode have over Meshtastic or Meshcore?

Just seems like a “too good to be true” type deal.

Makes sense. I’m outside the dense area, and looking at the meshcore map there’s 2 repeaters a few miles in either direction so it’d be nice to expand the network

But meshtastic would still be beneficial too for family nearby

No, haven’t tried, it talks about this being better for xfce and not Cinnamon (Mint) or Mate (Ubuntu).

I can’t use Rustdesk unattended mode on Ubuntu or Mint 😭. I’ve tried reverting to X11 to no avail.

I second this!! Meshtastic would be great for the small group and functions without a gateway or central server!

So… Looks worse than a PS5 or XSX for several hundred more even after this console prices went up… I’m all for this PC hybrid, esp to compete in the market, but not at this price…

Anyone saying “it’s not bad” is already trying to justify the cost lmao! I built a PC a couple years ago with far better specs (i7-13700K w 64GB RAM & Arc A750, so anyone buying now is either desperate or uninformed. Sure the costs have risen by that’s no reason to cave and waste your money.