If you don’t need real time sync you can disable background use of the app. That’s what I’ve done, and I just open the app when I need to update. Probably a smarter way to do it, but it works for me.

Now I’m picturing a PHON Party phone.

Automatically disconnects the call if an accent is detected

Only charges from fossil fuel sources

Proximity screeching (in Pauline’s voice) when within 5 meters of a Greens voter

Pre-order now for a free bundled Burka!

data harvesting and leaks

looks inside

Israel

Every. Fucking. Time.

One of the Aussie communities AFAIK. Also here, outside of the fediverse, all mainstream porn sites require age verification. lol no thanks I’ll just VPN somewhere sane, wow problem solved.

I rarely get ads, thanks to pihole. But whenever my server is down for maintenance etc. I get spammed with “Visit the USA!” and “America the Beautiful” ads. I live in Australia… Why the fuck would I want to visit that shithole country?

It seems like the US is drowning and is trying desperately to get more people in to replace the “illegals” they’re deporting. Maybe I’m just their target audience (straight, white, male) ughh… makes me feel gross.

You guys managed to fuck up your own country so badly, we sure as hell don’t want the same for our countries.

You will live in the pod and consume the slop

Actually really cool news though.

Verbatim still manufactures their DataLifePlus series of BD-Rs, and they are excellent. The market otherwise is pretty bleak… Ritek offers nothing that compares to the DLP discs.

Also, side note, Pioneer (once a leading manufacturer of BD burners), no longer makes them. LG is the lone surviving manufacturer I believe.

Recently sold mine after the OneUI 8 update. S24U to a Pixel 10 Pro XL with GrapheneOS. Loving it.

For the love of Mithras do not get a fucking firestick. The amount of data collection and phone home requests those things do is actually insane. Not to mention they’re locked down hard now, you can’t even change launchers. You’ll be back at square one with a TV spewing ads at you without consent, and you can’t do shit.

I’d love to make the switch. I was looking into custom roms for my S24U and finally decided I’m okay with tripping Knox, so I’d give it a go… Nope! Samsung has removed the ability to unlock the bootloader in OneUI 8, with no path to downgrade. So I’m stuck with an excellent piece of hardware, running software that collects and sells my data.