So you repkied to me qualifying that it is an effective duopoly by saying that there are other companies which is what is implied in what I said?

Who is dense when you can’t understand the practicalities of real life and how business interact with our lives. You can get a linux phone, which is probably below .5% of market share and then sandbox android to use these apps…which is in itself necessitating the use of a google product.

I could walk into the bank also or not talk to people but effectively there are two manufacturers with a duopoly on consumer mobile communications enviromments.

“There are ways” is some cop out bullshit.

Sold my Audi when they started this, VWs are already overpriced basic shits.

Give me asian cars.

Ok show me a phone that is readily available that has the ability to log into banking apps etc.

The piece on using the tech is a bit much. We cannot get by without a smartphone in modern life and they essentially do not exist outside of apple and google.

Just do it, its simple. I moved to Linux Mint and it is essentially no different. Loads the same browsers for everything. Every major piece of software, in my case, has a linux version or at the very least and linux based alternative.

Email your MEPs, push back on the narrative that it protects children. IF it even did protect children it would be at the cost of any semblamce of privacy. Politicians are also exempt despite a pedo politician leading a major world power right now.

I got an immediate response explaining their stance is based almost entirely around the disemination of csam.

It is a noble goal but akin to ending traffic deaths by mandating getting and checking the coast is clear every 10 meters.

I am having a really difficult time getting grandparents on board with this, it is infuriating.

I dont want them to be luddites but I dont want dependence until it is necessary for socialising and career etc.

We moved to m365 and were encouraged to try new elements. I gave copilot an excel sheet, told it to add 5% to each percent in column B and not to go over 100%. It spat out jumbled up data all reading 6000%.

The cows yearn to be milked.

You could save nearly a couple hundred a year in most instances. LG have a dev account path, android is relatively simple I hear and various foss apps and patching apps will cover most.

Google are undeserving of more money

Fuck youtube and their shit premium pricing