Go to a branch and set the account up there. No reason they’d need your face. Bonus point of using a local bank: they have to worry about their customers doing a domestic terrorism on them if they fuck them over somehow. So they have more incentive to not do that.

The last one I pay for anyway. Not even sure I actually paid for that one…

I don’t want to speak to my computer. I don’t need AI to perform basic tasks. I don’t need my computer usage redefined. Fuck off Pavan.

No, products and services are actually way worse these days. More expensive and riddled with micro-transactions trying to nickle and dime you every way they can.

For a lot of people just about every aspect of adult life sucks. You cant afford anything, your job is stressful as hell, everywhere you go costs money, your responsible for your own healthcare, etc.

It’s not weird at all to be nostalgic about your childhood where you were happy, loved, and carefree (if you were fortunate enough to have had a childhood like that).

But all the new stuff is enshittified by capitalism so it’s not as enjoyable as the old stuff.