the most relevant comment

I wouldn’t call it a “scam” just manipulative marketing

the difference?

yes, they do (redmi the same as other xiaomi phones) and that’s an important thing I left out.

I did create an account long ago with an alias email that i’ve used for the unlocking of several phones’ bootloader. it also requires a phone number for “verification” when you start the unlocking process, so for anonimity you’d need an unregistered burner phone number

so it does leave a trace in their books

in case you go for a cheap new phone, around here the best option are some Redmi ones. recently got a Redmi Note 9 and slapped LOS on it for a friend, for about 170€. since none are very recent models, sometimes I had to spend a good time searching for them in shop stocks

there is a fork with proprietary dependencies removed called Signal-FOSS, whose repo you can add to F-Droid if you decide to trust it

omg, thank you. i just learnt about the “tags” function that I’ve always assumed worked differently without even trying it

Feeder is a perfectly functional RSS reader for Android, and the only updated and straight forward one on F-Droid when I decided to set up my feeds, and an app I’ve seen suggested on Lemmy several times when there’s mention of RSS…but why doesn’t it have groups? I’ve got my general news mixed with tech news, cluttered in between the rest of it - it does have grouping and it’s called “tags”

this thread made me re-check and there are some new options in there and at least one will let you group the feeds: Read You

EDIT: dumb take

I wonder about Kyocera, because I haven’t yet used one but I did have a rugged phone that took all kinds of serious beating and drowning (like actually being thrown full force into the wall/ground and spending the night in the rain) and still turns on to this day

and my experience with other brands of printers was never stellar. Brother was the less bad one, even though the one I used the most. HP was awful

all of this was inkjet, though. I have barely used laser in some offices but the one I’m furnishing now asked for one, which I also thought was the best option for durability and reliability

isn’t Izzy’s full of closed source stuff?

thanks everyone for the feedback. while unaware, I was still using Invidious in Freetube through the setting “Proxy videos through Invidious”. it’s turned off now and working fine

how can i find such “obscure” instances, tho? i’ve always picked one from the Invidious’ website public list and, upon testing, all of them seem slow right now

also, I had forgotten to try Piped, which is working fine

on a side note, I’d never understood why Piped was made, given that Invidious exists, but here it is, in case anyone wants to know

you are free to do as we tell you

jfc

damn, even with seeing the bot around here i forgot to try Piped these days

anyway, i’ve found a solution - i had “proxy videos through Invidious” turned on on Freetube (which was redundant since i’m behind a VPN). i’ve unchecked it and things seem fime now

still, thank you

yeah on Newpipe videos load fine. thanks to your comment I noticed Freetube is giving me an error with local API, so that’s why

this is the way

i’ve worked at a call center years ago on the retentions dep. of some mobile internet provider. after learning of such trickery, i’ll fucking tell everyone that will listen “hey mate, you’ve got a internet/telephone/cable tv subscription? are you in the “fidelity” period? (yeah that shit is a thing here…) ok so listen, AS SOON AS a second passes from the end of the period, this is how you get the actual decent price for service…”

some people had to stop me on my track several times because i was repeating myself to them (forgot who i’d already told about it) because i must make sure everyone knows

been doing it all these years

i really don’t think so. i hope it will be so in the future

no real estate taxes for the first house owned, heavy and progressive taxes starting on the second, is an idea

companies get called people all the time, i’m starting to believe it, but i still think they don’t need shelter, so they shouldn’t be able to aquire a basic human need

so i guess over 20% of houses in Austria, Netherlands, or Denmark have no lights and leaking roofs. if only those people got their own…

i only check myself out whenever i shoplift

“popular social networking site makes minor UI ajustment”

technology!!