butter

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[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

You have to ask yourself: what can you actually get away with.

If you're techy, get a Linux phone. I assume there's a WhatsApp client, but if not you could bridge to Matrix.

Then you'll have the option to use a phone, without the addictive qualities of Android/iOS.

Your next best will be GrapheneOS. By default, no Google, so no notifications at all. But that can be turned on and enabled if needed.

[–] butter@midwest.social 2 points 8 months ago

Has anyone tried a Pixel 8 on a Lapdock or a regular dock?

[–] butter@midwest.social 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

So I'm aware that there's a problem with "just planting trees and expecting everything to work out". Things like growing wrong trees.

But I assume they're planting native trees, so what exactly is the problem?

[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Thunderbird is blue and has opt-out telemetry.

That is it right now.

[–] butter@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] butter@midwest.social 4 points 9 months ago

Time to upvote and not donate.

[–] butter@midwest.social 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The signal doesn't have to take down everything. Just a critical mass to take the world down. For example, if it couldn't get the hospital, it could get the power companies nearby. Or take down the next town over and overrun the functional town.

I'm pretty sure his elevated privilege was the gun (or bomb or whatever, it's been a minute since I read it).

The funder probably got to chose where the money went. And Kern wanted a monkey planet. I think the goal was to establish communication with them.

I think they found people were living there, and IIRC, that's how the book ends, with them headed back to earth.

I can't speak for the military thing. I don't remember it well enough.

[–] butter@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago (5 children)

What didn't make sense? Magic potion makes evolution fast.

Designed for monkeys, but monkeys didn't make it to the planet

[–] butter@midwest.social 0 points 9 months ago

Will this happen to Chromium apps? I use vanadium

[–] butter@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

Just emulate from your phone. It's super easy.

[–] butter@midwest.social 3 points 9 months ago

Verifiably, at that. On device only. Works without play services. Works without internet (doesn't even request internet permissions).

Also open source.

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