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So far so good with banks, haven't had any bank apps not work (and do use some large and small ones). Honestly haven't tried Auto yet though

I've been using the Murena fairphone for about 8 months now. Has its ups and downs, it uses microG to simulate play services. Most things work except for my Samsung watch and the wallet. Feel free to send questions my way

It's 150 because they're subsidizing the phone so you'll pay for service, addons, and so they can sell your data and bloatware. Fairphone isn't expensive, the other phone is artificially cheap.

Graphene is only on pixels, why not their /e/os?

The claim that they can undercut human driven taxis I guess, but then as all enshittified services it won't stay true. They would only do that until people have become used to them then jack up the rates far beyond what cabbies ever were

This is one of those "Legally nothing is wrong, but morally and ethically it definitely is". Still a case where I throw even more massive shade on these companies for doing it. They could have just been donated to a library, there was no need to destroy them.

Red Dead Redemption

Right? That's my thing, look at airlines and their Razer thin margins. They just built this megastructure and can't operate any of it without completely depending on gas prices.

Even without the green aspects no one stopped to think about the return on investment of layering the entire place in solar? 5 years from now? 20?

I tried marketplace but its a cesspool. Ended up selling mine to Carmax, may be surprised, I got a grand more than I expected. If it wasn't for bottom feeders who lowball everything I would have tried longer online.

Real men build their own girlfriends, they don't wait for some beta company to do it for them.

There how I've reframed it every time I hear it. So how are you reducing your need for gas? I'm biking and taking transit so it has stopped hurting so much. Try to alter their thinking from "this is unavoidable" to "I guess we could do fewer trips"

AI isn't evil. Generative AI isn't evil. AI has existed for 20+ years now, I studied it back in my uni days.

Corporations, how they trained it, how they use it now, how they are willing to pave the planet to force it down our throats is evil.

This is one of those things as tech people we have to come to terms with and understand. No technology is inherently good or evil, it's what people do with it.