Its meant to save you a step. Before at whole foods you had to get out your phone, open the amazon app, scan your prime QR code, then get a card and pay. This just does all that with an enrolled palm.
I still don’t trust it. I laughed at it when I saw it and even the clerk admitted it was dumb.
For me, it is about removing an attack vector crazy people might use. We live in a time where people can seek revenge for the pettiest things. In thepastt, I had gotten into an argument on reddit over something harmless and they doxxed me and sent a warning to my house. I deleted everything and overhauled my privacy.
This is the way. I’m basically only online at work now. Once I’m home I just smoke a bowl and relax offline. I’ve been making music a bunch lately and going on photo walks. I used to play video games to pass the time but even those are awful now.
Imagine having the wool pulled this far over your eyes. Couldn’t be me
Another vote for tuta here. Very nice service and having my email @ be tuta.io is very satisfying
I am an IceRaven enjoyer
Yes!
I try to navigate everywhere with organic map. If I need to look up a business’ coordinates, I use a web container of gmaps I found on f-droid. If I go somewhere and it isn’t in open maps, I add it.
You could actually put Lineage OS with Micro G on your current phone and be living the dream, it is supported.
That definitely makes it harder. When I was first switching I still kept my smartphone, I just had it turned off in my bag. If I ran into something that needed it, I would use it and work out a long term solution later.
Now I split my time between a dumbphone and a de-google smartphone with very restricted apps. I take the smartphone out when I know its gonna be a busy day or I have errands, but for a basic day of going to work and back home, a dumbphone is fine
If you use a a third party processor for payments like privacy.com or PayPal does it still need the app?
I regularly live with a dumbphone. All it can really do is makes calls and text. Its only difficult if you give a shit about social media and chat apps. I don’t so its easy
I personally don’t like utilikilts because the sort of folk who wear them at faire aren’t always the most savory, but I fuck heavily with a traditional tartan and a sporran.
at any previous job I would agree, but I work in a datacenter now that is not only quite cold, but also has lots of strong sources of blowing air that could be problematic with the wrong dress. Whenever I go to renfest I wear my kilt and fucking love it though.
Fair enough. I took efforts a few years back to eliminate all my social media, and started a new reddit (now lemmy) account and made efforts to be more anonymous
I’m sure they collect some info on me, but for me its about not just handing it over.
To be fair, you basically have to give up on your privacy if you want to be a public figure these days. To make it most musicians have to constantly evangelize themselves, which means being omnipresent on social media platforms.
Yep you need pretty girls in your photos, shorts, reels, stories, 20hashtags per image, and co stant interaction bait just to gain some bot followers
I quit a few years back and do not miss it.
Kbin federates with lemmy so what’s it matter?
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