They didn’t look all that advanced…

$432 mil is about 80 dollarbucks per head.

Considering that schoolkids already ride free, that’s a rather high estimate.

Yep. You’re right. That’s 100% an uber with blackjack and hookers.

I think he just played a hand of poker too.

Kleptomania.

I wanted to get involved in a community project around Manhattan. Is there anything good going on?

Oil again? I’m hoping one day they find democracy.

Yes.

I searched for “Messages” on the play store, and the top link was malware. WTAF?

I removed the network permission from the play store. Apps will still work if they arbitrarily require Google Play to be installed. The store itself can’t do shit.

GrapheneOS can remove Play Store network permissions. I’m not sure about others.

This is my preferred one. Just paste one command into a powershell console to run it.

https://github.com/Raphire/Win11Debloat

Run a Win11 debloat script. It will remove a lot of privacy-invading windows components.

Apart from that, install a browser that isn’t Chrome, and use an ad blocker.

Don’t install any garbage that gives the Uni IT department any control over the device.

Way to stand up to the man!

The inbuilt VPN is a red flag. A VPN isn’t private unless you own the server. It’s channeling all your data through a third party. They could be watching it in the same way your ISP can.

Optus can barely make a regular 4G call at this point. The drop in call quality when routing between networks is absurd. The last 000 call we made was so bad that we had dropouts whist standing in the middle of a suburban footy oval.

I’ve also found that it’s possible to completely break VoWifi so it will say it’s connected but fail to make or receive calls. Just enable 464XLAT on wifi and connect a Google Pixel to it.

The Optus network is about 15 years behind the competition at this point.

She’s the woman who kept the dream alive.

Do you reckon there’s a fraction out the back that isn’t 9/10, or did it never exist?

I’m wondering why it’s even a thing.

That sounds like a bit of a ride. I just selfhosted everything. There’s still things tied to my gmail, and probably always will be. However they’re not seeing the important stuff like medical, school, banking and services.

NGL; selfhosting is quite a commitment too. Especially for email. There are a lot of hoops to get trust as a server, and full text search took me years to get working right. Hosting a keepass database on a personal webserver is not as convenient, but there’s 100% control.

I inherently don’t trust any company that sells trust or privacy as a product. I’ll only fully trust open source software running on my own metal.

Alternative medicine is a placebo at best, and has an adverse reaction at worst. The TGA only cares about the latter.

Of course, people die because they think they’re treating a condition when they’re actually not.