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I mean, for me personally money was only part of the equation considering I was willing to put myself in debt. I could have better job security doing a trade job if money was the only factor. I also found computers inheritly interesting and the job was in high demand at the time. It all has backfired now though, despite developing a passion for tech and software overtime. I honestly SHOULD have done something only for the money instead of finding the best of both worlds, but hindsight is 20/20 I suppose

Copyright can be used to in a good way. Unfortunately, its mostly used by big corporations as a battering ram to extract as much money as possible from smaller businesses and even just individuals

Pretty sure this has already been a thing

That might be true as I haven’t looked into it in detail. Though even then, if the goal is to make cars more affordable, there’s lots of other features you can cut down on that has nothing to do with safety

Ah yes, it’s safety that makes newer cars expensive you see. Not the wireless key-fobs, power seats, built in ipad to replace the perfectly fine knobs and buttons, autonomous driving features…

Guess we need to use capitalism to destroy capitalism like that jREG skit

The government is shutdown, people are starving, flights are being cancelled, inflation is being suffocating, and people are being kidnapped at the streets. So obviously, the name of a new football stadium is DEFINITELY what he should be focusing on. Fucking hell

I have it working on Ubuntu 25.10 and it worked out of the box for me. So I’m not sure if they added the drivers for experimental releases of Ubuntu or I had them unknowingly installed somehow. Therefore, no idea what to tell you other than try Ubuntu 25.10?

Guess ICE can detain someone without a warrant for any reason without needing to announce themselves, not just immigrants. Kinda like a secret police…huh. What other countries had a secret police again? 🤔

Isn’t Lemmy technically a form of social media? 🤔

This is why I keep my phone in a spot for me to physically get up to turn off the alarm so that morning me can’t just “rest your eyes”

What’s a backbone?

Yeah, if Android effectively kills fdroid, then it essentially becomes like iOS. Whilst you can technically still sideload, apps must get certified by Google themselves and there’s no way they’ll allow 90% of fdroid unless its their Google Play versions.Tbf though, I didn’t know the background thing, which just goes to show that neither of them are ideal. Especially since Apple locks down their devices really hard which turns things like transferring files without a cloud service into a challenge. Therefore, in the future, I might just use a dumb phone for basic phone calls and text messages (meanly just for things like job applications or services like pharmacies) and a Linux phone for everything else. That’s assuming Linux phones have evolved just enough to be usable alongside a dumb phone for what it can’t do, which is SMS.

You don’t even need to say something, just become a “security risk” to them by using uBlock Origin to block their trackers. In other words, how I personally got banned. Anyway, welcome to Lemmy!

iOS would be the better alternative, if it wasn’t for the hardware they run on. After all, Apple is infamous for their blatant planned obsolescence on their iPhones since the iPhone 6. Unfortunately, Google seems to be following Apple in this way as well since they launched an update that made the Pixel 6a’s battery so much worse than before. Therefore, we must all have a dumb phone + Linux phone set up…or something

True, though it still makes it harder for my sister to seek asylum when they are cracking down on immigration, no? I didn’t mean to imply that they are equivalent. Of course America is much, much worse.

However, since Canada also seems to be turning right, it’ll more so be a move to delay the inevitable even if she is able to seek asylum. It’d be better than staying here at least, assuming America doesn’t invade Canada for Lebensraum within 4 years.

Seek asylum where? Canada? They’re also slowly becoming more right wing and cracking down on immigration iirc. Which is unfortunate, since I might be forced to become a criminal to support my sister’s right to exist

You could also run Google Play Services for essential apps like for your bank account as an example under a “work profile” using Shelter to isolate them into their own environment. However, I’m not sure how well that’s going to work after the app verification update since Shelter won’t ever be on Google Play, but Shelter will be evaluated as admin in that environment alongside Google Play Services. So, who knows?

TFW more than half of my phone’s applications is getting thanos snapped and it’s also carrier-locked

I’ve tried applying for jobs that didn’t really require my degree but was adjacent to it like data entry and help desk after graduating unemployed, only to be met with more rejection and failure. It’s as if my degree doesn’t exist. Unless you have any suggestions for a job that only requires a non-specific degree, but I’ve heard having a degree in itself isn’t valuable to employers at all unless it’s related in some way to the job. Either way, I’m trying to stay motivated to make projects on the side to hopefully refine my programming even further, but not only do I don’t have any ideas for projects that don’t already exist, but I’m not fully convinced that it will be worth the time. Especially considering every other attempt that involved working and studying for many hours have blown up in my face so far.