Is that site legit? It used to be https://thedise.me/instander but it’s been down for a while and thedise was only sharing very sporadic updates via telegram.

I’ve bought my last 3 phones on swappa. I did have to send one back because it was the Verzion version and not bootloader unlockable (even though it said unlocked) and wouldn’t take my SIM.

I’ve though about one of these but the videos I’ve seen make it look very annoying to use.

One of the main grocery chains here makes you clip coupons in their app to get the price shown in the store.

For now at least you don’t need accounts to subscribe (I use Focus Podcasts from f-droid to manage my podcasts) but I wish more podcasters would self host and have no doubt that eventually Podcasts will end up behind the paywalls.

I bought a SIM from lebara mobile when traveling to europe once because it had 10x more data than other companies for the same price and it blocked VPN.

Everything is edible once.

Like the PedalPC?

Someone once broke into my sister’s car and stole her bag of gym clothes but I get what you’re saying.

Personally I would love a dumbphone but I find a smartphone too useful (specifically map and transit apps). I wish I could have the same number for one of each and only bring the smartphone when necessary.

Langis is Signal with the GPS requirement removed.

I went to a restaurant in Arrowtown yesterday and the POS asked for a tip. I’ve seen it a couple other places too but usually the worker hits no before giving it to me.

I believe it only protects your privacy from the merchant (which only works of you dont need the item shipped and can put in a fake address)

I also only use it for subscriptions and sketchy looking sites.

Banks keeping your money safe depends on what country you live in and how much its government has regulated them and/or provided some sort of backup in the case of a run or the bank going out of business.

If only we could convince US banks not to use MFA only via SMS

Indiegogo also tries to sneak a crazy high tip to the platform when you back a project now.

I’ve been using pixey.org for a year or so. No complaints

I use posteo for email and use davx5 to sync contacts and calendars to their carddav and caldav servers.

Betteridge’s law of headlines supports you.

I really like the interface of Zen.

As a participant, if there are over a certain number of participants it tells me I have to pay to see the rest.

TBH it’s been going downhill for the last couple years since they made groups pay a yearly (I think) fee. There used to be all kinds of fun free groups but it’s slowly becoming only sponsored groups or pay to attend meetups.