I agree. People that lack the technical expertise or rooting compatible devices shouldn’t be forced to even consider this. Once you have paid for a device, you should be allowed to do with it whatever the hell you want, without Google or other big tech shoving unsolicited policies down your throat.

You’re right. At the very least, users shouldn’t be forced to make this choice. It’s absurd how little authority we have over devices we have paid for with our hard earned money. :(

Are there people who are angry out of principle/ideologically but who don’t do sideloading etc? Because, I’d like to think that if you are angry enough at this, then you have the incentive and the will to root you phone (making it an unsupported device and making it NOT locked for sideloading) and go on with your life. I wish Google died like… Yesterday. Don’t get me wrong. Am I missing something?

I swear on EVERYTHING that I was imagining Holt when I wrote it :D 🩵🩵🩵

Same experience with Tutanota. :)

I accidentally purchased their most expensive plan, which I didn’t need, and it took one mail and a few minutes for them to downgrade my plan and refund the difference. :D

I agree though! The spring semester has had some awful “bumps”. Amazingly though, I only experienced it on the app. Didn’t seem to affect my Mullvad OpenWRT router. Which is even weirder, since it’s bound to a single node all the time. 🤔

I’d use ivpn for sure if I wasn’t with Mullvad! 😊

That’s sic too :D

He he, yeah, twas a nice surprise :D

Yeah. Other than being vocal about the right to privacy in my everyday life, maybe I should drop a job application at Mullvad 😆

While I do not condone creating an account on Reddit, the megathread of r/piracy is really great and accessible without an account. Check it out! Also: https://fmhy.net/

Holy Moly! DC++?! Brings me back. HARD.

I’m really not deep enough into that culture to understand what you mean. Either that, or it’s that I’m a non native speaker? 😅 Please explain. 🙏 Is it not just a nerdy way of saying “making a Linux desktop environment look fancy”?

Nah, tried it, but alas… I just went home and did it with LibreOffice on my Linux rig.

Why? People above ricing now? 🤣

Didn’t work for some reason. Now I’m guessing the files were read-only. But then again, LibreOffice opened them without issues on my Linux rig a few minutes ago…

Done and done 👌 thanks! 😊

Yeah, it’s pretty sweet! There’s even a whole sub over at Reddit. But be warned: I once asked politely why they insist on ricing their termux instances - expecting some sincere replies - and I got bullied out of there faster than the Millennium Falcon did the Kessel Run…

Yep, that still seems to be the case.

Yeah, I’m on my way home now to do this on my Linux rig. Ugh… Would’ve been nice to be able to do it from my tab at the cafe, but, we can’t have it all, I guess 🤣

Thanks! Unfortunately, neither were able to open my .docx files.