You get cash back if you paid with cash. Gift cards would probably also work for a scam like this.

Monero works for me, come to think of it idk when the last time i used cash for a “private” transaction, but all my webhosting and domains and whatnot get paid with XMR.

Does target no longer accept cash?

Navidrome + Feishin has good lyrics support.

I miss when people made web browsers without appeasing advertisers. Remember when mozilla introduced the popup blocker and netscape actually incorporated that into their mainstream product? You never see stuff like that anymore because advertisers control everything on the internet now.

I think you’re right to be scared, the only thing stopping a corp like microsoft from doing it already is the threat of facing legal sanctions, which is more of an inconvenience then a threat to a corp like microsoft.

If a single company has this level of control over our devices we’ve already lost.

Can you imagine a company like dell decided tomorrow to only allow installation from their specific vendor locked market? People would just not buy those products, you wouldn’t be demanding dell let you install linux, you just buy something else.

Even if i had to use a pc that’s 10+ years old, id choose that over using a new pc that can only run vendor approved software. I cant imagine anything a new devive like a phone might have that would change my mind about it.

Spin down when not in use is normally default behaviour for most systems already, you don’t need to do anything.

And yet i torrent constanly on mullvad and have a great ratio on every tracker i use 🤔

What do law did you think they use to go after people who they monitor on torrent swams? Its the dmca (or equivalent), they notify ISP and isp is obligated to either adress the user a warning or suspension. If the isp ignores and lets users keep going then its the billion dollar ISP not the user that would get sued

Look up the end result of Sony BMG v. Tenenbaum, sony didnt get a dime and was able to successfully discharge the debt through bankruptcy after exhausting all appeal options and costing SonyBMG a ton of money. Thats why you dont hear about lawsuits like that anymore.

They could easily get moles into every single private trackers

Maybe if they actually wanted to, but what actually happens is they hire a much smaller company that monitors public trackers and sends them thousands of “successful” takedowns. When have you seen private trackers taking down torrents due to DMCA? It pretty much never happens, even for public ones these days the best case for these companies is to get google or other search engines to remove torrent sites from results.

You are giving these corps WAAAY too much credit, they only target the lowest of low hanging fruit (ISPs and search engines) because anything else is a waste of time and money. There’s a reason you don’t hear about many lawsuits against private individuals anymore, its because they know its a bad idea to go after “Joe Schmo NoBody” with a net worth of $217 in the bank, who will just declare bankruptcy after the corp spends tens or hundreds of thousands of $ on lawyers for a single case.

Torrents work fine on mullvad

Soularr + lidarr is what i use to fill out my collection.

Im not a fan of proton, but this trend of blaming corps for individuals poor opsec (paying with a method linked to their real identity) is pretty lame.

Do people using these services actually expect a corporation to break laws or violate court orders on behalf of their users?

Proton regularly releases very clear info about how often they comply with legal orders, this isnt a secret and its certainly not protons fault that activists had poor opsec.

Lmfao, verify your mastodon account with a credit card… Who falls for this stuff?

Used phones exist and if you buy ANY android phone google has been paid at some point for licensing not to mention whatever junk the carrier puts on them to subsidize costs.

Only phones with hardware-backed verified boot + bootloader relock using alternative keys (currently only Pixels) can support GrapheneOS correctly (according to the GOS team)

So the only thing this can mean is that moto plans to release new hardware with this capability, because none (other then pixels) currently exists.

Dont expect this to mean GOS is coming to older devices. Its unlikely moto will even sell them preloaded because GOS is not exactly the most consumer friendly android fork.

What is a dummy account in this context?

I have about a dozen accounts i rotate between using when i hit usage limits on cursor and other ai junk. I did pay for them but they cost like $2 each

I run an 8 disk 90tb BTRFS RAID0 and its been going strong for over a year. I hesitate to actually encourage anyone to live this dangerously but its mainly a media server and if i needed to i could restore any lost data from usenet or torrents using my arr stack which is on a different drive. If you can handle the risk its a nice speed boost.

Its not up to grapheneos devs which devices support bootloader relocking with different keys, literally only pixels allow this and without it you cant properly secure the phone.