Well, if we are going to eat meat, we better use the skins too, instead of wasting them.

I think you may be onto something. Everything happened awfully quick. Almost like it was planned.

US is a weird country.

I live in EU, and I haven’t even heard of bandwidth quotas on home fiber. Cheap mobile subscriptions have some, though. But mostly it’s just no limit.

Going the extra mile tends to burn people out. It’s profitable only if workers are a commodity that can be replaced and thrown out like garbage when inevitably broken.

Oh yeah. America.

One could argue that low earth orbit is a natural monopoly like water pipes, electricity poles or railroads, and should be owned by governments, that could rent bandwidth to companies.

The problem with that plan is that there very rarely is any accountability for the executives. At worst, they get a lucrative package, and find a new position in another company, with more “experience”. It’s usually the workers who get blamed and fired, even if they were following orders.

I’m lost.

What country are you living in to need spam filtering for SMS?

US has been building soft power like this for decades, and Trump is pissing it all away.

If this process to get rid of dependency on US gets well underway, there’s no turning that ship. US won’t recover the position it had in fifty years or more.

Hot water is pretty expensive. Even if you are not worried about the phone, you may want to consider the impact on the environment (and your finances).

Good article.

Currently passkeys are too much of a vendor lock-in to big tech.

Bitwarden support alone does not change that.

I don’t dispute that, but can you point to the relevant law?

We need smartphones that we can actually own and control. Root access with locked bootloader and good security.

Two problems:

1. No automatic call recording.
2. Banking apps don’t work on GrapheneOS thanks to Play Integrity APIs, so you probably need to root to get them to work.

If you need to root anyway, might as well use BCR.

Cool. Now let me legally record my phone calls without rooting my phone.