At a quick guess? This is coming for other banks too to make room for TrumpBank.

If you find it does that, like:

Album1 7/12 tracks

Album2 1/15 tracks

Album3 4/21 tracks

I just click and drag Album2 and Album3 into Album1

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good.

Signal is about privacy, it’s never been about anonymity. The purpose is to encrypt your communication, not hide who you are.

As long as the battery only drops to around 50% on an average day I’m fine with it. I have gotten used to wireless charging but that’s not a deal breaker. I’ve been moving away from all-in-one tech lately to devices with a single use (like a music player) and moving away from wireless things as well (headphones) so I’ve brought wires back into my life anyway lol

Yeah I’ll be running my Pixel 9 with Graphene until 2031 unless something happens to it, so lots of time for this (and others like it) to be out in the wild. Keeping a close eye on this as well as linux phones. Also I think the last phone I had with customisable LED was a Galaxy S3 lol, that would be very cool to use LEDs again.

Didn’t know kid rock doesn’t have ears

I hadn’t heard of the MP2 until this post. Looking into it, aside from the SD card, the MP2 looks to win in every other aspect for me. I’ll be keeping an eye on it.

I’ll be running my Pixel 9 with Graphene until I can’t, which should be awhile but the MP2 looks like an interesting project. Swapping to a Google-free OS is make or break for me so this seems to tick all the boxes. I can see the physical switch being assignable as something I’d end up not being able to do without lol.

Gonna look into the Minimal OS some more and keep a close eye on this. Thanks for the detailed post.

A lot of these types use ‘perfect being the enemy of good’ as their attack vector. If it’s not private and anonymous why bother? If you can’t cut out all big tech companies, if you can’t stop buying any American goods, if you can’t feed all the poor or house all the homeless, etc. It’s an effective way to attack progression by making people believe they should just stop fighting, they’ll never win. You nailed it, Signal is private, it doesn’t claim to be anything else.

Same here! I’ve been moving away from all-in-one tech to devices that only do one thing and do it well, usually with wires lol. Wired headphones in a DAP (Hi-Fi Walker) that I also plug into the car, old Sony e-reader that still holds a battery charge for a month, analogue watches, disconnected TVs, pen and paper notebooks, etc. I plug in when I can and avoid bluetooth.

It’s interesting, I’ve since changed my behaviour from buying the flashiest, coolest-looking items to focus on how well they work over how they look. Function over form. Sure, my things are less flashy and uglier, but I see a real charm to them now. It’s also driven me to retro-tech and loving using things that get worn looking and used.

Privacy and anonymity are two different things. Proton doesn’t market themselves as anonymous, they market as a privacy service, as you said. And as for the info given to gov’ts, they were legally required to do so. No company, including Mullvad, will break the law for you. Mullvad/IVPN/AirVPN, etc, will all abide by law and give up info if required.

I’d imagine that will be the first thing to be torn down if the US ever gets their govt back. There’s no way of knowing how many listening devices/spyware has been built into that thing.

Never heard of Droidian, but I’ve been loooking into the status of Linux phones lately. Mind giving a run down of your experience with it?

Is it though? Seems to me it’s more or less just don’t be a dick, don’t judge, and treat others how you want to be treated. Aside from the magic, JC seems like a pretty average bar to aspire to.

Was gonna mention this. Cuts about half of each film into one 4 hour film, and is incredibly well done imo. I watch it a few times a year, if it didn’t exist I don’t think I would have rewatched the trilogy at all.

I created a new account a year ago to lurk instead of comment, but you’re right, participation = growth. I’ll be joining in again.