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There's literally an app does let's you wipe your phone for a period of not unlocking your phone (Its called "Wasted" available on Fdroid), so there has to be one that could do a reboot (without the wipe), right? 🤔

(If not, can anyone of you try to make one? I'm kinda jealous of Apple having that feature built in to iPhones. 😓)

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  • Meh, I don't live in NYC, that's why idontgiveashit. I'm already outta there. Unless you got a time machine to find me at the moment I took the pic, its not really a "dox".

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    What sensory thing(s) annoy you?
  • Store Music

    I hate it.

    Holiday music. Too repetitive.

    A crowd talking.

    Basically, it can be summed up as, TOO MUCH FUCKING NOISE

    (I just want some silence 🥲)

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    How do we know that governments don't just have a secret hardware backdoor in all our devices?
  • you have to do it by broadcasting in the clear using an unbreakable cypher that’s been physically passed on.

    Time for One Time Cipher?

    Very impractical, but unbreakable, assuming no one else got a copy of the key, and its destroyed after a single use.

    Dice rolls for code generation.

    Take that, big gov!

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  • Meh, too much people, don't like it.

    I have germaphobia in case you wanna understand why.

    More people = More filth (especially the crooked Adams) 🤮

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    Greenland PM reiterates ‘we are not for sale’ after Trump suggests US ownership
  • Lol, Putin is technically sitting legitimately.

    Russia limits to 2 consecutive terms. Meaning, you take a 1 term break, and the term limits reset. Putin had 2, 4 year terms, then, he become prime minister for 4 years, and transferred the powers to the office of prime minister shortly before he took that office, then 4 years later, he is eligible to be president again, and transferred the powers back to the office of presidency just before he took that office. Basically, whether or no the President or Prime Minister is more powerful can be tossed around whenever.

    This actually has a term for it: Medvedev–Putin tandemocracy

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    A warning about locked devices (F you Verizon)
  • Carrier lock exist to prevent people from just deciding to not paying their installment plan on their phone and move to another carrier. (Some people can't afford to buy their phone outright, I guess... I'm not sure 🤷‍♂️)

    Also, some carrier-locked version of phones are cheaper than the unlocked versions. You can get a cheap $50 prepaid Samsung or Motorola phone that would be locked to a carrier (these are basically in every Walmart, Target, practically every store that sells a variety of stuff), but the unlocked version would cost like $150-$200.

    Bestbuy also sometime have deals where the locked version is like $100-$200 cheaper.

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  • Any Generators, Power Banks, Solar Panels, etc...?

    Edit: So I'm gonna answer my own question. I'll probably freak out and would have zero generators to deal with it. Heater is Gas, but I don't know if gas would work during power outage. Cooking, well there's a butane burner stove. I have 3 10000mah batteries, but they have 60% efficiency due to power loss during transfer, so its effectively 6000mah, enough to roughly charge my 5000mah battery once, 3 batteries is 3-4 charges. Then I'd be bored with zero entertainment, along with all the food melting and going bad, very not fun 🙃

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    Reddit doesnt let me delete my account.
  • uBlock origin is constantly getting updated tho, maybe a new update was more aggressive in blocking trackers and blocked the button from functioning.

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    What's stopping corporate authoritarians from instantly shutting down all left-wing Internet content? Shouldn't we be preparing for that?
  • Most democratic countries have "rule of law" (its getting eroded in the US, but still...), and people have the expectation of the government not censoring things. Besides, VPN and Tor can bypass restrictions, so its a futile attempt with a huge backlash, and if VPN and Tor are banned too, I'm pretty sure there are people, both left of center and right of center are not gonna be happy about that. Magats might not care about "leftist" sites being banned, but they'll start worrying if they are next, and once you do a VPN and Tor ban too, oh I'm sure they'll be throwing a fit like those anti-mask protests, this time with with both left and right wing people in unity. Yea, maybe its not a good idea to get people united across the spectrum.

    Like, many democratic countries (particularly, western democratic countries) can't even get people to wear masks, or vaccinate, or even just stay at home, even when its a reasonable thing to do. Internet censorship is gonna cause riots, this time, with not just right-wing nut jobs, but people across the political spectrum.

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  • Just morbid questions. I mean I'm not some CEO, just an averge person. Just wondered how seriously is my death even gonna be investigated. (Or is nobody even gonna care, like how my parents probably won't even care if I died)

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    Reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1hkpjkk/luigi_mangione_pleads_not_guilty_to_murdering/

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    Edit: Changed "the government" to "governments"

    I mean, people say use end to end encryption, VPN, Tor, Open Source Operating System, but I think one thing missed is the hardware is not really open source, and theres no practical open source alternative for hardware. There's Intel ME, AMD PSP, so there's probably one in phones. How can people be so confident these encryption is gonna stop intelligence agencies?

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    I mean, I as an average person thought about this tactic, I'm sure some project 2025 people also though about it. I mean, denaturalization have to go through courts, destroying naturalization records could just be an executive order. I mean, they don't even need to destroy it, just order the records to be "relocated for security purposes" then "oopsie, they got caught on fire during transport". Once thats done, any of the citizens copies would get dismissed as fake and mass deportations could proceed...

    I hope I'm just being a "doomer", and pray it doesn't happen.

    Edit: I already have photos of my certificate of citizenship, but still... if they just start burning records, they can just dismiss my copy as fake. 😖

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    I mean, like, every time something happens, like election results, coups in other countries, dictator gets overthrown by rebels, some corporate ceo getting shot, etc..., I say "hmm, what an interesting timeline I'm on" like half joking as a reference to time travel Movies/TV, but its also kinda half serious.

    I mean like, I think about the Cold War and the two famous nuclear close-calls (Cuban Missile Crisis with Vasily Arkhipov, and the Radar False Alarm incident with Stannislav Petrov) amongst many other less-known nuclear close-calls, and I just think, there's no way we should've survived those, like if each incident was a 50%/50% of ending in a nuclear war, then amonst that many close-calls, like 9 out of 10 timelines would've been the end of the world. Like it doesn't really make sense for the world be a non-many worlds type with many different possibilities, cuz we'd be dead from nuking ourselves.

    So we just got lucky with ending up on the 1 in every 10 timelines where the world didn't end. And it seems like out luck has ran out since... I mean look at how the world is dealing with climate change, no country seem to care much, USA just elected a climate change denial party.

    So I mean, don't y'all think this "different timelines" thing make sense?

    (Basically what I'm asking is, Many-Worlds Theory? Do you believe that, Yes or No?)

    (Sorry if this makes no sense, IDK how to express thoughts properly 😅)

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    Or does it only count upvote only?

    I searched lemmy and can't find the answer. Lemmy documentation also didn't specify.

    Edit: Sorry didn't really wanna make a whole post about it, but like my curiosity can't stand not knowing every detail of Lemmy. I want to know this so I know how to sort Lemmy better

    Follow up Question: Which sorting method do y'all think is the best?

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    I mean, I read news articles that say the TSA fail to actually catch prohibited items like weapons or drugs most of the time... so what's the point? Many people are calling this "Security Theater"... Does this "Security Theater" actually scare away a would-be terrorist?

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    cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33665562

    > I'm young enough to be on my parents' health insurance plan, they have enough funding to pay for copays/deductibles (it's not really a money issue, is what I'm trying to say). But my parents (especially my mother), opposes medication and tells me I need to "Just Go Outside". > > So, I wonder how long before I kms... > > 🙃

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    Parents are against medications... 🙃

    I'm young enough to be on my parents' health insurance plan, they have enough funding to pay for copays/deductibles (it's not really a money issue, is what I'm trying to say). But my parents (especially my mother), opposes medication and tells me I need to "Just Go Outside".

    So, I wonder how long before I kms...

    🙃

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    https:// www.reddit.com /r/drones/comments/1hgwrpl/actually_you_know_what_screw_it_im_out/

    [Edit: New Moderation Team has since been installed by Reddit]

    I mean, I totally get it. People keep posting (according the the mod) stuff like "DRONES ARE SPYING ON ME", of course, who'd want to moderate that shit? I'm glad the user decided to quit, and not have to babysit weirdos spamming conspiracy theories. (Its unpaid anyways, why even do it if the conspiracy-therory-filled community doesn't appreciate it)

    Welp, that's a subreddit shutdown I haven't seen for a while. Good luck to whoever is next to deal with weird conspiracy shit.

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    Warning: angry rant below

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    So I lost lost the Username and Passwords to all my 3 credit bureau accounts, and also the email account, this appened like earlier this year, (or maybe last year not sure... anyways...). I didn't bother resetting at the time since I didn't need to get a credit card or loan or anything.

    But today I decided to reset those accounts to check my credit. So I started with calling Experian to try to reset the account. So right away, I'm already mildly annoud that a fucking automated voice Bot took the call and then on top of that, they fucking played a fake "keyboard typing" sound to mimic a human typing on a keyboard after every response 🤦‍♂️, like yo I know its a bot, stop with this BS. So it asks what I need help with, "accessing account", okay it asks for SSN and zip code, okay gave that, then this bot just sent a reset to my email, WHICH I DONT HAVE ACCESS TO!!!, okay no problem, I'll just talk to a person, "talk to a representative", okay this is the most infuriating part, bot says "I'M SORRY, I'M ONLY ABLE TO DO THAT IN LIMITED CIRCUMATANCES" (paraphrased, I don't remember the exact wording)... excuse me what the fuck, this audacity of this fucking bot, I say it again, but the only 2 options are "continue" with the automatic self-help system, or "end call"... MOTHERF****R 🤬🤬🤬

    Jesus Fucking Christ, who gave these stupid "Credit Bureaus" their authority?

    I see a future of:

    "Hello 911, please send an ambulance, I'm dying."

    Bot: "Sorry, not blood detected, unable to dispatch an ambulance"

    dude was having a heart attack, of course no blood was detected

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    Not sure if this is the correct place to post, but I just wanna kinda rant a bit.

    I'm not the only one that hates this, right?

    An app can just do a "This App Does Not Allow Screenshots"? Like... wtf?

    Like, its my phone, and some app can just decide to disable a fuction of my phone. It's my phone and if I wanna take a screenshot, I'm taking a screenshot. I don't care about whatever "security" the app developer wants.

    Imagine if every online shopping app whether fast food or amazon, just used this to block you from taking a screenshot so you can't save the records in case of a dispute.

    Which android developer thought it was a good idea to let an app disable a function on your phone. Even iPhone doesn't have this stupid concept.

    Sorry for the rant.

    Anyone wanna share your stories?

    (P.S. I have a cheap secondary phone to take photos of the screen. "This App Does Not Allow Screenshots" my ass lmao, I'm taking the screenshot whether the app wants it or not.

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    I'm NOT the parent in question. Just a FYI.

    And by mental capacity, I mean like not just IQ, but also other mental conditions like depression, ADD/ADHD, etc...

    Like the child(ren) has not done anything wrong like crime or misbehave, but simply the parent thinking that giving an inhertance to (in their view) a "mentally disabled" child is a waste and "would just end up in the hands of government". And they justify it since they think that "the kid can just get disability income anyways". (Location is USA, for reference)

    I personally think this is just very ableist... what do you think? Is it okay for parents to do that?

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    (Has anyone posted this yet?)

    Obligatory: I didn't create this, I #yaRRR'ed 🏴‍☠️ it from the other site

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