Can someone summarise the story. God damn that was a long read and lost interest. What I gathered, Jimmy claimed a robbery of his bitcoins, who then transpired to be the robber?

Zero use case. Nostalgia is reliving youth, not re-engineering it to be modern variant.

As a premium subscriber for many years, I and my family really get value. I do pay in UAH though.

Chrome does have a use, namely Selenium and automation.

I’m guilty of having Chrome on my PC, as I need to nerf over my favourites to Firefox.

Firefox is my browser of choice on my Google Pixel 7, but then again no doubt it makes little difference.

I just choose to use a VPN, so any targeted adverts are blocked regardless of the profile built up from my browsing habits.

The sad fact, is as a consumer we’re not protected from such draconian downright middle-aged fuckery with the transparency of who ultimately makes your gismo.

Like food ingredients, every consumer item should clearly include the underlying manufacturer. Then as consumers we can then choose when it comes to purchasing and selectively have an impact by boycotting these companies.

Hon Hai Precision the parent company manufactures ~40% of all consumer electronics that make choice for certain products alternative (if ethically better) difficult. Hon Hai are on my DO NOT BUY.

Absolute shame on all involved including Apple for their lack of governance (note any action is always retrospective, never proactive) over their contractors. This ain’t the first time and will not be the last.

Any one of the three British companies pitching.

Oh yeah, and fuck Bill Gates ya lizard

Good. Now let’s put the tender to a BRITISH company. British pound paying a British company, with British jobs and tried and tested British engineers. Did I mention British?

Rather a converted van, cheaper and serves two purposes as can guarantee that $700 does not include parking.

Interesting to see Switzerland on the approved list. Always the accommodating nation.

Wow, how stupid/petty is that. Borderline childish activity “Because you did that I’ll do this…” mentality

It was $8 bro, or £6.5 in Gentlemen coins.

Exactly. A repost is a repost but this guy just Good Will Hunting and “pawned it off as his own”.

Thank you. I’m with you now. I just migrated over because I used Boost on Reddit and received a notification Boost was now available on this new platform 👍

I don’t mean to butt in, but what are those?

What’s the URL, sorry I’m new to Lemmy. Is it Lemmy.World?

Don’t you?

Okay thank you. I use Firefox and duckduckgo for browsing with a VPN, so I do not get any targeted intrusive ads through cookies. But yes, subscriber to YouTube Premium/drive, use Gmail, Photos, Maps etc. Have Google hubs, all connected to my smart plugs, lights etc. So yeah, no point for me 👍

Yes, this or VPNs suppress.

Separate topic, but what are the benefits of Graphene. Assumption like ROMs of old. Not modded my phone in years since Pixel 2, currently Pixel 7 hence not seen the need. When I did root my phone, it was always cat and mouse patching and repatching to allow Android Pay (as it was called) and all my banking apps.