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smeeps

@ smeeps @lemmy.mtate.me.uk

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  • Ahead of Android 15's launch, Android 14 is on at least 13% of active devices

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  • This is tricky. Luckily mine works on custom ROMs so I've not had to fool safetynet for a while.

    Does it still trip if you install a custom ROM and relock the bootloader, without rooting? I know there used to be packages to hide you had root and keep safetynet

  • linux as business/ company pc?

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  • Depends, every tech company I've worked at has had Windows machines for project managers, account managers etc, and Mac for developers and designers. So it is possible to support two OSs as standard. I've always just picked the Mac but when my next laptop is due I may ask if anyone uses Linux

  • Ahead of Android 15's launch, Android 14 is on at least 13% of active devices

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  • As time goes on you'll be exposed to more and more security vulnerabilities with no patches.

    Nothing wrong with running an old phone but you should unlock it and put Lineage OS on or similar.

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    Stonehenge tunnel scheme scrapped by government

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  • It would move the queues to the next bottleneck. "Just one more lane bro" planning never works.

    Rail between London and Cornwall needs improving instead, as does local transport around Salisbury (active travel, public transport) as a large portion of the queuing vehicles are local drivers avoiding congestion in the town.

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  • Authy is trash anyway.

  • Decided to start paying predominantly cash again

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  • Probably vaguely similar from when I've visited

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  • Tesco now even has stores in the UK where you scan your loyalty card on the way in, pick up items off shelves, and walk out and it charges you accurately. The amount of cameras and sensors on the ceiling was uncanny. So not only do they have your purchasing profile but they now know what you look like, your gait, and any other identifying information they use to make that work

    (OK it might be just lads in the Philippines following you on CCTV like Amazon did but still)

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  • As an aside, this is why I recently degoogled, having been all in on Google products for 10 years. 10 years ago you got amazing value for your data from Google but now every single useful product has been enshittified or shut down and they collect more data than ever. The sums just don't add up any more.

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  • Indeed. Its very uncommon to get flat cashback options in the UK for this reason. I think I had AmEx that gave me 1% for a year and nothing after that.

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  • This is one thing the UK is really good for, all bank owned ATMs and most public ones are completely free to use for any cardholder of any bank. My bank doesn't even have physical branches but I can still use the ATM of any bank lobby for free. There are some paid ones run by private companies but the fee is usually a flat £1-2 max. I've been to ATMs in Europe that have tried to charge me something like 10EUR to take out 30.

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  • It's a private contract between the business and the customer, you are supposed to ensure you have means to pay beforehand.

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  • Interesting, we have £50 notes in the UK but they essentially don't exist for most people. No cash machines will give you one, and shopkeepers mistrust them, although generally accept. 20s are the highest people deal with here usually.

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  • That's actually illegal in the UK, to charge a fee for card use. Just means everyone pays more in increased prices, although most people in the UK use card for everything so for the population as a whole its probably a money saver, if not a privacy saving policy.

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  • This decision was helped by moving to GrapheneOS and losing Google Pay, definitely. (And Degoogling for other reasons at the same time). If I have to carry a card I may as well carry cash, a few folded notes are the same footprint as a card and as I mentioned, I try not to break notes if I don't have to, so I'm not carrying change often.

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  • Anyone in a 14 eyes country is essentially impossible to achieve zero footprint, but assuming they're not actively looking into your network packets or searching for you on CCTV its feasible to have a relatively low footprint. I'm essentially trying to eliminate as far as practical, any data points I'm just giving away for free for no reason, especially to corporations and advertisers.

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  • Least edgy libertarian. Hope you don't like driving on roads or using the internet fibres

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  • No, same in the UK. How could you force them to take cash if they don't want to?

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  • I'm interested in this, I did buy a small amount but struggling to spend it anywhere? Even when I bought a Trezor hardware wallet I had to use LTC... I know I can pay for Mullvad with it when my subscription expires in two years lol

    I also can't find any no-KYC place to buy it now LocalMonero is closed.