I avoid installing anything that isn’t in F-Droid or Accrescent for spying concerns with a couple exceptions I Obtainium, so no banking apps. And yeah, notifications would be nice, but ideally FOSS privacy respecting apps will get better about actively seeking updates like a 90’s email client. Afaik, all push notification schemes that exist allow Google or whoever is the provider to read all notifications that go through that in the clear, which seems baaaad!

The oligarchs don’t realize the social democracy WAS the compromise. The alternative is general strikes and war in the streets, not “we just get to keep all the money and make you serfs again”

Graphene on a Pixel Tablet is great, and Orion Viewer on FDroid is a passable, albeit not ideal comic reader (it does tend to not do certain cbz’s at random for some reason tho)

Have you had a good experience? I’ve considered this exact setup, but obviously this post gives me pause…

Because the working class base without which we electorally eat shit ala 2016 and 2024 didn’t attend an elite liberal arts college?

It’s basically even the same flag with a color and ethno-symbol swap

How is this not The Onion?

The master race shall not be questioned!

I would check your assumptions about the price of a large external drive versus monthly seedbox fees on an indefinite timeframe for equivalent storage. If a hard drive doesn’t fail almost out of the gate, it runs for a long time for free, and monthly fees never go down.

You’ve apparently never said anything the Cheney Dems on .world or CCP worshippers on here dislike. I get mass downvoted every time I mention an inconvenient truth for either group. (cue the downvotes, I THRIVE on this shit you fucking party line sheep, make my day)

They got their wish for a Fox/Talk radio level media echo chamber for the DNC… which then led to it being corruptly hijacked by a bunch of PR executives for profit, who don’t give a shit about winning, just not being yelled at by hippies while they profit.

Avoiding the advertising panopticon is your most actionable defense against the state’s panopticon.

An Android TV situation that you degoogle (you can remove a bunch of the Google tracking and ads via Android’s debug interface) would probably be better than either, and Android has EVERY app you can dream of. I’d suggest a linux box, but I assume you want a remote and I’ve never been able to swing a good remote situation on linux.

Oil markets are weird, it seems, and something about different refineries for different oil. It does strike me as odd that we import massive quantities of Canadian oil that’s prone to explode while also exporting massive quantities, but that’s what the official numbers say 🤷‍♂️

Given that the DNC booted the entire scumbag left in exchange for the Cheney clan, I wouldn’t expect that… How is a labor left podcast supposed to save the rightwing Fetterman/Suozzi/Torres/Cheney party? The DNC isn’t even fake labor coded anymore.

True, the refineries would be an issue, but I don’t think anyone has thought through what halting all construction is going to do to a housing market with a $24k/year national average to make rent already.

Arguably accurate on the oil front as the US net exports, but the housing crisis is gonna get real bad after the price of lumber triples, ending all construction…

What leads you to think Genocide Joe or Kamala would be pushing back against this? Also, the 2k bomb thing under Biden was about OUR capacity to have enough of those, there was never a real pause because industrial capacity never lapsed afaik. Genocide Joe asked Reagan to kill more children in Lebanon in the 80’s. He LOVED every drop of blood he bled from a quarter million or more Palestinians, his only regret is he didn’t get more non-jew child blood.

Oh shit, not sanctions! Have Trump no mercy? The US sanctions have already led to… a possible decade down the line banking crisis via Russia overlending to metalurgists…

I’d be shocked if they block VPN. Virtually nobody uses tor for work but every company with decent opsec requires VPNs for SOMETHING potentially