Holding onto my 2016 van with zero telemetry for as long as possible.
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.
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.
Plenty of cash only businesses in the UK that engage in this, although of course just because a business is cash only, doesn't mean they're a tax dodge.
IMO the two things are separate: it should be the tax office that does audits to catch this. It's not very hard to see a vape shop that makes £500 a month with two top model BMWs outside might be dodgy.
Yes, even the buses and vending machines and car park meters and public toilets have tap to pay. It is certainly very convenient but I think it does encourage spending more, and of course it means literally everything you do is tracked. Luckily I've found that most places still do accept cash but there are definitely a few who don't.
Invidious will show you related videos to the one you're watching but not the suggested tab of YouTube. I see it as a good thing though, I really don't need another black box algorithm controlling me.
Then they enforce the chipmakers to put backdoors in the chips themselves
I really want to buy a Fairphone but even the new one would be a downgrade from my P7Pro at a high price.
Hoping they can make the next one a bit more competitive with current flagships.
As a web dev we do try to accommodate userCSS for accessibility reasons but often font sizes are tuned to what they are for a reason. I'd guess there's a line height issue here.
Why not both? I'm not lacking in storage on either the USB or the phone.
As far as I know it can't be done.
Look at the watches on here: https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/
I have Amazfit Balance and it works very well, all the data is locally synced to my phone, none of it goes to Google or China.
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Google Pixels with GrapheneOS were the only Android phones to withstand the backdoor software the FBI used to access the Trump shooter's phone.