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What if its the police escalating to violence?

You could try your hand at a technical trade, something that involves your skill set. These things cant really be AI'd into oblivion.

• Lighting automation programming
• AV / Audio
• Security technician
• Electrical engineering perhaps?

Just the ones off the top of my head.

This is gold thanks mate

I believe most of those red apps dont require play services to operate, mainly just for push notifications.

If I were you, I'd just use Aurora store in anonymous mode to keep those updated and use a firewall like rethinkDNS to block any potential trackers. I do this for my few apps that arent FOSS and banking etc.

Use web apps installed via vanadium for anything you can to delete the actual apps off your phone alternatively.

Theres a few websites easily searchable for replacing proprietary apps with FOSS you could explore also.

Its generally only corpo backed / play store apps that use play services for push notifs.

Signal > Molly in websocket mode solves the messenger issue.

Proton mail you may be able to set up with a third party service - from memory you cant use any other app.

Proton calendar should be local notifications? Test a reminder out like you did with the timer.

Emergency alerts are done through cell service and are unaffected.

Weather alerts will be dependant on what app you choose but if its FOSS you should be able to use ntfy and unifiedpush or local notifications.

Microsoft authenticator can live in the seperate work profile and realistically doesnt need push notifs - you will open it yourself to log in to shit when needed.

Call and SMS are unaffected - not push notifs.

Timers, Alarms etc are unaffected - local notifs.

Home assistant is designed to consolidate all the seperate parts of your smart home through integrations etc. Local notifications can be set up through the companion app for whatever your requirements.

I use home assistant on gOS without play services and notifications via whatever means I have set up are instant and cause no significant battery drain.

Ill check to see what my setup is and report back.

Edit:

It is the persistant web socket.

Arguably the few websockets I have running for various apps use less battery than play services.

Home assistant barely shows up in my battery usage when in the background.

Top one is pine, bottom one looks like oak?

Not even the same timber if so. Pine is softwood Oak is hardwood.

I have a weird switcheroo situation. My family came across no worries but my friend group, nobody switched.

I deleted all the meta bullshit a while back and went 100% signal, let everyone know where they could reach me and so far 1 person has contacted me via signal (in about 6 months). Feels kind of shit tbh.

Still cant understand why people stay on those platforms full of ads and horrible UI when soooo much better alternatives are out there.

Just in case no one has said it, Pixelfed

It is a painful road to get people to use even signal.

I basically gave ultimatums that:

A) I will only be contactable via signal / sms / call / email (signal obviously being the easiest option)

B) I would only send pics of my kid over signal

Family changed straight away because they wanted to see pics of kid.

A couple friends changed to signal but never really used it. Then after trying to organise an event over email they conceded that it would be easier on signal, while giving me shit for it, then admitting after using it that its good, while still giving me shit for it.

Blows my mind that these people will download a random spyware riddled fast food app for a chance at a free chips but then when its one of the most useful, reputable and secure communication apps you can get its "I dont want to have so many random apps on my phone"

Make it make sense please.

Curious as to your situation?

Not calling it out is akin to not calling out anything else unethical.

See a parent hitting their child? Shut up and move along.

AI data center being built in your neighbourhood? SHUT UP, JUST DONT USE IT.

Someone littering on your street? Stop whinging, just ignore it and it will eventually blow in to the ocean - all good!

If no one speaks up, then it just gets worse. Protest is fundamental to pushing back against the horse shit that corpos try and push down our throats every day. Someone less informed may take the lack of negative comments towards AI slop as it being OK and normal when it clearly isnt, therefore adding to the problem.

Hard disagree with your opinion and I think it comes across as corpo cuckery so you get an upvote I guess.

Fuck pokies, they've destroyed what pubs once were.

This reads like my childhood internal monologue, thank you for the walk down memory lane.

You only ever get to play OSRS innocently / for the first time once.

This is definitely an unpopular opinion.

I tend to listen to music for how it feels, not just how it sounds, and if I even suspect a track is AI made I feel like someones trying to shovel dog shit into my mouth.

I guess you could equate it to you eating food just for the taste, but I eat food for the taste, smell and nutritional value.

Throwing cigarette butts on the ground.

That made me angry

How is the power wired exactly? It looks like youve piggy backed off each cable before it, meaning the first cable is carrying the load from all after it which it usually isnt designed to do, should be fine if appropriately rated to the equipment.

Looks mint!

Yes. Once you see the shit you get off your tongue you can never return to before.