Not sure, for GasBuddy still work even though you don't have any Google Services? I know Hushed, Traccar, and 1 other I forget, won't work, so I doubt GB would work without at least MicroG.

You could maybe make a separate profile in that phone with microG so you at least could test?? I don't know of Adblock would be enough, I'd be more worried about port scanning or invisible trackers.

Yeah I do about a tank a week and use premium (US 92-93 octane), so it matters as it's a lot more expensive than other areas. I've noticed around Chicago, premium goes for $1-1.20 more per gallon, but if I travel to other areas like Indianapolis, St Louis, etc, its only maybe $.50 more (though it's been a while since I've been in Indy).

Anyway, with a 19gal tank, that's a big amount over time. If I save $.25/gal, that might only be $5/fill up, but in a month it's $20+. I also seek the better 93 octane since technically 91-while "premium" doesn't give me as good of mileage or power either.

Consisting you're not on the Privacy page, or Piracy page, or even Self-Hosted or FOSS... I guess that depends on how well the service works combined with the cost and quality vs comparable services.

Personally, Apple is too closed an ecosystem, too expensive, not private enough, and too far behind in features offerings. I'll likely never own an Apple product. I like the Free and Open Source Softwares, they offer solid features, customizations, privacy and control over your data.

Fuck that!!! Time to get cash from atm and go buy one just to have it

1. Provider doesn't matter. I'm paying $6/mo for a Snikket instance, and $5/mo for a phone number from jmp.chat.

2. You can use any of them, Jabber, conversations, Snikket, cheogram, Prosody, etc. Xmpp works regardless of host. You could host your own and so task to people from other servers, it's almost like an email address or how Lemmy instances can see and talk.

3. Correct, you don't have to host your own server, but like I said I do for friends and family.

You could test it out if you like, most servers have free sign ups. Cheogram I think lists several that're open too. You can text other xmpp users as well as SMS-though be mindful no encryption is used for SMS. Just TLS but that's obv not e2ee.

Ouch, not the first time for LastPass, probably not the last. Found info, they had 7 breaches total since 2011?? Ouch, that's almost every other year!

https://thebestvpn.com/statistics/how-many-times-has-lastpass-been-hacked/

Couldn't I just run for president and abuse my "power" like Trump, but instead of doing lots of bad I could do good? Id start by making all these executive orders to raise wealth taxes, ban invasive technologies, limit social media influence, or big tech's reach into buying out politicians, etc...

Think Robin Hood but on a presidential scale.

Yeah, seeing how they wouldn't offer secret service to RFK Jr when he ran for the short time, I'd certainly be SOL. I'd imagine I get the ol' Russian "threw myself out the window" treatment or some other suicide thing..

Hah, I was about to comment that there's no doubt some fine print in there that does still allow a shell company to buy, so while the book looks great, the story is shit!

Its terrible how the auto industry responds with "we'll install pedestrian sensors with auto braking" instead of trimming back the massive sizes and 50% bigger blind spots. And go figure they cost about the same to make, yet charge so much extra money... No wonder the avg vehicle is over $50k, cuz trucks and SUVs have surpassed 70k on avg smh.

No, but in a rollover, your massive truck or SUV is very heavy. That's why pillars have increased so much.

Congrats! I drive various equipment at work, is pretty fun when I get to do so. Even cooler (in a way) we're looking into automated forklifts to work overnights to help stock and sort inventory, and I'm the one going to the tech shows and meeting with vendors discussing all this stuff. Still kind of surreal, very cool tech.

This sounds stupid, but it talks about privacy and flexibility of various connections, but if you integrated over internet or WiFi, wouldn't the packet conversion setup be problematic including metadata for its destination? How else unless you had some sort of converting device at the receiving end, which then has IP address and other potentially identifiable into attached, even if there message is encrypted.

What real benefit does RNode have over Meshtastic or Meshcore?

Just seems like a "too good to be true" type deal.

You can knock it, IDC. I think honesty in politics is definitely needed

I second this!! Meshtastic would be great for the small group and functions without a gateway or central server!

Wait-Trump is going to jail?! Lol jk, but only kind of. Nobody vandalized it besides the incompetent workers he hired. Not that they're dumb, just that they didn't have the proper know-how, and I'm sure some of that $$ was funneled back to him.

Makes sense. I'm outside the dense area, and looking at the meshcore map there's 2 repeaters a few miles in either direction so it'd be nice to expand the network

But meshtastic would still be beneficial too for family nearby

No, haven't tried, it talks about this being better for xfce and not Cinnamon (Mint) or Mate (Ubuntu).

What would it take to keep it alive? A Hetzner VPS, a reasonable self-hosting?

I've got some resources available, plenty of bandwidth, and could possibly help out depending on needs. I also don't know much about hosting fediverse stuff, but I do have some of my own stuff and services I host already.

I can't use Rustdesk unattended mode on Ubuntu or Mint 😭. I've tried reverting to X11 to no avail.