Completely agree. I’ll never pay for entertainment, with the sole exception of videogames and the rare content creator I want to support. Everything else, I’ll do everything in my power to have offline and backuped so I never lose access.

Not entirely sure yet. I do know that whatever I get, I’ll be installing Linux on it instead of android. I might try out one of those de-googled android copies, but I’m not sure.

I’ve got my eye on the rugged survival phone market though. They seem to have different priorities than everyone else, and it seems to really improve the quality of the phones. I haven’t yet found anything that exactly matches my personal requirements though, and most of them are unpopular enough that Linux support is unlikely to ever happen.

Overall, I’ll probobly have to settle for something less than optimal.

Fair enough. I’ve never been, don’t much like coffee, and I can’t say I ever plan to go there. They don’t sound like the most pleasant of places to relax in.

I don’t think I’ve ever checked, but I can get behind that. I’d rather not die because a company decided to cut corners.

Completely inexcusable. How people can get away with this kind of behaviour is beyond me.

Huh, I didn’t know about that. I only bought mine because they were the only ones the store offered, but I guess I’ll try to find another brand when it comes time to replace them. I’ve been meaning to get a new NAS sometime anyway, so that’s a good excuse as any to do so.

Good enough for me, I’ll avoid them in the future.

Relatable. I’m in a pretty Apple heavy area, so I’m in the minority in my dislike of anything Apple. At least they are easy to avoid, with how obvious they make their branding.

Reasonable. Personally, I never learned how to use a razor, so I just use an electric shaver. It doesn’t give as good a cut, but I’m happy to contribute to a boycott anyway.

Huh, haven’t heard that one before. What did they do?

I’ve never been to one, so continuing that isn’t much of a bother to me anyway

Completely agree on both points. I actually use a Samsung phone, and it’s been nothing but a privacy nightmare. I’m planning to switch as soon as I’ve saved up enough to afford it.

Yeah, Amazon is a mess. I personally avoid anything even tangentially related to them. I’ve noticed that they tend to be lower quality with worse privacy than the alternatives, and their only benefit is price. Even then, Audible is a ripoff on a massive scale.

Sorry, I wasn’t very clear with my reply. I haven’t actually found an app that does this kind of thing very well, just yet. My reply was more in the line of “I wish I had an app to do this, because searching the internet takes forever”.

Some brief searching came up nowhere when I went looking a few hours ago. I did find two apps on Google Play that seemed like they might work, but both had their own blend of issues, and neither was on f-droid, unfortunately. They were “No Thanks” and “Boycott X”, if you want to try them out.

Fair enough. They’re so big I need an app just to keep track of if something’s made by them or not.

Personally, I only drink iced-tea. I just can’t handle bitterness at all, and I prefer cold drinks to hot ones anyway.

I’ve found Peace Tea is the best, but its kinda expensive, so I tend to buy those big tubs of GoodHost IceTea powder and make a jug of the stuff every couple days.

I don’t really keep in contact with my family. They can call if they want, and I do the same, but otherwise, we don’t interact much. I’m definitely glad I stopped using Facebook, personally. I’m not interested in seeing them fall prey to conspiracy after conspiracy and then demand I participate.

Plex, though I do occasionally listen to online radios using my podcast player

I went straight from Processing to Rust. You’d be surprised by just how many skills transfer over! I’ve found that it’s actually easier than other programming languages, aside from doing anything visual. I haven’t figured out how to do the same kind of graphics stuff as i could in processing just yet.

As for use cases? Processing is a learning tool, and it’s great for teaching as well. You can make some pretty great animations using it, and a lot of YouTubers use it internally to animate their math videos.

I’ll list a few that seem interesting to me. I have no idea whether they have religious origins, but they sound cool phonetically.

Felix Soren Ethan Kai Rowan Alex Isaac Levi Nico Kit Anakin River Logan Ari Ian

I don’t know if those names would be appropriate for your area or culture or language or even laws, so I just provided a whole bunch in case a couple aren’t suitable.

Hope this helps.

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