You just need to be moderator of a sub, so just make one

Yup, I’m in the same situation

Boost for reddit still works fine

The number is :D

I, too, am tired of the constant pessimism. Almost everything is improving all the time.

On Lemmy it seems the biggest crisis is Google trying to make money off user data (as they always have been). Some people legitimately need to go outside and stop measuring world health by what mass media is currently telling them.

Big parts of Europe has. I pay about €17 for unlimited 5G.

I have wifi at home of course but I still mostly use cellular cus it’s faster lol

Same in Denmark. It was 15 until recently. We also held the record for teenage drinking for a long time, and still hold “most average alcohol per session” or something.

Yet we are statistically one of the “happiest” countries in the world. And take the most antidepressants!

The result of this is that all drinking Swedes just have a huge storage of alcohol at home though.

They also frequently drive all the way to Germany (through Denmark) to shop duty-free drinks in bulk.

Scandinavian countries have “pant” on bottles and cans, meaning you pay extra for the container, but get the money back when you return it empty.

I saw a video of someone teaching himself to like celery, and coerced my girlfriend to do the same - it works!

You literally just start by nibbling a bit every day and start eating more and more as you can handle it. She loves celery now, to the point where she just eats it raw as snacks.

Whether it’s worth the apparent torture is up to you. To be frank, picky eaters give me second hand embarrassment when out dining, since you can teach yourself to like basically everything. Usually it’s just people who didn’t get much variety as children.

Only played the first one which was pretty good. It’s super big on character customization as it has a million race/class combinations. A bit more extreme than the rest

DOS 1 and 2 were almost on par with BG3 imo.

Pillars of Eternity was also really good.

But in reality it’s just a bunch of neckbeards with 100 reddit accounts each and a script to paint a bitmap

Those are some cute specs, I like em small

In my understanding, the metrics tracked by just having Google Play services are pretty minimal.

It’s more like an API between your phone and apps you install through it, and the permission system for apps has improved immensely over the past 5-10 years. As I see it, it’s more like a firewall.

If you don’t want Google to know which apps you use and how much, you can go full custom, but that’s a bit too much tinfoil for me.

The tracking is mostly from web browsing. If you use Google Chrome, of course you can expect to be tracked based on browser history, cookies, etc., like most other browsers.

If I wanna do something in private, obviously I won’t use Chrome or a builtin browser.

There are lots of privacy oriented Android flavors out there. Most of them won’t come with Google Play services installed. Any of them will be able to run any apps you need.

In my opinion, Google isn’t bad at all when it comes to tracking and bloatware. They’re much like Apple. It’s the branded phones like Samsung that are absolutely horrible.

Anyway, check out the LineageOS Wiki: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

It can give a quick overview of the devices which can easily install a custom ROM (OS). I heard good things about Fairphone

Genocide or bukkake?