The only exchange I can think of might be Pancake Swap, but I’m not sure. You could trade coin with anyone who gets theirs from actual miners. I think this is probably the only way to fully avoid KYC.

I would not pay for a VPN, personally.

I sort of bundled that under the law of morals that I’m realizing I really meant, yeah.

That doesn’t justify me breaking it, though. It’s a separate matter.

Malware risk and just wanting to abide by the law?

Yeah, that’s super-creative; I would never have thought of that.

… because we shouldn’t need to in the first place!

If they truly didn’t care about this then they would probably mention, like, Matrix or something

Yes, the giants always win.

(/s… sort of…)

For some banks, like Ally, you don’t need the app to transact in Zelle. But yeah, I must have one for check-depositing.

I’ve never heard of Fairphone and have only barely heard of DivestOS.

Sure. The point still stands that Signal does take GV numbers, so the article writer is wrong.

Let’s talk about banks.

Let’s talk about all the vaults and their maintenance, the security guards, the Brinks armored cars, all the tellers, wire transaction-handling, and so on and so on.

No, gee, hmm, they’ve never calculated how much a vast, global expense all of this is per second.

Maybe they want you to keep believing that it’s more efficient.

And sometimes they don’t work at all (that was my experience when I tried using a Google Voice number to sign up for Signal).

I’ve been using a GV number with no problem all this time. 🤷🏻‍♂🤨

Interesting, thanks for sharing. I wonder if anyone has made a fork of it that does.

Clever engineers.

Dang… yep, experiencing the same… Finally. It had lasted for so long…

*sets reminder now*

I don’t think it’s Nextcloud competition so much as Google Drive competition, which is certainly closed-source.

cars nowadays put their owners under surveillance

There are websites that compare the invasiveness of different cars. Old cars are fine, but getting away from automobiles is still good when possible.

Zelle is the closest acceptable alternative to PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App.

Is Vencord superior to Discord in the web browser?

EDIT: Never mind; it has browser extensions! https://vencord.dev/download/