It’s not what you’re looking for, but might be useful: https://github.com/aj3423/SpamBlocker

I use mine as my main number, though I ported away from GV (Project Fi, using GV as the backend) years ago

I said nothing about potentially holding your device - reread the comment you replied to - but they cannot use that as the reason to deny citizens reentry. We can have a discussion about if the administration is following the rules of law, but by law, border agents cannot deny you for this reason.

So hostile, for no reason. Channel that anger into something constructive, yeah?

Also lol if you think anyone here thinks we are in anything close to a utopia, you should switch careers to comedy :p

Straight from the ACLU:

Do I have to provide my laptop passwords or unlock my mobile phone for law enforcement officers at the border?

Customs officers have sometimes asked travelers to provide their laptop passwords or unlock their mobile phones when they are entering or leaving the United States. Your legal status in the country may inform what you decide to do if you’re asked for a password to unlock your device. U.S. citizens cannot be denied entry to the United States for refusing to provide passwords or unlocking devices. Refusal to do so might lead to delay, additional questioning, and/or officers seizing your device for further inspection. The same should be true for those who have previously been admitted to the U.S. as lawful permanent residents and have maintained their status — their green cards can’t be revoked without a hearing before an immigration judge. […]

The reason why you have ‘heard this idea’ is because it’s true :P

https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/what-do-when-encountering-law-enforcement-airports-and-other-ports-entry-us?hl=en-US#do-i-have-to-provide-my-laptop-passwords-or-unlock-my-mobile-phone-for-law-enforcement-officers-at-the-border

*regarding paragraph 1+4: this is true for travelers visiting the US (which is what the article is aimed at but, for clarity), but not returning citizens. They can hold the device, but have to fold and let citizens re-enter.

Also, an alternative to not carrying your device is to just wipe it before boarding/reaching your port of entry. Let them pretend to be Hollywood csi detectives and image a freshly-wiped phone. Then restore from a backup later.

you Americans

so you aren’t American yourself, but you think you know our situation better than us? interesting logic there…

I don’t believe so, no :/

+1 for this, I’ve been using it for what seems like forever now, it’s been solid

Unless I’m grandfathered in or something (I haven’t heard of any price changes), ND is like $20 a year. Is AG like $5 a year or something? o.O

Using ND for 3y now, have not had your issue with loading. Pixel 8 Pro, graphene. Family is also on Pixels, stock, no issues. All on ND, of course.

Yeah, I was like ‘uh, no’. I had to reinstall FH3 well over a dozen times because their updates would break shit and there was no file integrity check system. The store is garbage, no doubt, but let’s keep it to facts yeah.

You get me $10B annually or so, and then we can start to talk. Your single-fiber line and homelab will handle, what, 25 simultaneous users? Just have to scale that to a billion daily users or so, no bigger.

Also yt is “super critical”? Super critical is power for ICU wards and stuff, nobody is going to have a heart failure because they can’t get their daily dose of #shorts. Also gestures at Wikipedia, who is glaring at you.

I think you’re giving yt way, way too much credit, but simultaneously thinking that any one of us has the financial capability to not only have but risk that kind of cash. Companies have tried and failed. Users aren’t doing it, chief.

“that’s it, you’re going to a home”

I don’t argue with people. I’m just right all the time.

Beep boop

commensurate - adjective - corresponding in size or degree or extent

Off-topic but may I ask what is your disability? I am disabled as well after suffering a stroke that I wasn’t supposed to live through, and am passively looking for others like me to game with (I mean anybody is cool but it’d be nice to have others that are in similar situations, for support and stuff). I play racing / shooters / strategy games one-handed, partially blind, with some cognitive struggles.

Thank you :)

The watch cannot, but you can pair it with a pixel running gos. (I have the 1st gen watch, 8 pro, and gos)

How did you go from ‘would you fuck me? I’d fuck me’ to either being a narcissist or into beastiality? Sometimes it’s just really hard (giggity) to find someone who shares your interest in edge play, cbt and castration. And that old saying, ‘if you want something done right…’

Come on, me, we aren’t welcome at this play party.

Typical Tuesday, really.

I dunno, me and my boyfriend have been doing sharing almost every day, and neither of us are pregnant. Taking turns, too… 🤔

Mr Kool-aid man, but with a discord logo on him OHH YEAHHHHH!

“please drink verification can”

The news broke yesterday sooooo

Idk, me and all my friends use discord for vc, plus screenshots and memes while we chat. You can do that in mumble. Not sure about broadcasting or anything (I started a server yesterday after the news broke), maybe there are extensions. Discord is just a means to an end for us.

(yeah yeah but that’s not funny so I ignored it :p)

a number from a song

I’ve got it! 8, 6, 7, 5, 3, 0, 9. Bulletproof, thanks op!

You can technically get that here in the states, but it’s veeeery limited: Redpocket, and a couple of by-the-minute recharge plans afaik. This $6 plan only supplies 300 minutes, and 1gb of data. The typical rate for most people’s service is $50-$60 here (‘unlimited* data, messages, and minutes’), with my main line costing $85 plus bs fees. $6 as a backup/secondary could be a rounding error.

It’s been a couple years so I don’t remember why I wanted out; it might have been concern about renewal, losing the number, or something like that, I just can’t remember. But I’ve been happy with tello, and I remember I had to contact cs once a while back, they got back with me within the day, and I’ve needed no other help. The site is pretty user-friendly, even for porting in/out. Data allotments recently doubled with no charge, which is nice. The number I was assigned doesn’t have any issues with spam, and the price has remained the same (for my plan selection), even when I’ve hopped around on other MVNOs the last few years. It’s a pretty nice place for cell service, assuming your area/tower isn’t strained for data bandwidth.

…its a full cell phone plan?

I used to use that RP plan, and for some reason I decided to switch… and then they took literally 4 months to get back with me with my porting information. I had to try information by other users on /r/nocontract to try and port away myself, which worked. Wouldn’t you know it, the very next day, “oh no we are soooo sorry for the inconvenience, but I see you have ported away successfully” like yes mf what the actual shit were you doing for 120 days that you couldn’t look up two values and email them back?

Tello’s cs is actually quite good.

See above comment =)

Tello. $5 for baseline call service and minutes, unlimited text. $1 for some backup data if my primary carrier doesn’t have service in an area. Runs on the t-mo network. Deprioritized to qci7 so data might not be reliable in areas where they have over-subscribed their towers, but that’s only for data, so it’s a footnote.

I use a ‘burner’ number with a prepaid provider that I pay $6 a month for, for all my “needs your phone number” bullshit. It’s not a true burner since I’m holding it long-term, but it’s a secondary number that I don’t use unless I get a call or message on that number. Keeps my main/‘real’ number safe, from both data breaches and the weird manager at the pizza place or whatever.

Vaultwarden (server) + bitwarden (application, extensions), and save money while getting most enterprise features.

Yeah, brutal take but the graphene pdf reader is absolute trash. Takes forever to render pages, if it ever does, is the definition of bare-bones, and I can’t uninstall it. It’s like the camera - yeah it’s nice that it’s included, now let me rid my system of it and replace it with something actually well fleshed-out and rich with features.

Woo Librewolf getting listed as an option :D

Almost all my others were “other”

Same, Pixel 8 Pro + GrapheneOS + NextDNS, stateside using AT&T, no problems with private DNS

As a user of RedReader since launch a decade+ ago, I dig Thunder. Simple, no bullshit, logical settings.