You are absolutely correct, you got both of them right!

After 3 years of using MacOS as a main OS, I am more than convinced it was indeed the intention.

Say whatever you want, Snowden’s a fucking hero for sharing this.

This might be what you are looking for.

And in some states something like this can be the first car for some 16-years-old. You don’t even need any special licenses to drive this monstrosity, imagine how many lives are being wasted because there is no proper regulation in place. Guys, you have to do something with it, it’s not just your safety, it’s the safety of everyone around you!

There’s a FOSS companion app for AirPods on Android and some features are “locked” until you press “Activate” and choose “I’ve spent all of my money on AirPods” as a payment method.

All I can recommend is to delete all the fingerprints and just use the PIN at this point.

It should be the same fingerprint reader across the whole lineup, so I dont know what’s happened to yours. Mine works fine, not as fast as some ultrasonic counterparts, but I have no issue with that coming from iPhone Xs.

I get it, I have a similar situation, except since I came back to Android I have been nothing but happy.

I used to be into running custom stuff on Android before my switch to an iPhone. And I, too, have found it frustrating to be forced to respect Apple’s rules.

Now, however, I have a Pixel 7 and it’s been a perfect experience so far. Running the stock OS non-rooted, it finally feels like my phone.

To put it simply, a “custom ROM” in this context means a modified version of Android. Many of these versions are based on AOSP (Android Open-Source Project), which is still maintained by Google, but is in fact open-source and doesn’t include Google services. Therefore, there is a possibility to use Android phones (given you have one with unlockable bootloader) without any Google apps or account.

Trust me, if you care about what’s happening to Google and YouTube right now, you won’t love what has been happening to Apple and it’s products for the last decade or so.

It shouldn’t have been a while

My bank doesn’t require a physical card and I don’t have it, checkmate xD

Yeah, I don’t get why you’rr getting downvoted, I completely agree with you. Once you’ve tried it, there’s no coming back, that’s why microG and other workarounds exist.

Great to hear that! I am very tempted to try Calyx, especially now that it has A14 builds for panther. Do you use GPay by any chance? If so, does it work consistently throughout updates?

Exactly what I am facing right now. I consider myself a privacy-concious person, but there is just no way of getting some things working consistently with open-source ROMs. The only major factor for me is GPay, which has become the only way I pay for things nowadays.

They’ve been doing it for years, but in slightly different ways. Chances are you remember one of their numerous pathetic attempts to prevent switching from their spyware.