Lukecis @ Lukecis @lemmy.world

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Sounds useful, albeit probably spyware ridden but what isnt these days eh?

I might look into using that for at least google's services.

Well, to be honest I had no idea that cheap phones like that existed.

Besides costs though the main reason I dont decide to get a phone is just due to all the data collection they do, plus nearly every service and government/housing/job related thing connected to me uses the family phone #, switching them over would take hours if not days of calling, settings editing or paperwork to do.

I already pay for my family's house, food and utilities so I don't really see why its an issue to borrow the family's # every now and then.

Depends on what standard of living you desire and where you are- If you want to live as a hobo then as long as you survive your basic biological needs you could go indefinitely without internet, the same is true of any outsdoorsman who lives in a remote area where they can survive just based on their ability to hunt and collect water.

Eh, I assure you the burden of buying a brand new 500~1000$ phone and then paying a monthly bill to provide it with service would be a far far greater burden then allowing me to use their phone to make important calls once a week if not less, and letting me use it to sign up to a site/video game maybe a couple times a year.

You are correct that there are many devices and plenty of examples of infrastructure that is hardened against such things- but it's just plain wrong to assume it wont be a major problem- Multiple studies have found the damage caused by a solar storm equivalent to the 1859 example would cause trillions of dollars of damage and a lot infrastructure would be down across most of the 1st world for at least months if not years.

It would probably also trigger a lot of violent outbursts from populations around the world, probably a lot of mostly peaceful and fiery looting, riots etc.

I mean, if all the infrastructure is fried, your phone surviving wont do much besides allow you to have a disconnected phone until the battery dies.

I dont own a cellphone and get by through borrowing family member's phones or asking strangers if I can make a call if I'm out on my own, it usually works out fairly well.

However whenever I run into online services that require a phone to make an account or whatever I usually get screwed- so I usually just use a family member's phone # if I know they'll never use the site or whatever or utilize a 10 minute/fake phone # creation site if I dont care about the site or service I'm signing up for.

Every site on the internet besides ultra niche ones have bots nowadays- infact recent studies have found that the amount of bots on the internet are starting to equal and will soon surpass actual human users.

More like flood of bots across the internet.

Seriously, I swear I get temporarily blinded at night sometimes.

If you boil down every single aspect of information they possibly can gather on you to "analytics"- sure, however Discord got rid of the functionality to disable analytic data collection years ago iirc, and the button to 'delete my information' was removed around the same time- and replaced with the 'request my data' button.

But you should also know if you install it, it's been claimed (I'm too lazy to look it up, I just know that I've read/watched a video about it years ago) that it collects data on what you do across your entire pc, to at least the same extent that microsoft's default telemetry does. This is due to them monitoring your pc at all times so it can integrate with whatever game you are playing- of course.

Signal should check out as safe and private, considering even after getting multiple warrants from various governments they've given up next to no data on any of said requests- because they dont store it, the only thing they had is 'time of account creation, time of last connected to service'.

Oh, Toyota's strategy isnt Cynical, its a deliberate choice by the higher ups to champion hybrid, hydrogen and refuse to join in the EV party- its not some cynical idea that ev's aren't here to stay or wont take off.

Yea, its still unfeasible for many people with long drives to work or school- or infrastructure around them which isn't fast enough or built at all.

The newest and best offers for sale nowadays could probably suit you- 300mi/480km~ is pretty common nowadays and the Ioniq 5/Ev6 charge back up to near full in about 30~ mins. But those cars are out of reach for anyone out of middle income/higher middle income.

Bro... look in the settings, they literally give you a button to request your collected data.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHTR0-_eHto , here's a video about it if you really need it.

I dont own a cellphone so me I guess.

Not having ads? Lmao what? It literally spams you to buy nitro every chance it gets & it's not exactly free- they harvest quite literally every single drop of information they possibly can about you.

Well, unless you want to go on long distance trips or wont be home for multiple days on end.

As someone who lives in an apartment who cannot charge their EV at home, charging at public 6.6/12kw and fast chargers is more than enough to keep my battery filled, sure its like 2~5x more expensive than charging at your own home, but it's still like 4x cheaper than what I was paying in gas per month comparatively.