why?

I only do this with the fridge in the summer to not let the chocolate melt. but why the freezer?

I have a very low value lenovo tablet that my provider was giving away essentially for free (for worthless loyalty points I think). its BL cannot be unlocked, it has a special bootloader that does not implement the standard unlock commands.

Other than that, I have to admit I don’t often deal with cheap phones, because my experience was that not even LOS supports a lot them. Maybe that’s changed though.

that’s true, but at least try to buy one that’s not extremely locked down, or unnecessarily convoluted to unlock. that instantly rules out all samsungs, for both of these reasons and for destroying phones when sent for repair to an official service

if with cell phones you mean the non-smart, dumb phones then I can agree. however if you buy the cheapest of smartphones, what you’ll get is even more datamining than usual, which you may be even unable go remove because it’s bootloader cannot be unlocked.
but I would say don’t cheap out on tech generally, because you’ll get extremely weak security and nonexistent respect towards you as a customer.

smartphones is a dirty business. don’t support the bad actors with your many, and then long term with your data

I was going to argue that your account is publicly viewable, but I realized that you may still be right. This depends on their definition of what is a user.

Same with semi-public. May even be used for anything that is not public but they don’t like it.

It’s good to hear that there are companies that are accepting this. Interviewing is a little different, yeah, that’s probably understandable when done remotely

I expect that all smart TVs have a web browser, so the first two should always work. Be aware though that while piped is more usable (imho), it currently does not work anywhere, because it did not yet implement a fix for google’s blocking that invidious did a week or so ago.

If FireTVs are android TVs, you should be able to install the android apps too, in a way or another.

I liked Opt Out a lot, but in recent years it has quite few episodes. It’s main topic is privacy and related technologies, in every episode they have a guest related to the current topic.

• invidious
• piped
• some TVs have 3rd party specialized versions of the official webapp

The first two have web pages and phone apps. You can find the phone apps on F-droid.

Fun fact: did you know that the youtube app on your TV is just a no-effort web browser with a URL fixed to a web page, which you could even use on your PC?

Which does not solve the webcam’s mic, which (to me) is a bigger issue because it does not only record who’s in the from of the machine, but also the whole surrounding area.

Ok, I hear you. But here’s the secret: I don’t want to use a webcam at all. If you want to see me, agree to a physical meetup. Obviously that’s not the only reason.

Are you from Hungary?

Then you should duck it!

Unfortunately it’s very similar to 2 swear words so it would both be easily misunderstandable and on mobile autocorrect would easily pick the wrong variant.

Yeah, except you can check what it does, how it works, and make changes to it.

I feel you. I’m not living in the middle of nowhere, but I often feel lonely, and at the same time that I couldn’t spend enough time with a partner. That I have my hobbies, things I want to do, basically all of them at a desk. I don’t want to give these things up, and I don’t see how anyone would be fine with this, why anyone would want to live with me. And it just sounds so weird to only have a “sex partner”, that does not sound right, to me at least, but also why would anyone go into that with me?

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