It really didn’t used to be this way. I remember distinctly walking into a metro PCs store in the late 2000’s/early 2010’s and being told by the guy there they didn’t care what your name was, you could write down bugs bunny and they’d still take your payment and activate your service. But because of that lots of… Less than reputable people did just that and things kind of ended up how they are now.

I think there was at one point a switch to VOIP because of that change, and after that VOIP providers started tightening things down, so now your best bet is probably to pay someone in crypto to import an already activated phone.

I’m going to point out rule’s 1 and 5 in the sidebar of this community. Have a nice day.

Are you not also making assumptions here?

I’m sure you have some proof of that, however, it’s more than likely subjective given what I said and what I witnessed and you are getting off your original topic.

Edit: You’re misrepresenting what censorship is, and you have still yet to give anyone here a reason to care about this likely contrived exchange. It seems like rage bait to me.

That’s wonderful.

It has nothing at all to do with why you likely got banned because it probably has more to do with the fact that some mod somewhere found you annoying than it does anything else. I’m sure that’s very sad for you, but why should the rest of us care?

That’s probably true. But I also deliberately blocked the vegan community here because I saw several posts where it was essentially trying to cannibalize itself over whether cats could be vegan. I honestly didn’t want any part of that no matter how useful some of the recipes might have been.

Reddit is a cesspool, and yeah, this community is for reddit stuff but at best this post is just trying to start a fight, or receive some validation (which is like … ridiculous because it’s a one off reddit post and we only have their side of the story, and we don’t even know if the accounts they interacted with are real people).

But also impartiality is something not even paid judges master and it’s like half their mandate. Expecting a bunch of random volunteers who aren’t being paid to be impartial is a crapshoot everywhere including here.

No offense meant, but I’ve seen r/vegan do the same shit to people pointing out the health detriments of a badly optimized vegan diet and I have no sympathy for this because you’re still using reddit.

To create an effective burner account you need an effective burner device and a burner network to use it on. Otherwise it is trivial for companies that collect your data to figure out who that data belongs to.

This is more technologically difficult than the average person is willing to deal with. It’s too high of a bar to clear when your browser is being fingerprinted, your devices are being fingerprinted, every new device you buy has some app or subscription, and algorithms collect and anonymize your data with such recklessness that it’s basically trivial to unanonymize it.

Use the same network as your parents and you’ll get ads for the toothpaste they use, and maybe what they plan to buy you for Christmas.

Try to remove or block trackers? That just makes it easy to single you out as a specific individual. Try to firehouse those trackers with garbage data? Same problem.

If you think using a dummy Facebook account on the same device you use for regular accounts means Facebook doesn’t track you or know who you are? That’s a pipe dream.

It’s the same with other apps too.

Especially Google and their app network.

Understand that it’s not that I don’t think this is a good idea (to remove certain services from your electronic life, and to curtail the use of others). But I think your strategy will give people a false sense of security.

Tape worms. They’re just performing their natural function. Musk is… Well. Musk.

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My understanding is they already made it more annoying. Your devices have to connect to the home accounts “home” wifi within a certain amount of time or that device gets locked out.

I quit Netflix when they announced the pilot program for removing account sharing in South America, and I stand by that decision to this day.

The reason why is greed. That’s the only reason for capitalism.

So a car wash?

I’ll mess with it one day. Just gotta remember to poke around with it.

I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I’m used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.

There’s an awful lot of billionaires. Don’t want it to take too long or we’ll be hacking at necks all day.

I feel like this belongs on the powertrippinbastards com.

Or even the reddit community.

I mean. Google literally just announced their new Aluminum OS. Like. 2-3 days ago I saw an article about it. Let me find it.

Edit: https://www.techradar.com/computing/desktop-pcs/android-powered-desktop-pcs-are-coming-and-i-think-theyll-be-an-exciting-step-up-from-chromeos

I see some suggestions on Reddit that it might be useable on phones. Nothing about that in the article so far as I read.

I’m gonna get the freeware version just for the nostalgia. I used to beat the piss out of my little brother in this game.

https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-finally-admits-almost-all-major-windows-11-core-features-are-broken/

On the positive side though, following all that backlash, Microsoft acknowledged Windows has issues, and as if on cue, the company in a new support article has admitted that there are problems on almost every major Windows 11 core feature. The issues are related to XAML and this impacts all the Shell components like the Start Menu, Taskbar, Explorer, and Windows Settings.

• Explorer.exe crash
• shelhost.exe crash
• StartMenuExperienceHost issues
• System Settings silently fails to launch
• Application crashes when initializing the XAML views
• Explorer running but no taskbar window.
• other XAML island views fail to initialize.
• ImmersiveShell problems