Doesn’t seem to get better than that. The pay as you go with lightning fits the bill perfectly - thanks!
I just ordered a 7a which is arriving tomorrow. Putting Graphene on it on first boot without connecting it to any network without a google account to make sure the UID never gets captured or associated with my real google account. I’ll also be looking at providers that I can pay with Lightning. Any suggestions?
Nah you wouldn’t. I thought about buying one but it’s too rough around the margins for all but the most strident backers of Linux. Battery life and reliability are poor at best. Don’t get me wrong, I’m rooting for a Linux alternative but their phone isn’t it.
It makes the world go around.
Grab a bite at San Antonio Taco Company near Vandy campus and let me know what you think. Make sure you order their guacamole.
Regrettably, Android (stock) is the worst of all of the ones you mentioned. I use Linux daily where I can, MacOS where I can’t, windblows for work. I use services that rely on Apple for some things. Linux is my favorite, but it doesn’t fix everything.
Web apps were the past. Steve Jobs on first release of the iPhone said no apps would be run on the platform for security purposes. He proposed using Web apps instead allowing anyone anywhere to produce mobile-ready sites to do their thing. Apple users and developers didn’t like this and protested and Apple figured out that monetizing apps was a huge revenue winner and relented. We all got what we asked for and then some, didn’t we? What’s old will be new again. Don’t believe me? The share button allows you to iconify a website in the Home Screen. It’s there because of this.
Verona is my absolute favorite city in Italy. The views from across the river are incredible.
If there were a legit Linux phone that had a similar feature set, I’d be all in. As it stands, the best we can use right now is a Pixel with Graphene. Development is so arduous on open source mobile it’ll likely never emerge except for niches like ours, privacy and freedom above all else.
Impatiently awaiting my Pixel which will get the GrapheneOS treatment out of the box. This is the way! nostr:note1y09va4kuwez04wghfu3g7j5vcg9vtj4rsc0j8s0qly0xt52xdddq733j80
It’s like most things boomer. The first thought is, “What’s in it for him to offer me this advice?” They don’t understand the answer, “Nothing”. A lifetime of experience tells the listener that altruistic behavior only exists in Philosophy books. The allegory here is they’ve seen plenty of Chicken Little in their lives - and they perceive this monumental shift away from the USD hegemony to be nothing more than that. The move away from the gold standard in 1971 was supposed to be a paradigm shift that would send gold to the moon - which it did (and didn’t)… shifting the focus from enhancing fiat wealth to surviving the destruction of fiat wealth and just having freedom be that wealth is an alien thought to anyone who has enjoyed 60+ years of unfathomable abundance.
To some degree. The boomer is still fiat mining, so he is concerned about wealth destruction. Unlikely I’d convince him to do anything beyond the matrix he’s lived in 90% of his life.
if you’re not in Florida, you’re NGMI 🤙🏻
Truth: he’s starting to see the rug pulls (insurance industry in our state is all fucked up) but he refuses to connect the dots. Cognitive dissonance is a thing.
Wife of boomer seemed to get it and was asking questions. Boomer husband wouldn’t look me in the eye - probably thinking about his life’s savings going up in smoke and those steaks we were eating being a memory. The evidence of the machinations to destroy the USD are incontrovertible. He’s a blue pill kinda guy. Not sure what I was thinking talking to them about this stuff.
Word. They’ve been friends for years, and a vodka rocks in, I got all protective. The timeframe for CBDC’s has accelerated rapidly and even I don’t feel like I’m locked and loaded for this summer. We are in for a summer of complete chaos.
I busted out my full on Bitcoin/CBDC rant at a normie dinner with boomers. SMH.