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I’ve gone down this path.

You want an archer c7 with OpenWRT. I got one for 5 dollars on marketplace, flashing it took all of 2 minutes, and it kicks ass.

They don’t affect me because I’m a childless adult.

I said slightly better, I wasn’t trying to get in a pissing match. We have a huge amount of preventable tragedies, yes, but the surveillance the UK is implementing, and their curbing of free speech and protests, are two areas that would have a profound effect on how I live my life. Ergo, I feel slightly better.

I’m sorry if I insulted your favorite government.

This post gives Reddit vibes where everything is black and white and the contrarian is always right

I’m sure there are families where this exists so cleanly, but the truth for most families is probably in the middle

Everything I heard about the UK makes me feel ever so slightly better about living in the US

Ah yes, because the left wing is famous for the proliferation of requiring a government issued ID to use the internet in ways that make them uncomfortable.

Virtually any place that accepts a credit card will accept debit cards, too. Actually, most debit cards can be processed as credit cards. The comment you responded to simply highlighted that this trick is much easier to pull with credit card than a debit card, as the creditor hasn’t yet been repaid for the credit issued.

A satisfied user and RCA are equally important.

Not even; overstaying a visa is a summary offense in the US, no different than a parking ticket.

A Republican introduced a bill last year to increase the fines and create a criminal offense for it as well, but that never even went to a vote.

In the USA, most power bills are the tenants’ responsibility. In the USA, virtually all internet connections are the tenants’ responsibility.

The locality hosting the services could also pass a law requiring the tenants to either bear responsibilities for, or be included in, all utility related billing.

A lot of arguments in this thread seem to be ignoring this as a solution to the legitimate problems they’re raising.

There’s exceptions, though; that’s why we’re here :)

I totally read what you’re saying. My work requires me to maintain a personal cell phone (Intune business profile) and, with any OEM implementation of a smartphone OS you’re essentially paying to donate everything about you to a megacorp to sell it to another megacorp to siphon more of you’re life away from you. The beauty of modern advancements, though, is that if you don’t care to be within 20% of the “bleeding edge” of attention extraction and intention fabrication you can spend your time in communities like this and with tech like graphene and linux making few sacrifices, if any.

I don’t know about you, but the lemmy atmosphere feels a lot like that of early forums to me. Not quite the same, but the community aspect is more present.

I think my stance is that technology doesn’t suck, as is the case with most things; it’s the unchecked and rampant abuse of a given thing.

Brilliant. I’ll set up some devil corp calls today!

Good points. Maybe I’ll offer it as an advanced side meeting or something, for those particularly interested. The goal is to help the community and not just a subset, of course :)

Absolutely, this is the goal. I’m going to run the first few with things ranging from simple “need a new phone? here’s what to look for” to “here’s how to install Graphene on a pixel and linux on a desktop” to break the ice and build the group. I have no idea how to garden, but judging by all the community gardens in my area I’m sure someone does.

Hell yeah! Great idea :)

Hmmm… might have to put this one on the back burner D:

Tons of public transport in my city, could be fun!

Excellent idea! There’s a ton of community gardens near me as well, so this is perfect for my community.

Definitely adding this to the list :)

Fantastic idea. I’m always blown away when I see someone learn about a HYSA for the first time!