I used to have an hour of Internet a week as a kid. I’m sure it cost a lot paying per minute.

This album is still a great listen to this day

Personally I think parents should just monitor their children’s online activity. It feels silly to try and regulate the internet as a whole. That ship has clearly sailed though.

The only things I have that are American are Steam, Battle.net and a Google account for Google play only. It’s definitely possible, but not easy.

Still no real solution for Android apps without a Google account. I need my bank’s app as it’s impossible to use online banking without it.

Interesting! This explains why the supermarket bakery I worked at had ovens that steamed everything.

They were never anyone’s friends.

It’s very interesting how they’re perfectly happy to do this type of thing to the rest of the world, but when it’s done to them suddenly they’re up in arms.

A girl got assulted walking to school in year 10 or so. Never heard any more about it, but there was a lot of concern in the air over it for a while.

Okay you win the fediverse for the week. 10/10

Yup pretty much this. All I want is to live in blissful ignorance.

I’ve found John Lewis and Argos to be pretty decent replacements for Amazon. Similar shipping times, and decent variety.

Lmao this killed me

It doesn’t matter how perfect or sloppy I pick out cars, buses, bicycles or stairs, it still makes me do at least 3 rounds before relenting. Captchas are the bane of my existence.

Even worse is cloudflare’s infinite loop captcha that never actually lets me through. That one absolutely hates my firefox for some reason and forces me to use chrome.

Still, I’m extremely stubborn and refuse to give up my vpn and privacy, so I just suffer through.

Sensodyne. Too many fizzy drinks as a teenager, unfortunately.

You could give rclone + cryptomator a try if you’re concerned they can see your files. They’ll only ever see encrypted files that way.

Biggest thing would be migrating to the Fediverse for Reddit / Twitter, and deleting every big tech account I had.

I’ve also migrated pretty much everything other than email (since big tech prevents you hosting your own) to my homelab. Gives me stuff to tinker with and it’s nice knowing my data is fully private, at least until HTTPS is broken by quantum computers.

Yeah I always looked down on the pro-LGBTQ marketing during pride. If your only interest in supporting people like me is to try and sell me shit in rainbow colours one day of the year, then you’re not interested in diversity at all.

Exactly, we’ve already seen this in the past. GDPR is a good example. Whilst I’m glad this regulation exists, it wouldn’t be necessary if megacorps would have behaved.

I wish these companies would realise that acting like this is a very fast way to get scraping outlawed altogether, which is a shame because it can be genuinely useful (archival, automation, etc).

I refuse to sign up for loyalty schemes. Now that all the big shops have two tiered pricing it makes me even more stubborn about it.