A lot of Android bot devices simulate (or even ARE) a full phone with a legit Play Store and other Google services.

This requirement is enforced vendor lock in. Nothing more.

y’all’re going about this all wrong

anyway, mine is coffee chocolate chip walnut ice cream

(even though apparently op says new ice cream flavors don’t count)

buddy pls

Lmao. $227k just to get heard. Looks like it’s time for a .227k domain.

Yes that’s how capitalism works.

I’m saying that most western socialist democracies, even with capitalism, look quite communist.

You’re obviously focusing on the unemployed part of it. But even if I were unemployed I would get food and housing in my EU country. Although mostly it would be in the form of money with extras like access to a place to get free food or social housing.

With a normal job you can buy middle class luxury goods perfectly fine. Which is my point. Middle class luxury goods are stuff like TVs, game consoles, phones and decent clothes. Stuff like being able to go drink a night or go to the movies. All that stuff is perfectly possible which means you can get whatever “low paying” job and have a share of all of that. And without the idea of money that looks like economic communism already.

I know it doesn’t move towards communism, but it looks a hundred times more communist than Russia and China. Think away the money in socialist democratic countries and you can just work a 32-40 hour work week to receive housing, food, healthcare, social security, middle class luxury goods, etc. In socialist countries all of that is much more affordable with a normal job (and even during unemployment). It’s like resources are already equally shared but they just have a monetary backbone.

You’re describing what most people have from too much caffeine. So maybe your tolerance is just much lower. Or maybe you chug coffee like crazy.

Democratic socialism is a much better move towards communism than an authoritarian approach. Therefor Europe is already more communist than China and Russia.

Mad, tankies?

There are many paths towards communism. China and Russia went with an authoritarian regime “to move towards Communism”. This actually makes sense on paper because it requires quite a lot of power to actually change the whole system into communism. The tankies still believe this, but in reality their leaders are perfectly happy with all the power they now have.

You know what’s funny? The fact that they could have done this ages ago.

It takes a while to learn how to not give a fuck about what people think of you. But in a respectable way of course. If you stop giving a fuck you can just be yourself. Took me at least until I was 25 before I could really be myself. Looking at the people around me that age can definitely be much lower or even higher though. I still care about what some people in my life think about me, and I try to live up to their expectations because I love them.

Your idea of doing social activities is a pretty good idea too. Meeting all kinds of different people is a good way to get out of your shell and you’ll automatically care less about what they might think of you because if it doesn’t click with them that’s perfectly fine and you can just continue your journey.

Tor exit nodes are public and even easier to block than VPNs.

There’s services that not only check for known VPN servers, but also for IPs in datacenter IP blocks. So using a VPS could in theory also be blocked.

Sadly the UK didn’t take over much of the consumer laws during its EU membership because it being hidden like that is not allowed.

It’s too dangerous for Google not to get a 30% split.

There has been a lot of marketing done towards non techies regarding charge speeds, so most common people do know about it. Plus most people will also just buy the one the companies will suggest or bundle.

A little side thing that’s also important is that in Europe the salespeople aren’t simply trying to get you to buy their product with the highest markup, which means you’ll get people that will actually look up your laptop and sell you a correct charger.

Aftermarket crap is a thing though, but from what I’ve seen most people will understand it’s because they bought cheap Chinese stuff.

You can probably port it to a userscript without much trouble, and then you can use it in every browser using a single extension/addon along with other userscripts (which you can easily read the source code and disable auto updates of). I use Violentmonkey and have written a few scripts. Development and usage is easier than extensions/addons for personal stuff.

Personally I just use Dark Reader though.

In the EU you must give explicit consent.

Then the EU can force Google to remove or disable them for EU users.

Coming from the creator of a search engine that does “anchor hijacking” where it sends a request about what link you click even if you hover over the link and only see the original URL in the bottom.