Its even worse, selling your body for someone else’s profit. I was just recently in a weird knickknack store that had taxidermy peacocks, butterflies, gems, minerals, etc… But one of the ‘etc’ was a human skeleton that the person donated their body to science in early 1900’s only to end up being for sale for the low price of $9,000 after the medical organization they donated their body to was either done with it, or the organization dissolved, or who knows what…

Pretty shitty that its legal to sell people’s fucking remains for a profit…

Won’t that just make the libraries attempt to buy more content to replace the unusable content? I say attempt because they might not have enough funding to actually replace anything anymore, but who knows.

If we do live in a simulation, can I be taken out by a corrupt memory allocation, please?

As a society we should start taking the right wing messaging further to hurt the people initially spreading the messaging.

In this example, looking at that picture:

“People should boycott the business because they don’t provide parking! Those assholes don’t need my business!”

Man, look at those good jeans…

Proton isn’t for profit? Huh TIL. Anyway, they both support Trump, so both aren’t great. Make of that what you will, sliding scale of ethics and all that…

It didn’t get enough attention or make enough money, so Canonical dropped it. Its still on life support and slowly having some features added by the the open source community under the name ubports, but its slow going (they just updated the entire codebase from Ubuntu 16.04->18.04 and most recently 20.04) and not the best approach in my opinion, as i think every app has to be specifically developed for ubports, unlike postmarketOS where you can install anything in the repo. It also uses halium which is a translation layer for the android kernel that allows rhe Linux side to interact with hardware, since a lot of the drivers to make these phones work, aren’t mainlined.

Also like any project like this, device support is severely lacking (especially in the US).

Though admittedly, I didn’t realize you could get fairphone in the US now, and that it might work on us bands. So ubports on fairphone 5 might be good, dunno.

http://ubports.com/

Sadly the CEO of Proton turned out to be not a great guy.

Design a Linux phone. So sick of google and android. Currently looking at Fairphone 6 in the US as postmarketOS just got initial support, still need cellular, WiFi, camera to be functional, but considering it just came out a few months ago, pretty impressive.

Sounds like a quick way to make half a billion dollars 😅

Someone should just re-make all the products google killed off and by the end you’d have a competitor to google. Literally no thought needed to have a business plan or model, they’ve already killed off everything people love, lol.

Kinda seems like he does the opposite, but I haven’t been personally checking when his cronies sell. He seems to say some bullshit to tank a market then buy cheap knowing it’ll go back up, because taco.

A dump and pump, if you will. Which is very fitting for 'ol Donnie.

To clear up another point:

If you don’t pay off your monthly credit card statement in full you will have to pay 25% interest until its paid off

You’re not charged 25% interest until you pay it off, you’re charged 25% interest split over the year, daily. So .25/365

So if you’re balance is $1,000 and you don’t pay it for 2 months, you owe:

$1000 + $1,000x(.25/365)x30 days = $1020.54 the first month

$1020.54 + $1020.54x(.25/365)x30 days = $1041.51 the second month

My favorite story about best buy is in the early 2000’s, a family member gifted me a $20 gift card to best buy, which unbeknownst to them, I had stopped shopping at because it got too expensive and I started buying from newegg instead. Anyway, I walk in and am thinking 'well I don’t really need anything big right now, like a full PC, laptop, etc. Maybe I’ll just get a DVD or something."

Even with a $20 gift card, Best buy prices were so marked up, they were either still more expensive, or the same price as other stores. I think other stores were selling DVD’s at like $15 (not new-releases) and best buy was $35. I walked out and never ended up buying anything. I’m shocked they’re still around to be honest.

So to actually give you some amount of answer about why what you’re doing is historically not a good move: most apps and services that allow you to charge a credit card to get cash, is called a cash-advance and it usually comes with extremely high fees and higher than normal apr that make it not very attractive for people to use, and downright predatory for people that don’t know about the high fees.

For example, here’s what capital one says about it:

https://www.capitalone.com/help-center/credit-cards/get-cash-advance/

So maaaybe you’re not being charged this fee/apr, maybe you are, I’m not sure because i don’t use cashapp, but if you aren’t being charged this fee from cashapp or your credit card directly, its probably because cashapp is losing this money, trying to entice customers to its platform, as a “courtesy service” to its customers.

Digging into this further, here’s the fees I found for capital one:

"The Capital One cash advance interest rate is usually 29.99% (V). The interest rate applicable on cash advances is typically higher than what is charged for other card purchases and it will start accruing as soon as the advance is granted as there is no grace period for it.

You’ll also be charged with a cash advance fee of 3% or a $5 minimum."

So instead of paying 25% APR on your old balance, you’re now paying 30% APR with a 3% fee on the new balance.

https://wallethub.com/answers/cc/capital-one-cash-advance-fee-1000237-2140768055/

I now understand so much about my country if this is the financial literacy people have…

Lmao trying to hide porn in the late 90’s early 2000’s is what taught me the concept of steganography. There was a windows app you could hide a file vault in an image using steganography, I tried it but eventually the file got corrupted and my stash was ruined, lol.

Would you mind elaborating on why go for an older pro vs newer -a model?

Mixed with syncthing to sync your database file across your devices and its chef’s kiss