It’s easy to simplify, and ignore nuance, huh! so here’s a simplified answer- “yes”

For anyone looking for something like that right now - https://grapheneos.org/

The neat part is - amazon is still a POS

Amazon is a big POS

Well, there’s Libreddit. If you absolutely must browse reddit, consider using Libreddit instead. No interactions though (there’s lemmy for that :p).

I like the idea of humans dissapearing.
From a neutral point of view, it’s too simple, one species in exchange for millions of other species and a planet.
Also on the universe scale, humans don’t really matter so no one cares except for us.

just living, but sometimes it feels reality is rawdogging me though. But that’s just life.

It’s bit hard to wrap my head around it. I think I’ll give joplin a try, if that doesn’t work out then maybe I’ll give anytype another go.

But won’t I need an account, and even without login, watch activity on youtube for it to churn out similar recommendations. First priority is not to use youtube, recommendations are a good to have.

There is this guide available for fitgirl and dodi repacks. Haven’t tried for dodi but fitgirl works for me, but process is pretty much same. Have fun

This looks really nice. Thanks!

happily enjoying life

I used https://juicysms.com/ for sms verification. It’s a paid service (I used monero).
worked perfectly for me.
I needed it for aurora store.

This is exactly what I am doing.
I am very grateful to the foss community that this is possible.

I haven’t personally experienced it. But have observed a discussion between product manager and engineer who had to put it. Seemed like regular business to him, he didn’t seem bothered at all.
I would think only people personally bothered by it might have any issue with it, they are rare.

I am on proton plus, have to decide between proton unlimited (1/2 year plan) to get proton vpn, or continue with proton plus and get mullvad vpn.

My time is more valuable than money, but I still pirate. To me it’s not about money but principles.
If I pay for something and still can’t “own” it, I pirate.
If a generous portion of the money I pay isn’t going to the rightful individuals but to our corporate overlords, I pirate.
If my internet freedom is threatened, I pirate.

If someone pirates due to lack of money and one day they have enough, I suggest keep pirating and donate to FOSS and pay to individual creators.

I think a lot of people here actually mean foss when they say open source. Calling it foss might impart the right message and the importance of libre software to new folks. I am little conflicted about non-libre open source software as might be evident by now, maybe my bias is unjustified.