It sounds like you still need to figure out what you want.
In the end where do you want to be? Do you want to keep the car permanently? Keep it then.
If you can only imagine another 4-5 years with it, that doesn’t seem worth worrying about, it’s a temporary placeholder until you find one you really like. If the $20K is useful to you right now, sell the car and take it. If you’d just roll it into the next car, make sure it’s the car you really want.

But that’s the point of view of someone who spent half a decade shopping for the car he wants to keep for at least two decades. If that’s not you, then sell it and just lease from now on.

Not a Samsung. A Redmagic 10Pro.
More refering to Silicon Carbon generally.

Mine’s been working great for nearly 2 years now. 👍

Social media is standing up on a podium in a crowded street, shouting through a bullhorn. Now you’re asking about comming back the next day to tell everyone what you said yesterday is a secret. Do you see how that seems strange?

Privacy lost, can NEVER be regained. When you make something public, that’s it. It’s public now.

Never post anything to any social media that you might want to keep private. It doesn’t matter who owns it, or how it’s licensed, if it’s online unencrypted, it’s public; Now and evermore.

As a GenXer, even I’m rolling my eyes at Vanguard.

Though as a bonus, in my poking around security settings to see if there really isn’t an option for this obvious feature, I found that they now support software Passkeys! They skipped right over TOTPs

Me neither.
Just setup an annual donation so I don’t have to remember.

It depends on what you change more often.

If you change your provider more often, than eSIMs are fine. You don’t have to wait for anything in the mail, or go to a store.

If you (me) keep your provider for a couple decades, a physical SIM card can be moved to any new phone at any time, without even needing to talk to your provider. Never mind asking them to approve your new niche little phone they’ve never heard of, and don’t know will work (it will)

They do tend to be more expensive. But not extremely so. Maybe 20-40% more than a consumer equivalent.

I’ve decided my next TV will be a Digital Sinage Display.

Some people here already don’t like that they can’t know if something they deleted is gone, or that literally anyone can see anything they do here.

This would just destroy anyone’s concept of data ownership and control. Which I kinda like.

But pire peer-to-peer distributed systems like this, mean you need to locally store everything you may want to see or read, or ever have. Which is not possible for most

Not the kind if thing you can do with an extension.
Every broker has their own process. Some even require actual physical letters be sent to remove your data.

There are hundreds of those data brokers. And new ones opening as others close every week. Doing it yourself, and keeping up with it on a regular basis? That’s nearly a full time job. Nobody does that.

There are several companies that do this.
Even Mozilla did until this month.

DeleteMe seems not to be the best. They might sell data to places while getting it removed from other places.

I just signed up with Incogni which is one of the biggest.

That’s true, I didn’t use the word wrong, I only implied it.
Sorry for the confusion.

Yes that’s all true. But it’s a seperate problem that’s happening anyway, 230 or otherwise.

Yes that’s why repealing is the wrong thing to do.
As I said amend it.

The Fediverse doesn’t have any black box algorithms that recommend content. With the flat repeal of 230 it would be in danger. With my amendment it wouldn’t.

I don’t know it for a fact, I just know it’s true, that Google collects and logs every byte of data that goes through its servers.

I never mentioned repeal and replace.
As I said, don’t repeal it, amend it.

Those who are harmed decide. 230 is about protecting companies from law suits filed by users.

The whole “end of free speech” issue comes not so much from the government sensor really (that’s still firmly restricted by the first amendment) but from companies themselves banning any content or accounts that might get them sued.

But if that risk is limited only to what they recommend outside a user’s direct boolean search and filters, they can still host content without concern. But they need to be sure they know and approve exactly what their algorithms are pushing onto people.

What crisis did capitalism have in the 60s & 70s?
I’ve never heard of that before.

As far as I know that was the best years this country has known. Top tax rates were ~90%. The middle class was larger and more prosperous than anytime before or since. We were making huge strides in science and tech, as well as social progress.

But the greedy NeoLiberals fealt that while things were good and getting better for almost everyone, they were being held back by all the taxes and regulations that helped the unworthy “poors” at their expense.