For want of a $100 per year Apple developer license fee, LibreWolf doesn’t work on Silicon Macs still, so I am forced to use WaterFox and a few other off-brand Mozilla flavors.

Hey, thanks!

How is this person forcing you? Are you an adult? So they provide the material benefits for your life, like good and shelter?

If “yes” to being an adult, and then “no” to being a dependent or an employee, then this requires a lot more conversation.

If you have an android phone, you can make use of FDroid and Islands/‘Insular’ (without root access) to have a separately secure side of your phone for apps and system settings.

For example, I loaded all of my work apps in there and then set a VPN so that ALL OFF THEM were unable to connect to the Internet when the VPN was offline, so that the ip-location and the DNS didn’t tattle on my travels. My regular phone use was secured away to the point I couldn’t accidentally send photos from my regular photos app through my work email app, only the second copy that lived within that ‘secure folder’ style partition.

Obviously your situation is harsher but at least you can mitigate a bit by being able to offline the app for considerable intervals, this way.

Good luck. I hope that you share more of this story.

Edit: I see you are stuck on iOS. I have zero suggestions for your specific situation besides “work on the relationship, and your always have the right to walk away from the business or the adult relationship if it’s untenable.”

Yeah, but I saw it this time. And thus, got to learn.

First of all, thank you. I don’t want to be telling developing nations to halt their progress. You underscore where my mindset could be prescriptive and harmful.

Second, my point is that we seem to only get infrastructure or ‘progress’ when it can be weaponized under capitalism to make someone money, the same way we can’t have meaningful recycling systems because it will never be profitable over virgin plastics and other single-use materials.

My attitude has been morphing into “nobody gets second until everybody gets first plates” but for housing, accessories, tools, etc – that plays directly into the kinds of capital equipment, network buildouts, and supply chains that deliver iPhones to us for $1,000 when the actual material, energy and human cost could be easily 30x that.

I’m saying the paths and lanes that deliver consumer goods and experiences are obscuring the waste therein, and that they drive copper crisis just like every other scarcity crisis.

We are all literally being tricked into bringing home more copper.

I bought a whole ass Samsung S25 In February, only to discover in March that a $6 part and $20 bucks of labor made my S22 perfectly serviceable (needed new USB charging port)

But like a dumbass I bought a phone after 3 years of waiting, and was giddy about it and I’m literally typing on the older phone now.

I have been trying to trick myself into letting devices grow into a more full obsolescence before replacing them, and have had very poor luck in doing so.

Plenty of this is my own impulse control, but plenty of this is by design and marketing, and if enough people are satisfied with their three years old cell phones bad things happen to your 401k and to my friends employed in South Korea.

I realize that this is an infinitesimally smaller amount of copper, Even all-in with accessories, and the institutional and industrial requirements for copper.

But if we don’t start to figure out some sort of degrowth, we’re going to hit that wall as others have mentioned, and it all seems to start with the marketing demand and design.

I don’t know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I’m missing out on all the ‘fun’ of ai chats and cult groups.

That’s the next step. They want to label Trans existence as basically pornographic and targeting the children.

I had no idea there was enforcement. I thought the popes just kept playing musical chairs with the offending priests to cover for the church.

Doubtful. Even one of me is pretty lazy. They’ll want someone more apt for their clone army.

Lulwut? When did /r/TD start leaking into Lemmy. Did any of what you said have anything to do with what I said?

Are you feeling alright, man?

Edit: seriously leaning towards ‘bot’ at this point. Humans that find their way into Lemmy have generally been much more capable, and much less MGTOW

Genuinely curious, what was the point of you typing out all of this to put on the internet?

I don’t know how to say this without being rude.

I’m wondering if you’re a bot that just churns out a few semi-relevent sentences or if you thought this was going to contribute to the discussions at hand? Because it felt like it wanted to blame the victims and then pulled back at the end and I ant fathom why you stepped into the tightrope wire in the first place.

I love this, so much. Blue Links have been the most critical pass to my future, across my entire life.

Purple links often, too. I can’t imagine surrendering the ability to sift through information with my own eyes and hands and brain.

The internet was founded on the sponsorship model where content was free and ads were ubiquitous. while I completely agree with you that I would rather pay for the product instead of being the product, at this informs every single sign up I make on the internet, I think it’s self deluding to think there’s any great again to go back to. The philosophy was always there, the execution just wasn’t possible until they had finished building their walled gardens

Full-fat VPS and roll-your-own proxy solutions are wonderful! Can you recommend a vps service that gives you the global access and a workspace for you to build your tools for your toolkit?

Most I’ve priced were either more than $6usd /month or were very, very over-provisioned, but I’m interested in learning!

Something strange happened in the last decade, wherever one has 300 emotional support tabs and browsers had to create really elaborate tab groups and memory management for juggling stacks upon stacks of tabs.

I don’t think anyone actually uses bookmarks anymore, except you, me, about any 3000 misc nerds.

Can I ask what has you subscribing toVPN’s year round? I have three use cases for my subscription

1. Torrenting
2. Bypassing weird region locks like South Korea’s age verification requirements for Google searches and naughty things.
3. Throwing all of my internet traffic back to the same country as my employer with a reliable kill switch for any VPN drops and DNS leaking.

I end up subscribed to Mullvad for maybe 5 months a year. I still end up paying less than a NordVPN subscription, I feel good about supporting Mullvad’s mission (like the ongoing development of their own browser).

I also love that I can share my subscription with other users if I needed to, just by giving them current account ID number. In this way, it would be practical to give up to five people access while still protecting all of my devices since I throw the VPN on my travel router.

I will schill for a very short list of companies, all day long, and Mullvad would be on that list twice simply because they don’t trick me into an endless subscription of any sort while all the others get committed income out of me annually.

Exception when gargling orange.

Important thing is Musk can’t sing Billy Joel’s ‘We didn’t start the fire’

I didn’t even know that they claim Chrome extensions will work, I simply use the Firefox extensions in Waterfox.

My browsing style is antiquated, my ADHD will only afford me about eight tabs per browser window and I usually have about four of those going at a time.

I aggressively kill tabs to save my own mental memory more than the machine’s memory.