My main passphrase that unlocks my PW manager is in the same envelope as my testament. My partner knows my excessively long phone passcode by heart.

Oh, I somehow thought they were the same.

I recommend qbit, it’s small and stable. NordVPN does not seem to support port forwarding either. I can recommend proton for that.

This. Check for port forwarding if you use a VPN, you can see of your client is connectable by the colour of the globe in the bottom bar in qbittorrent

Then getting the point across should be the focus. All this hysteria clouds the argument and belittles OP, someone exhausted who doesn’t get the help they need from their doctor.

Seems most others here managed to do that just fine.

Do you have to communicate like this?!

I moved from an iPhone to Graphene about a year ago. I miss the quality hardware that Apple makes, metal and glass feel nicer than plastic. The pictures the Pixel 8 Pro takes are crap compared to my old iPhone too. However… I bought the Pixel used to test the software primarily and will stick with Graphene for the forseable future. It runs great and instead of buying a better quality Pixel, I am waiting for what Motorola will offer next year.

Some advice regarding the switch. Apple will make it annoying to leave their ecosystem. I recommend to move gradually, get your Graphene set up and keep your iPhone as a daily driver until you’re confident everything works on Graphene. I did this for about a week. I moved my pictures off of iCloud with Proton Drive and for NFC payments I switched to a bank that supports it from their own App. (Although I also switched to using 95% cash, it’s good to have a backup on the phone.) Using a Mac or going to icloud.com will make exporting your contacts and calendar a lot easier than trying it on iOS.

Two profiles is my setup. The main without Google for Threema, Signal, OrganicMaps, Voyager for Lemmy and all the other dailies. The secondary profile has the GooglePlay services running for my two banks. I use OLauncher for a clean home screen and HeliBoard as a keyboard, neither of these two have network access.

Chat me if you have specific questions, I enjoy tinkering with this stuff and chatting about it :)

Please stop buying from Amazon

I own some stock in my bank and a farm.

For the farm, the stocks are intended for the farmer to invest in equipment or whatever they need. I work 4x a year at that farm (either packing cheese or cleaning something) and I pay for my milk, cheese and yogurt. The stocks are a great way for the farmer to get some cash for investments without involving banks. We’re about 100 people who own stock and do the quarterly shifts, but the main value is created by the farmers, their animals and the land. I’m not sure at which point these things become co-ops, but it seems similar.

Regarding my bank, any stock I buy from them enables them to do stuff with 7x the amount of money I gave them. E.g. if I own 10k in stock, they can use it to finance a 70k loan for someone, I get some dividens (~2% usually) on that. Now does a bank create value this way? Probably not, but it’s better banking than the major names who have little transparency.

For both, I can vote on important topics and future projects. For me this ensures my bank only invests sustainably and the milk and cheese I consume come from a farm that is nearby, organic and treats its animals well.

edit: important to call out, these stocks are not publicly traded. Anyone can buy them from the bank/farm and the price per stock is set once or twice per year. So there is little speculating, and nobody can tweet about peace talks and commiting war crimes to drive the price up or down.

Maybe I just mean stocks in general, not the stock market or exchange. But stocks without public trading and speculating are still around and a good thing that can support creating value.

I own some stock in my bank and a farm.

For the farm, the stocks are intended for the farmer to invest in equipment or whatever they need. I work 4x a year at that farm (either packing cheese or cleaning something) and I pay for my milk, cheese and yogurt. The stocks are a great way for the farmer to get some cash for investments without involving banks. We’re about 100 people who own stock and do the quarterly shifts, but the main value is created by the farmers, their animals and the land.

Regarding my bank, any stock I buy from them enables them to do stuff with 7x the amount of money I gave them. E.g. if I own 10k in stock, they can use it to finance a 70k loan for someone.

For both, I can vote on important topics and future projects. For me this ensures my bank only invests sustainably and the milk and cheese I consume come from a farm that is nearby, organic and treats its animals well.

The stock market was once a great idea, provide a business some cash upfront so they can create value, get a cut of the result.

Now it’s just about extracting value, capitalists are turning everything to shit.

The Yes Men are nothing compared to the big Yes Machine he keeps pushing

This guy sounds like someone who has been told how smart he is a few too many times in elementary school.

This. But having worked in people management before I also understand that there are infinite ways different people might interpret one thing

We’re 43 people already, the remaining 95% will continue to buy it anyway because…

1. It just tastes better
2. It can’t be that bad
3. It’s convenient
4. I’ve always bought that
5. I have nothing to hide

Pick as many as you like. More than just dissuading people, I think it’s high time to sabotage and destruct.