Lokinet is sus with its model imo. Unlike i2p, the idea of which is lowering the bar for being a node, it raises the bar impossibly high for most of us. If you have the insane sum it requires to host a node, it would be more useful to the world if you spend it on hosting good Tor or i2p nodes imo.

On i2p- and onion-sites, I guess having JS disabled is far more common than on normal internet, so “standing out” is not really a concern.

I mean, that’s just what I do. With some of my games, I have bought them on Steam (because I did want the devs to get paid) and have a pirated version for the sake of ownership, which imo is fair. If I was insistent on paying, I would rather buy a digital copy and download a DRMless one, if there is no DRMless purchase outright.

I don’t get the point of having them then. No one will check, they’re just filling space…

I find this to be an odd choice. No one is coming to your home to check. You KNOW you paid for the media. I’d throw the disks I know I would never use out, or sell them.

There are at least in-video sponsors, as well as things like Patreon.

Or, just as likely, go to the sketchy VPNs from the first Play Store results.

I got issues with both yt-dlp and Newpipe’s downloader as well.

As if their repair policies weren’t as egregious… I still cannot get over the fact that there is software part pairing and their laptops have soldered-on SSDs :/

Because not everyone can cut off every bad platform. People have family and work on it and Whatsapp. Be more understanding about people’s situations.

The rich want to enclose themselves in a bubble without average people >:(

Being required such an insane purchase is completely inappropriate… I wonder how old they’re allowed to be, this could only be affordable as old and secondhand.

Ah, that does make it better but still concerning - that would stop ME from also being paid in cash)

Which ones, for example?

Security is not everything though, you need to balance it with privacy and independence as well. Which are, indeed, harder on Android.

Well, too bad for them then. Taking a loan does not make a purchase easier, you pay even more anyway. So point still stands, a $450 phone IS an egregious lot, just not absolutely insanely so.

When it comes to in-person payment, would Taler be usable without a mobile device? Say, with just a card like normal banking? I would have it much rather coexist with cash anyway.

But yea, sounds like an improvement when it comes to online payments.

You live in a richer area then. Most people where I live make less than 1k a month.

Most people around me carry budget phones under $200. so no, far from a steal.

I stick to cash because I don’t think my bank should know things as sensitive as the full history of my transactions, which may or may not also be sold to others. Also in times like these I would not be surprised if you’d get in trouble for transferring some funds to a dissident’s card, while in reality it was just splitting the bar bill.