The only way is a data only SIM card.
It won’t have a phone number for anyone to call or text.
Of course you can’t make calls or texts either. You have to setup some kind of SIP service if you need to.
We’re not talking about individual people, but whole corporations and organizations.
For example. Instance.social is shutting down. Now the whole Org needs to migrate 150 accounts to someplace else. Oh and the old posts are being deleted, can’t migrate those.
And the support community you created on there, is going away also. Again, can’t really migrate all the old posts and comments. But the FAQ documentation we put there when people asked about it, can be manually copied to the new place. So that’s something
That’s not a situation any company would want to be in. Better to have their own social home, that they control.
Hard disagree.
Running your own social media server for official accounts, so you’re not beholden to the whims of other providers, is kind of an obvious thing to do for online organizations.
As a stepping stone to an octo-fold phone? Yes.
I started buzzing my hair down to an 1/8th inch when I was 14. Then much if it fell out in my 30s also.
I loged in to my account for the first time in over a year, to ask them about starting their own Fediverse instances for public communications. Specifically Mastodon and Lemmy.
comes with their school districts’ decision to install AI-powered monitoring software such as Gaggle and GoGuardian on students’ school-issued machines and accounts.
That’s kind of standard practice on any company issued devices I’ve ever used.
Unless they’re being given for the kids to own. If they have to give them back at the end of the year, then they don’t belong to the kids.
We’d really need to know what the 30 options are, to recommend one.
But I’d really recomend against it. The point of an HSA is to have cash available for medical expenses and emergencies. Over the long term (decades) index funds do consistently trend up. But on any given day, you never know. Money you were expecting to be there might not be. Now you’ve got a whole other problem.
If you have more money than you can imagine needing in the HSA, pick something with slow consistent growth and low or zero volatility.
If you’re doing periodic backups of your logins (I need to, it’s been a couple months) the egg basket issue doesn’t matter much.
Actual instructions are big for an internet comment, and dependant on your specific situation and needs. I’ll recommend some reading.
If you don’t want to spend a lot of time.
Go straight to The Index Card
Bonus points if you read Pound Foolish first.
They aren’t long. They explain what to do, and what not to, respectively. They were kind of written as a pair.
If you’re willing to take a longer journey.
Start with The Richest Man in Babylon, explaining why investing is a good.
Then read A Random Walk Down Wall street, describing all the ways you could invest, but probably shouldn’t.
Then move onto the other two I mentioned first.
If you read all of them you’ll know more about finance and investing than 90% of people.
These books are all quite US centric, but the basic principals are the same everywhere. Though some of the tax advice you’d want to check into locally.
Hypocritical for sure.
Not really unexpected, so not ironic.
they say giving their biometric data to an unaccountable company crosses a line.
The company is unaccountable‽
That’s some projection.
It probably lost 20+% of it’s max charge in that time. That’s what I’m talking about.
Don’t use these super fast charging rates. They aren’t good for your battery.
I got an ASUS ROG phone because you can set it to charge slower, and stop at 80%. The battery longevity will be better.
Not really. One can be dealt with if needs be, since they’re US companies. The other can’t because it’s the Chinese government.
Nobody cares because they are US companies.
First, it’s not a TickTok ban. It’s a ByteDance ban. ByteDance could sell TickTok to another company outside China and TickTock would be fine in the US.
Second, it was never about protecting user data. It was about preventing China from tweaking the algorithm to try to subtly influence public political opinion, instead of maximizing generic rage and political polarization, to exploit for ad dollars.
Never had an actual Bank account. For 30 years, I’ve only ever used Credit Unions. Never thought for a moment Banks may be able to help me better.
Sometimes people do the right thing, for the wrong reason. While not ideal. I’ll accept it.