Yeah, that’s a fair point.

Phones have this neat thing called a web browser that you can use to access your bank and if you can’t use a web browser to access it then honestly you should switch banks because that just shows that your bank doesn’t give a fuck about you and that you are the product because they have proprietary shitware on your phone

If you don’t hold it, you don’t own it. Unless you take the DVD from them, you can’t remove their access to the movie stored on that disc.

And every tool humanity creates can be used for both good and evil.

You can use a hammer to build a house or you can use a hammer to kill somebody by hitting them over the head.

A car can get you distances that would have taken a horse and buggy days, or it can be used to hurt people in crowds.

Nuclear energy can be used to destroy a city or light hundreds of millions of homes for decades or centuries.

There is no tool that is inherently good or inherently evil. The person wielding the tool is what determines how it is used.

Try this one.

https://archive.is/mun7S

They have slightly lower density right now, but there is work to increase the density, and it could very well get up to about 210wh/kg which would put it directly on par with current lithium ion batteries. So it could replace the low end of the EV market without any significant change except for a reduction in price by a lot.

You can already kind of use them now, although they could still use some work from what I can tell.

https://threadiverse.link/lemmy.zip/comment/24854923

I’m going to have to read this, because my knee jerk reaction answer is that it depends on what type of wash you want to give the car. If you want to give the car an actual wash at the car wash, you’re going to have to drive it. But if you’re wanting to wash it at home, then it doesn’t matter how far the car wash is away. Because you can just walk out your front door and grab your water hose. and soap and shit.

This is exactly my reason for using it. I love the third-party apps, and I love that it’s not owned by some corporation. Another thing I like is the resilience. Your particular instance may be down, or if cloud flare is down, several instances could be down, but the entire network is not going to be down.

There is absolutely no such thing as a private social media. Even if you weren’t able to make social media private from a network and technology standpoint, the users would dock themselves unless they immediately generated new accounts for every single post, basically.

Unsensurable donations is one thing Monero is incredibly good at. Since, while it is a cryptocurrency, you can’t tell who sent it, how much was sent, or who received it.

Okay, in that case, I would just buy a very cheap second device and have your primary one using a privacy system such as graphene and then use a secondary one that you never turn on except for doing that kind of stuff.

That way, at least your primary system is isolated from the rootkit that is things like Google Play Services.

I’m sorry, but I really don’t see what you’re trying to convey. The people I give my passwords to also don’t use cloud password managers.

PThe master copy stays on my device. If I need to give somebody access to a specific password, I just give them that password locally and they put it in their password manager for that account.

Same thing occurs if they need to give me a password. They give me the password. I put it in my password manager and then I’m the one who updates the flash drives on the rotating basis like I mentioned above.

What services do they have for senior citizens? Because they are the most likely ones to not want to use technology. You can probably piggyback on what they use.

Same here, I might end up with a check in my hands like once per year, and so I have to make like one single trip to my credit union every single year or whatever to deposit that check, and that’s it.

Switch banks. That’s what I did. I had a bank that required an app to use them as well before I decided that I cared about my privacy and wanted more of it. And when I found out that my bank wouldn’t let me do things, I switched banks. Because fuck them.

Generally it’s neobanks that cause the most problems. If you’re using older banks that have been around for quite a long time, they don’t have nearly the technology, so are less likely to have this occur. In the United States, an example of this might be something like Wells Fargo or Discover or something like that, whereas one of these neobanks that would cause problems would be like chime.

Generally, stay away from thin tech and stay with actual banks. You might also look at credit unions. My local credit union is really good, and has a good online website, and has an app as well, but doesn’t require it at all.

Spontaneous human combustion only occurs if the human is also carrying a Galaxy Note 7 LOL

Do banking exclusively through the online portals? For me, if that means using my desktop or a laptop for banking, that’s what I do, because I will not install a banking app on my phone.