people having a life and being able to afford to change their lifestyle away from fossil fuels is more important at the moment.

we really need more education surrounding the issues and better alternatives, once everyone realises how much damage cars cause and once they realise/once they have a viable alternative (i.e. trains) then people will start to switch away. in the mean time people still need their cars to get to work, because that is how the US is designed, and expensive fuel will only result in them having less spare change, rather than them actually using their car less.

sure, if everyone had enough money that they could afford to change up the way they do things or if everyone had a job that they can do from home or if everyone lived within walking distance from their job, then maybe you would have a valid argument. people are much less likely to go on a road trip, for example, if its gonna cost them 3x more than they expect it to cost, but people need to go to work to survive.

Biden somewhat dances around the idea of helping Palestinians, while Trump avoids referring to them as people. Both are terrible by any metric, but one is miles ahead.

From official F-Droid & IzzyOnDroid repos (except for Molly):

1. Aegis Secure + encrypted 2FA

2. Calculator++ Powerful scientific calculator

3. Clipious or FreeTube Android Clipious: Privacy focused invidious client that syncs with your account and lets you pick backup instances in case yours goes down FreeTube: Ad-blocking cross-platform privacy-focused YouTube client that imo looks better than NewPipe + Clipious

4. FluffyChat (if you use Matrix) Secure, private (although not as good as Signal), client for Matrix (the messaging service) that imo looks better than Element and lets you seperate rooms + DMs, which some clients don’t let you do iirc as well as a couple other features like pinned messages and video calls.

5. HeliBoard Best open source keyboard I’ve used so far

6. KeePassDX KeePass compatible password manager

7. Moshidon and/or Mastify Mastodon clients. Mastify looks really good but is till in Alpha releases so is missing quite a bit of features. Moshidon is extremely feature rich.

8. Molly Security-focused fork of Signal

9. Podverse My personal favourite podcast app, run by 1 person afaik with a lot of free features, or a very cheap paid plan that is basically just a donation because it only adds like 2 features that I can remember. Has a very generous trial too and the dev has said if you can’t afford it they’re willing to adjust pricing for you.

10. QUIK SMS Best actively maintained, open source SMS client.

11. Twine Beautiful cross-platform RSS feed app.

I’m using Firefox + uBlock Origin and don’t have a paywall.

This explains it pretty well https://callmebymygender.top/

What adblocker are you using? It doesn’t appear for me.

yeah, youre probably right

Ah, my bad. I thought that OP meant a bot to convert torrents to DDL.

It not being different to Discord is half the problem.

Why not? Because it’s probably slower, it’s yet another propietary service you have to rely on, and it defeats the purpose of using a torrent to start with.

Unless you have a specific reason to use Telegram, I’d avoid it.

lol sounds like you do, good on you. I’ve been listening to them for a bit and I really like them. I’ll be checking them out some more later, thanks again for the great comments!

Wow, nice. I love it when people are clearly so interested in what they’re writing about.

Sounds like I’ll start with Planned Obsolescence then, and work my way through their stuff. Thanks for such solid recommendations. :)

same- went straight from Lorna Shore into Lil Darkie earlier lmao

I’ve been meaning to listen to Gojira for a while- what album/song/whatever do you recommend I start with?

Wake Up & It’s Over - Lovejoy (although the singer has had some stuff come up about him being nasty with his ex girlfriend recently)

Soul Elegy - Termina

Take Me Back To Eden - Sleep Token

Fatalism - Polaris

ANALYSIS PARALYSIS - MAY-A

Post Human: Survival Horror - Bring Me The Horizon

Euthanasia - Stray From The Path

List is a genre trip and a half. Nice picks :)

Thanks, it’s more for the sake of having it playing comfortably on as many devices as possible without the user having to do anything, even in weird cases, so I guess I’ll convert with ffmpeg.

Ah yeah, that sounds about right.

Didn’t Mullvad ban torrenting?

edit: looked it up, looks like they didn’t. Can’t remember what I read that said they did.