Let’s say that we have a more recent micro SD card of 1 TB. So to contain the same information in a punch card (with a byte density of 80 byte/156 cm² = 0.512 byte/cm²), we would need a card of 512,820,512,820 cm². If I’m not mistaken that would be a punch card the size of 51 km²!! This is wild :O

Yes, same for me! Has been working great for some years now :) The customer service was also always helpful even when doing stupid things (like incorrectly saving the password in my pw manager and then having to reset the pw on the same day as opening up my account lol)

The open eyeballs scare me! Looks like hungry worms impersonating humans

Interesting question!

I have the feeling that intense interests often lead to being awkward because it is assumed that “normal” people don’t so this. If I start passionately talking about my interests, neurotypical people often don’t get why I’m so intense about it and either find me boring, too much or cute (in a patronizing way). And having learnt to mask a lot and not show my interests, I often feel frustrated not to be able to share my interests. So for me, being awkward and having special interests are tied together.

But still, I’d rather be awkward than being such a boring person without the passion for their interests. I’m also trans and queer, and I wouldn’t like to be a cishet person either. Although it sucks so much not fitting in society and frequently being discriminated against, I wouldn’t be me without these traits. I would just be a very narrowminded, boring and passionless person I guess (I obviously don’t know how to imagine being someone else, not meant to be offensive). In my utopia, people would just be accepting of others and different needs and expressions.

Same. I often find people identifying with “nerd stuff” and wanting to be seen as nerdy somehow annoying for exactly that reason. I didn’t choose to be awkward or to have intense special interests.

Thanks, apparently not installed anyways :)

I’m running CalyxOS and cannot find this app. Is it listed among regular apps?

Interesting point and you’re certainly right about Aurora. I also use startpage.com as my default search engine and there it is basically the same. While I don’t give Google my data, I still rely on it nonetheless…

Oh ok, that clarifies it for me. I guess it would still be helpful to distinguish between Google really trapping someone inside their walled garden and them just exerting a strong incentive to stay inside the walled garden. I mean, you can have a custom rom on your phone etc. But still most people won’t choose this because it would mean technical literacy that hardly anyone has as well as giving up the comfortability and features of the walled garden.

I wrote gamam because I wasn’t sure what the abbreviation was and a quick search gave me gamam ;)

The example you gave at the end sounds horrible. Pretty obvious how walled gardens work in this one…

To me it is a bit confusing what you are looking for exactly. Like, if you want to know where you really need an Google account with no alternative there are probably few situations. Usually there are alternatives although they may require some or even a lot of effort. Or do you want to know in how far Google makes it so comfortable and is so dominant that it becomes the default for most people?

Like someone else in the comments here, I also live in Germany and do not have any Google account (or any GAMAM account). I couldn’t think of any apps that I would need where a Google account is required? Of course, if you are using stock android it may be necessary. But who exactly is forced to use android or ios if they can also use a custom rom?

The only case I can think of where you would be forced to use Google is when your employer or any group you are in is requiring you to participate with a Google account. But I’m not sure how they could force you to do so and even then, alternatives could be found, if other people are willing to do so.

I don’t get the 911/112 example. But maybe it’s because I’m generally confused about what you are trying to find out exactly.

Hail Seitan! --> many vegans (including myself) swear on pure gluten :D

And yes, I also know people who also cannot be vegan because of all their dietary restrictions.

I guess the similarity of arch users and vegans lies in the fact that both groups are very much outside the norm. So you often have to distance yourself from the assumed default (windows/apple computer, omnivore diet). And just talking with other people, it comes up often by itself. If someone asks me to fix their windows PC, I have to tell them that I haven’t really used windows for nearly a decade now. And if someone invites me over or to a restaurant, I have to tell them that I’m vegan. But people who are inside the norm often don’t deal very well with outsiders, so they have to invent tropes like the annoying vegan. What is actually annoying them is their own double standard they have to live with (torturing/killing animals and having a large ecological impact vs wanting to be a good human being).

But obviously there are also some people who use arch or are vegan and do it to provoke a reaction, to feel special and morally superior.

Well, a fork of Clementine :) Both are great music players that have a playlist-centered approach to music. Have been exclusively using them on my computer since many years.

strawberrymusicplayer.org/

https://github.com/strawberrymusicplayer/strawberry

Clementine -> Strawberry :)

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Oh nice! Really useful, thanks a lot :)

Hm, I cannot find it on fdroid. Do I have to wait a bit or what do I do?

Maybe not too helpful, but I’ve been using startpage for years now and it still seems like the best option for me. It is google-based but at least private.

I’ve also used newpipe for a long time now but tried switching to grayjay recently because it also has nebula support. But newpipe is just more reliable and I prefer the ui. I agree, this update makes it even better :)

Not that easy not to use the services of the big tech companies, is it? I don’t get why you would even give them extra money if their main profit is selling your data anyways. The only solution I see is to try to establish independent, people owned spaces/websites and so long the majority is under control of the big tech, don’t feed them your data and don’t feed them any money either.

As a German native speaker my brain nearly exploded trying to read the English subs but still understanding everything they say x)