@jonah@lemmy.one you’re alive! Welcome back, this server needs 4 months worth of maintenance!

I need all the protection I can get now Big Subreddit are after me!

Technically yes, but if you’re already paying for the thing you actually wanted then it’s essentially a free trial on top of that

It’s a free trial. I don’t know why everyone’s so shocked, they’re essentially giving you one or two free books in the hope that you’ll be hooked and want to pay for more!

Google will be shuddering

Well it is spooky season

Come on man, let that shit die with Reddit!

You can still use them with GadgetBridge if Rebble ever goes away too!

the first good wearable computer ever made

That’s an opinion and a half! People might consider it collectable but they’re not exactly rare.

Use Microsoft Teams for a while and you’ll appreciate how good you had it with Slack!

Ah, I missed the part where you said “Linux”, sorry!

Ah, I missed the part in the OP where it said “Linux”, whoops

Cromite is a fork of the seemingly-abandoned Bromite, which used to be the only browser recommended by GrapheneOS (other than their own Vanadium). It’s relatively new though so I don’t think that much has been written about it for comparison.

Drinking alcohol or buying it? Because in Britain it’s 18 to buy it yourself but 5 to have it at home.

ass covering

Does that mean covering it with a picture of your own bum or is that just how I make my memes?

Other way round for me, my IRL time contains the serious shit, I come online for escapism

Do you want to see people suffering? Because that’s fucked up.

Firstly, that sounds like a shit situation to be in, so please don’t think I’m dismissing your struggles here.

I don’t live in the same country as you and I have no power to even slightly affect your political situation. I read enough bad news about stuff that I at least have a chance to get involved in that sometimes I want to read some funnies on the internet without having to read about another shit situation. It’s not because I don’t care, it’s because it’s not worth stressing out further about something I cannot do anything about.

So yeah, that’s why people don’t want so see US politics everywhere. Just because something is very important doesn’t mean it’s very important to everyone.

Assuming this is on an android phone with the normal Google Play Services on it then you should expect that Google can theoretically read anything that appears on it. It’s probably not that sinister though, I don’t imagine anything is being sent away and logged (though it theoretically could be!), there’s probably just some process which reads every incoming notification and if it thinks it sounds like a task then it offers you the prompt. Is this some setting you haven’t disabled in Google Assistant?

Isn’t the angle just to sound interesting/controversial/unbelievable so people click and see your ads? You know, clickbait?

Ah, that’s a good point. Tape someone else’s card to the back of your phone!