Haha do what works for you. I was able to get into them after a long car trip where I forced myself to listen to an audiobook. After finishing it it got easier and easier the more I did it. Now I barely read physical books.

Interesting, than you for sharing. It sounds like your use case is indeed very different from mine. Do what works for you

Are you talking about an NFC payment app like Google wallet? That’s not called a banking app in the US at least. A banking app is made by a bank and is essentially only used for checking account balances and transfers between accounts. Why can’t you use a credit card with an NFC chip in it?

Ok. Thanks for your contribution

Not off topic at all. I have never heard of it but it sounds interesting. Thanks for the tip

Then revoke your consent insofar as you are able

Then refuse to participate. Use open source software and any other kind of system outside their control until they throw you in jail. That’s what I’ll be doing. If enough of us do they can’t jail us all. Participation is consent.

Where can you find the kind of support you speak of? I rarely call any kind of customer service line but I haven’t seen anything but the bad kind in over a decade

Education and indoctrination are the same thing from different perspectives

I always hear people say stuff like this but realistically how often are you guys using these banking apps on your phone when that is your only option? I don’t even have any banking apps installed because it’s just not something I ever need to look at on the go. Anything I need to do gets done on a different device when I’m at home or I go to the actual bank building (I almost never do that either).

I’m not saying there’s no functionality problems with alternative mobile OS’s but this one in particular just seems overblown to me.

I think it was a very important interview. “There’s nothing Christian about Christian Nationalism” is quite possibly the most effective idea to popularize in national politics. It’s self evident to anyone paying attention but that’s the thing, many aren’t. Democrats should be absolutely hammering this point in an effort to break Trump’s hold over cultural Christians but for some reason they have barely even tried that angle.

So many people just go along with what everyone around them is doing but most of them at least want to be good people. A ton of them think Christianity is their path to get there so when they hear that Trump is the Christian candidate that’s all it takes. They’re not really paying attention to what he’s actually doing. If you can drive a wedge between him and that label he’s in huge trouble. That’s why they’re scared of Talarico.

Haha I get that. I was the same way for a long time but gave them another shot a year or so ago and now I’m hooked. They are so much more convenient than physical books

Nice, it sounds like you’re learning stuff just fine. I recommended it elsewhere in the comments here but if you’re looking for audiobook sources I suggest checking out libro.fm. They give half of your purchase price to a local bookstore of your choice and you can download the files in multiple formats with no DRM.

Libro.fm seems to be a solid paid service. They give half of your purchase price to a local bookstore of your choice and you can download the files in multiple formats with no DRM.

Can we be fascists in our treatment of fascists? I mean, the gulags already exist. It would be wasteful not to use them for something

Old people who don’t go to parks because there are children and brown people there like to see grass and trees too.

Set up audiobookshelf via docker. I like using portainer to manage docker containers because it has a GUI. Command line stuff is more difficult if you don’t have the background experience to go with it. I think doing it all in a GUI feels more comfortable for most people.

Docker can also be kind of intimidating if you are just wading into the self hosting world but it really is much simpler to use once you get the hang of it. Portainer helps a ton with that. Audiobookshelf would be great to start with both imo because it’s a pretty basic set up. You have to define a storage location for your library and config files and that’s about all it takes to get it up and running.

I recently got into all this and remember well what it was like to feel out of my element so feel free to ask questions if you have any. I’m no expert but I’m happy to share what I can.

I hope so. I want to be on all the lists but not bad enough to use reddit or FB.

She was as tall as a 7 year old Norwegian pine sapling exposed to ideal soil and water conditions and he was as tall as a female giraffe’s asshole.

I work with a lady who calls ChatGPT Chattiana and says she’s her best friend. Decent wordplay, terrible way to live