Humanius

Fairphone's current line-up almost makes me wish my current phone would break, so I'd have an excuse to upgrade.

I'm not sure if buying American equipment is a good way to rid ourselves of our dependence on America.
It allows America to control our supply of spare parts and software updates, and it doesn't bolster the European defence industry.

Get yourself some anti-histamines like cetrizine. It works wonders for me.

The hobbies are photography and videography, and it depends a bit on how frugal I am being.

If I limit myself to buying new stuff? Not a whole lot. Maybe a camera body or a few lenses.
But if I shop around and get stuff second hand, then I could buy so many lenses and cameras that I've been meaning to try out.

Usually I do the latter

But being based in the United States it is still subject to American laws, and that comes with the risk of potential American spying and embargoes. Software from any American entity (be it coorporation or non-profit) comes with that risk.

That is not entirely a fair equivalence though.

A road is built once and after that it exists. Its a matter of maintenance and upkeep to make sure the road doesnt deteriorate over time. But even if you neglect that, the road will still exist.. only now with potholes.
There are many places around the world with shit roads like this.

Public transit requires staff pay, fuel costs, upkeep, etc besides the initial investment and maintenance. If that money doesn't exist the busses don't disappear, but there will be noone to drive them. Same for trains and other modes of transit.

So when public transit has funding issues they are more immediately noticeable than when the road authority has funding issues.

Converting that to a yearly inflation figure:

1.015^12^ =~ 1.196

So about 19.6% yearly, assuming it will stay at 1.5% monthly for the next year.
By Argentinian standards that is honestly not too bad

In that case it wouldn't be "good enough". But I don't think this is such an all-or-nothing situation.

Don't let perfection stand in the way of good enough
It may not be the holy grail, but moving away from Meta-owned Whatsapp is already a pretty significant improvement

Not all of them.

I have a non-official chat group with some colleagues, and a chat group for the neighbourhood that are not likely moving just because I am refusing to use Whatsapp. It would just result in me missing out on those chat groups.

Currently I just have both installed, and that is also how I try to convince people to install and try out Signal.

But my goal is not to move to Threema, my goal is to move away from Whatsapp.
Signal fits the bill while expending far less social capital convincing people to use it.