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For want of a $100 per year Apple developer license fee, LibreWolf doesn't work on Silicon Macs still, so I am forced to use WaterFox and a few other off-brand Mozilla flavors.

Hey, thanks!

How is this person forcing you? Are you an adult? So they provide the material benefits for your life, like good and shelter?

If "yes" to being an adult, and then "no" to being a dependent or an employee, then this requires a lot more conversation.

If you have an android phone, you can make use of FDroid and Islands/'Insular' (without root access) to have a separately secure side of your phone for apps and system settings.

For example, I loaded all of my work apps in there and then set a VPN so that ALL OFF THEM were unable to connect to the Internet when the VPN was offline, so that the ip-location and the DNS didn't tattle on my travels. My regular phone use was secured away to the point I couldn't accidentally send photos from my regular photos app through my work email app, only the second copy that lived within that 'secure folder' style partition.

Obviously your situation is harsher but at least you can mitigate a bit by being able to offline the app for considerable intervals, this way.

Good luck. I hope that you share more of this story.

Edit: I see you are stuck on iOS. I have zero suggestions for your specific situation besides "work on the relationship, and your always have the right to walk away from the business or the adult relationship if it's untenable."

Yeah, but I saw it this time. And thus, got to learn.

Frustrating, because we really need both.

First of all, thank you. I don't want to be telling developing nations to halt their progress. You underscore where my mindset could be prescriptive and harmful.

Second, my point is that we seem to only get infrastructure or 'progress' when it can be weaponized under capitalism to make someone money, the same way we can't have meaningful recycling systems because it will never be profitable over virgin plastics and other single-use materials.

My attitude has been morphing into "nobody gets second until everybody gets first plates" but for housing, accessories, tools, etc -- that plays directly into the kinds of capital equipment, network buildouts, and supply chains that deliver iPhones to us for $1,000 when the actual material, energy and human cost could be easily 30x that.

I'm saying the paths and lanes that deliver consumer goods and experiences are obscuring the waste therein, and that they drive copper crisis just like every other scarcity crisis.

We are all literally being tricked into bringing home more copper.

I bought a whole ass Samsung S25 In February, only to discover in March that a $6 part and $20 bucks of labor made my S22 perfectly serviceable (needed new USB charging port)

But like a dumbass I bought a phone after 3 years of waiting, and was giddy about it and I'm literally typing on the older phone now.

I have been trying to trick myself into letting devices grow into a more full obsolescence before replacing them, and have had very poor luck in doing so.

Plenty of this is my own impulse control, but plenty of this is by design and marketing, and if enough people are satisfied with their three years old cell phones bad things happen to your 401k and to my friends employed in South Korea.

I realize that this is an infinitesimally smaller amount of copper, Even all-in with accessories, and the institutional and industrial requirements for copper.

But if we don't start to figure out some sort of degrowth, we're going to hit that wall as others have mentioned, and it all seems to start with the marketing demand and design.

I don't know about any of this. I pretty much only have looked into it for porn and bootlegs of academic papers. Feels like I'm missing out on all the 'fun' of ai chats and cult groups.

That's the next step. They want to label Trans existence as basically pornographic and targeting the children.

I had no idea there was enforcement. I thought the popes just kept playing musical chairs with the offending priests to cover for the church.

Doubtful. Even one of me is pretty lazy. They'll want someone more apt for their clone army.

My transaction sending a small amount of cash to a personal friend in Australia exited my account just fine, but failed to materialize in theirs today.

I wonder if it's affecting specifically Australia, because they were unable to open their own new account today for some kind of rate limiting or velocity timeout.

Like if Wise have some microservice or compliance API calls failing for Australia markets specifically, that could explain these three failings that you'd expect headlines talking about a countrywide outage affecting that significant of a market.