To be fair, a lot of those depend on some client side trust. Which is conceptually stupid, but it is the way it is.

They sometimes hand out codes “to be used only by firefighters and paramedics, wink wink”.

I will probably have to go the route of two phones soon. One for my stuff and communicating with friends and family, and one (maybe one of the cheaper iphones?) for all the “required” apps.

Funny enough, you tend to see quite some people in China do this. I wonder why.

This. Alternative OS exist: Ubuntu Touch, postmarketOS, SailfishOS, just to name a few.

What is missing are the apps people want. And those include mostly commercial apps, where the developers need to weigh dev hours vs profits, and decide to only target the big two for obvious reasons. That is the key problem.

Ouch. Yeah, the self-medication is a big problem in our society. Congrats to working your way out of it!

Yup, same. I know some people that really seem to become less sharp with prolonged pot use. There is no free lunch, all drugs, when taken regularly, fuck you up. But, at the end we all die, so I’m going to enjoy a beer and a smoke every now and then. Just don’t make it a habit, and when in any doubt, do less or quit.

Certainly not by letting these dirty foreigners in the country. Those wild people with their 50 kids… wait.

I disagree on one point: the job of the education system is not to produce new workers, but to produce citizens. If I were I charge, I would force all stem students to take humanities courses. We have enough narrow-minded tech Bros.

Imagine thinking there is no corruption up there, or no taxes down there