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Nah, he'll be put in charge of women's health and reproductive rights.

The tax isn't the point. The point is to crash the economy so that the rich can buy up as much as possible as cheaply as possible, once more consolidating more wealth into their hands and robbing it from the rest of us. They don't care if the price of eggs, or iPhones, or any other goods are going to increase, they have the funds to wait that out, but when the cost of ownership of land, property or corporations goes down, they can buy them up and control that wealth once it recovers.

They don't care that you suffer. They just want to own all the stuff.

Edit: wow, 8 hours later and I'm already proven right: https://lemmy.nz/post/21369385

DNSNet, it's a FOSS app on F-Droid, works on pretty much all apps, as it acts like a vpn but runs entirely locally.

This annoys me to an unreasonable degree. We're watching Shameless (US) and they are constantly gesticulating with empty coffee cups and I get mad every time.

I use Qobuz, and I like it a lot. You can easily download music for offline listening, there's a lot of high def on there, and from what information is known about how much streaming services pay back to record labels, Qobuz appears to be the biggest payer per stream.

The app is no frills, they only added auto generated playlists a year or so ago. Their recommendations are less tailored, but high quality if you're wanting to explore outside your usual tastes.

Plus, it's just music. No podcasts, no audiobooks, no games, no generative ai for some reason.

Yeah I looked at Fossify keyboard, but it doesn't have swipe typing, which I find quicker on my phone.

I'll eventually be putting together a personal blog of my mini cloud server setup, when I have something written, I'll post it here.

Oh it's still very much a work in progress. I've been on GrapheneOS for a little over a month now. The VPS I've had for a few weeks. There's still a tonne to do to properly degoogle, but the plan is coming together.

The app I'm missing most at the mo, is GBoard. I'm using FUTO keyboard as a replacement, but its swipe to type is nowhere near as good as GBoard. I have to be a lot more precise with where my thumb swipes, and I end up correcting or manually typing around 10% of words. You could be quite imprecise on GBoard and it would figure out what you wanted, FUTO takes more effort.

I've installed GrapheneOS on my phone, liking how clean an OS it is. There's a bit of a learning curve to set things up, but it's working nicely. I feel more in control of my phone.

I've been working on a personal cloud server, hosted on a VPS running NextCloud with Collabora for file management and document editing. I've got some other apps on there as well, still setting things up but I'm enjoying the infrastructure challenge.

I've switched over to OpenStreetMap for navigation. It's certainly not Google maps, but the navigation works well.

Using my hosting provider for my email as I can use my own domain, running on a simple exchange server. Migrating from gmail after 20 years is a long and arduous process, I think I'll be finished some time this year.

I just recently set up a private NextCloud instance and had OnlyOffice integrated for document editing, until I tested it on my phone and saw you needed to pay for a license to edit documents on mobile. Went with Collabora instead, which is working nicely. Dodged a bullet there.

Yep, there's been no repeal of the GDPR laws, so they are still officially on the books in the UK.