gravitywell

Well I dont have to change it monthly if i don't want to but I happen to want to because it makes it harder to track and create a profile If I do. My actual phone/SMS service stays the same either way and routes over XMPP.

The cost of the phone is why most average people get suckered in to long term contracts.

A lot less pain then getting stuck paying off $1000 phone and over $300 for service. I guess some people just prefer to get ripped off

Lock ins are only a problem if you sign a contract to get your phone costs subsidised. The solution is not physical sims, its stop buying over priced shiney things with a contract just cuz MaBell will give you a "deal". You can almost always get a better deal yourself if you are willing to look for it.

I pay in a year less then most ppl pay for a month of the same exact service, but instead of paying T-Mobile or Verizon $40 I pay $4 for the same amount of data. Instead of buying the latest phone I get a used one that will get updates for the next 3+ years.

I don't see how apple or Verizon or anyone else could really ever make this setup not work for me unless they lobby congress to destroy MVNOs and used phone resale.

I like eSIMs now because I can get a different account every month, data only and then I use jmp.net to have SMS and voice call services with a permanent number for when I need that. Its cheaper then anything else and more private too.

I don't know who you've been getting your esims from but it I've used simjuno and nadanada both are pretty easy to setup.

The type of folks who avoid Anubis because of the mascot don't deserve good bot protection anyway. Its like reverse gate keeping, the corpo dorks filter themselves out.

Antifandom.com works great to avoid them

Don't pay for a VPN using your bank or credit card

Well there have been multiple attempts but I don't think target assassinations would help, we need a general strike, but failing that people just refusing to work is probably about as good as it will get. As long as capitalists can still make the line go up they aren't going to care and will continue to support and utilize police forces against the rest of us.

But don't you get it , if the Republicans win it will get worse faster. If you elect Democrat the camps they eventually agree too send you to will be so much nicer and dignified.

Before you get too far into reinventing the wheel, you might want to check out xmmp or webamp which both do a fine job of supporting Opus, Ogg, and FLAC.

I set mine up with support for ever winamp skin i could find

This is why my goal now is to just copy and share as much as possible, they spent decades saying it was theft only to give AI corps a free pass and then some. I'm now a private AI company so its not piracy its just "training data"

A lot of folks just make their money because the line goes up, then instead of spending that money they borrow more using their old money (stocks) as collateral. So long as the line goes up those people have basically a continuing stream of income and credit.

Whenever it stops going up long enough for them to care they will start to introduce their version of UBI which will probably be something like Mr Lee's KongBucks because every single one of these fuckers seems to have gotten the exact wrong message out of the novel Snow Crash.