KrummsHairyBalls

Rent went from $900 to $1600. Gas went from $1 to $2.20.

So ya. Everything has doubled or more.

So is Epic.

Buying exclusivity rights to games so people will be forced to use your platform is the most crooked shit.

20% pay raise isn't enough, though. My grocery bill is OVER 2x the money for the same items. That means we need an over 100% pay raise.

I said this a few months ago and I was downvoted lmao.

When grocery prices go from $4 to $8, that's a 100% increase. Or when prices go from $2.50 to $8 that's a 220% increase.

Might not seem so bad on paper, but when you add it all together on your full grocery bill, it's turning the final bill from $100 to $200-250, which is bat shit insane.

I bought knock off mustard yesterday. Normal sized bottle. Cost me $8.

I know I will be hated for my input, but I use Firefox, pay for YouTube Premium, and my load times are fast. My browser choice hasn't caused any slow experiences.

Not that I have to justify my purchase, but it's $25 CAD per month, and I split it between my 5 family members. $5 CAD for ad-free on all my platforms plus YouTube Music, PLUS more money going to creators (as confirmed by Technology Connections on YouTube), I am fine paying a few bucks. Content creators have to get paid, and I hate sitting through ads, so it's a win-win in my books. I also don't want to waste time using third party apps, using DNS adblocking, pihole, etc. just to get a decent experience across my devices.

I'm sure my opinion will be taken very respectfully on Lemmy.

H.265 on my phone is not 50% the size. Maybe ~25% less at maximum.

E2EE is one of the main points of iMessage. Security minded iMessage users are not going to feel comfortable if a Sunbird user is on the other end.

You could say the same about RCS. Apple's implementation of RCS next year will not have e2ee, at least not at first.

Can't wait to lose my RCS e2ee thanks to Apple.

Yes, North America between Android and iPhone.

I use RCS with everyone except iPhone users, which defaults to SMS.

Well if you look back and read, you'll see where I said I'm not sending baby pics, so no, I'm not juggling separate apps.

If someone wants to send me a pic, MMS is fine, because it's good enough quality to get the point across. If I cared about quality, I'm not using any messenger, including signal, to send my photos. I'll send them uncompressed another way.

Signal removing SMS fallback was dumb, plain and simple. I've switched to Google messages now where I can use encrypted RCS and fallback to SMS.

• Any of the million storage options (Proton Drive, OneDrive, Gmail, Mega, etc)
• Google Photos in full quality
• Sending a public link that is self hosted on my NAS

I dont use MMS, I use RCS, and even then, if I cared about quality, I am not sending it directly via any chat service as they will compress it.

Exactly.

I also prefer not to have one of the most garbage companies apps on my phone (WhatsApp). The messages may be encrypted, but the location data and storage permissions you're giving it aren't.

I.too.prefer.dots.over.spaces.