Good time to leave this shit die in a corner. Not advocating for Trump in any way, mind you, but this utter garbage pollutes the environment more than anything. Quality is usually abysmal so the crap ends up in a landfill sooner rather than later, and additionally all that crap needs to be shipped across the globe.
There are other tools, but their developers aren't publicly known. So I indeed trust into the one man show that is magisk, at least as a full time Google employee who gets his codebase reviewed in-house, there's some more trust than to a random nobody. And he does publish the code and allows for user contributed fixes on github.
That's only available for Pixel phones, and I don't buy from Google.
No, I exactly mean rooting, and it is a hard requirement for me when choosing phones.
If you know what you're doing, there is no security risk involved, since every app requesting for root access needs to be granted individually, and you can opt to do so for a limited time or permanently. Or not grant it at all, obviously.
Tools like AppOps (advanced permission management), Storage Isolation (prevent access to certain folders even if "file access" permission is granted to some app), Ice Box (keep certain apps in a permanent state of hibernation unless you explicitly launch them) are absolute core essentials.
Other apps that enable you to fully remove system apps, system level adblockers, VPN sharing etc. might be optional, and there are no-root workarounds, but they all come with serious limitations.
And people wonder why I keep rooting my Android phones.
Without advanced permission denial and file access restrictions, phones will spy on anything and anyone.
Frag mal die Kollegen, die sich nachts an fahrende Züge kleben...
There was a withdrawal of almost 1M in 2023, and the company's entire equity is basically cash. What you don't find in the balance sheet are salaries paid, which would be to himself alone. The 22k in earnings from investments is merely interest on top.
Sync for reddit grossed over 2 million British pounds - and that's current account balances, I didn't check withdrawals over time. See for yourself, company filings for UK Ltd.'s are public.
https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/08807876
So you might consider sync for Lemmy a passion project since it's not exactly cashing in on the same level, no doubt, but it's a far cry from a lone nerd trying to make ends meet.
You're starting out on a questionable statement there:
Religions are constructs created by humans
According to some scriptures, religion and religious practices are deity-given, and exactly not human constructs.
She absolutely is able to consent. That's what the OP means with 'puritanical', I guess. In the majority of countries worldwide the age of consent is 16; the US are one of the minority countries where it's 18.
And that's exactly why I read German news only, they are paid with tax money and there's a governing body in place that ensures objectivity.
Of course there are private magazines and stuff, but as long as you stay clear of them, you're by and large good to go.