Where I am, the median salary is around $400-$500. I know how you feel.

Well-to-do? That is weird, because here not having a washing machine in the apartment would be weird even for a poor person.

I don’t see a “justification” in my reply. I cannot change or influence the system, I need the discounts - so I do that.

No I have not, heard it is offensive and unfunny.

Especially given that some of the common budget devices, like Huawei, lacks Google services. It is the reason why all the major banks here except one don’t require Google services.

The more insane thing here for me is the fact that there isn’t a washing machine inside your apartment.

(btw lived in such once, apparently the owner wasn’t very wealthy. We washed everything by hand)

I have seen a bit of that, but every time it turned out to have an option without. For example, one chain wanted you to use an app for making orders - but when you say “I am sorry, I have a dumbphone”, it turns out there is a tablet for this on the reception.

I use a loyalty card pretty often. It’s just that it is almost always another customer’s card) And in case this is not available - a barcode of some rando’s loyalty card I found online, the valid ones are often easy to find.

At least you can not only ask other customers for their cards, but also sometimes be offered theirs without even asking.

Wouldn’t a quadruped be easier? You can stick arms onto a robotic “dog”.

Most of my library is scans of paper books. I wish more of my reading was in native epub and not automatically recognized with tons of mistakes, but eh, whatever.

Fennec right now, switched before Ironfox was out and now switching would be painful as there is no export, so all manual…

I just use a Firefox derivative there as well, because of Ublock. Tried Vanadium but the adblocking was just not good.

The overwhelming majority of my library is actually not digital-native - rather, pdf or djvu scans. I should really contribute to Libgen by scanning some of my library.

Or DRMless digital. But yeah, they need to coexist with paper ones.

Host a Tor node or bridge right now if it is safe for you))

You can ban big hosting providers, but even here they’re cautious with measures like that because it would break WAY too much. Not to mention that you could just use a lesser-known one, even if it doesn’t operate in the country legally.

I am experiencing such banning of providers right now. It is a whack-a-mole, seems futile. Not to mention that most people use sketchy free noname VPNs that are just too numerous. Or apparently some people set up basic XRay/VLESS/whatever and sell it via a Telegram bot…

Interestingly, I am now going through some album series that are not on Youtube, but are on Spotify. It is frustrating because I can’t use Spotify on my phone (browser is incompatible), but I can Youtube, so music discovery is desktop-only. Good thing all of them are on Soulseek, though.