Midnight Wolf

Well, I kind of know what happened in that scenario… because it did. Until Pay, there was Wallet. The original Wallet, not the current one. Wallet had a physical and virtual prepaid debit card, that you would load up and manage in the app. I used it a few times (new tech woo), and distinctively remember ordering at a McDonald’s, the clerk announced the cost, I held my Nexus 7 to the new nfc pad, they started to say ‘uhh no you have to-’ and then a success beep, and their jaw dropped. They thought it was nuts, I told them in a few years ‘this will be everywhere’.

So before Pay, there was Wallet, and it’s own little sandbox of testing if anyone would use this. A couple years later the Wallet card discontinued, and Pay took its place.

That’s kind of a double edged sword though. Android got a foothold because a small scrappy unknown company in silicon valley brought them into the fold…

Aaaaaaany day now… guys…?

(I have a pinephone and no, it is absolutely nowhere near ready)

That is more the fault/worry of the financial sector and not G. The fact that they gave up this amount of leeway is shocking. Their risk tolerance is very low and giving G the ability to manage virtual cards and allow payments with them is huge in itself.

Even Privacy, which does part of the same thing/idea, still only works for some cards, doesn’t work at all for credit cards (last time I checked), and has been in the sector for a similar amount of time.

G had to lock down Pay to appease the financial sector’s risk management. Anything else was DOA.

Yeah, the only people I let hold my devices out of my sight are the ones I’m banging. And even then I still need to unlock the device for them to use it.

I’m not letting Sarah at Starbucks explore my phone files and apps, lol.

Their laptops were known for having root kit drm in them. Their phones are only available in select markets and are massively overpriced (in NA anyway).

Aside from cameras/components and the Playstation, they seem keen to shooting themselves in the foot. I have a bravia TV and it’s… a TV with barebones ‘smart’ features that aren’t used. So kinda following the overpriced trend there too…

To thin out the undesirables. If they aren’t contributing to Russia’s plan of society and order, getting rid of them while also offering cannon fodder is a win-win as far as they are concerned.

Lmfao, it’s nerdy as hell but hilarious

You give me money in exchange for a promise, and I won’t honor that promise when you ask for assistance.

‘you guys are paying for subscriptions?’

There is a Debian-based version available

(yes I know Ubuntu is also based on Debian but LMDE removes the Ubu middle-man)

I have high cholesterol. I can send you some if you want. Promise it will make you live longer, it says so on this lemmy comment…

Maybe yours, but…

Yep - all service providers support porting. The process for tello is very straightforward and self-service. And if tello doesn’t work for you, porting out to somewhere else is also stupid simple and fully self-service on tello.

Yes, it is a process known as ‘porting’. You will need your account number (usually your phone number, but verify that), your port(ing) pin which could be preset by you or a random time-sensitive number set by the (old) carrier, and to make sure the account is unlocked for porting. You then give these details (and your name, address, etc that they verify with the old carrier) and then begin the process. As fast as 60 seconds, as long as a couple of hours. You’ll lose service on the old sim when the new one takes control of the number.

It sounds complex but it’s not - I’ve done it several times with the big 3, their wholly-owned MVNOs, and third parties too. My main concern is a carrier fighting me, trying to retain me as a customer, by withholding my port pin. It’s never happened but I’m always anxious.

If you need more info just let me know =)

E: do NOT CANCEL SERVICE - that is done automatically at the completion of the porting process

Tello is solid, assuming you don’t need support beyond ‘how do I make phone calls’ tier 1 support, and that you don’t regularly get connected to an oversubscribed tower.

I’ve had tello as my second line for years and it’s fine, $6. But I tried to move my folks to it, and the tower we connect to at home is so badly saturated, data literally stops working during the day. Tello uses tmo, and tmo gives MVNOs qci8 (lower is better, 6 is ‘priority’ data for tmo). It’s the only downside to tello (but any tmo mvno will have the same issue).

E: excluding a couple metro by tmo plans, and one specific fi plan

This doesn’t affect unlocked devices, just devices purchased through vzw.

Never buy devices through the carrier. And never get postpaid service unless there is a very specific reason (I used to have AT&Ts highest business plan, to get the top tier data priority; it also cost me $100 a month). Buy the device through the manufacturer, then shop around for prepaid options.

Just over the horizon: monthly subscription 🔋 with drm for when you don’t pay

It was Reuters reporting on the same story

Pornhub’s data with Mixpanel was last accessed by “a legitimate employee account at Pornhub’s parent company in 2023,” according to the statement. “If this data is in the hands of an unauthorized party, we do not believe that is the result of a security incident at Mixpanel.”

E: link

Hacking group ‘ShinyHunters’ threatens to expose premium users of sex site Pornhub - https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/hacking-group-shinyhunters-claims-theft-data-users-leading-sex-site-pornhub-2025-12-16/

I’ve read ‘the last legitimate login was in 2023’ so more like 2 years, but yeah