Ditto, but said with a real accent and not a Kiwi one;)
Beginning to wonder if āfree healthcare fundsā = beer
Came across an old (pretty old) interview I donāt remember doing but definitely didā¦ in case anyone is interested.
The page doesnāt say when the interview was done but the wayback machine has a date of April 2019ā¦ but I know this is older because I do remember this was around the time of my TEDx talk. In fact, she approached me about doing this interview at that eventā¦ so some time around the start of Dangerous Thingsā¦ even the logo she used on the site for Dangerous Things was our original red logo.
Hypothetically, if I stumbled upon a card that seems like it might be a P71 chip like the Apex, would there be a good way to check?
And I probably couldnāt repurpose it to do any cool java-card stuff without knowing some super top-secret password for it, right?
Send an identity command to it
00CA00FE02DF28
It responds to it at least
-----BEGIN RAW NFC DUMP-----
android.nfc.tech.IsoDep
> 00CA00FE02DF28
< 010C0001A1D8D167890044817BBC0208000000000000000103184A335233353130314641394530343030DD0984593B0048EF05010007010108082E5AD88409C9BADB9000
-----END RAW NFC DUMP-----
It is slightly different than the response from my Apex
My progress so far getting rid of my internet addiction :
X account nuked
Instagram account eradicated
Facebook account destroyed
YouTube premium exterminated
Google accountā¦ well you canāt really get rid of this one, can you?
Iām keeping my Google account for:
My youtube channels (and managing other peopleās channels)
My email (changing that would take weeks)
Google Keep, letās be honest itās soo much better than any other notes app
Google maps because none of the competitors are even close
Google drive (I have the yearly 2Tb subscription an itās my main storage)
Google password manager
My Chromecast that I intend to use at some point
Iāve switched from YouTube to NewPipe
Iāve switched from Chrome to Brave
Iām thinking about switching from Drive to Proton 
Anyone degoogle-yfied here? Tips?
Side question:
I have a bunch of Tuya/Google home compatible IOT devices (plugs) is there any chance I can use those with some non chinese non evil software? Google home is plain bad at doing itās job and tuya is great but I hear that Chinese apps collect all your data.
[=] -- 3[18] 'Unknown ???':
[=] 00: 4A 33 52 33 35 31 30 31 46 41 39 45 30 34 30 30 | J3R35101FA9E0400
[=] 10: DD 09 84 59 3B 00 48 EF | ...Y;.H.
[=] -- 8[08] 'Unknown ???':
[=] 00: 2E 5A D8 84 09 C9 BA DB | .Z......
Alright, the Platform and ROM IDs do seem to match the P71
Neat!
I highly rate Waze over google maps for point to point navigation. Significantly better.
You would not use it to browse an area though, google maps is far better for this.
However, OSM is not a bad alternative to google here
I do use gg maps to browse, find business hours, photos etc etcā¦
Although it might be on of the services I have the most beef with
Lately theyāve been taking down my reviews one by one because I reported a few nice hotels for trying to buy Booking.com likes from me though bots.
Iāve had to submit an appeal for every single one and in the end itās just a Google employee that randomly decides if it stays or not.
The irony is my reports of big brands buying likes ( with proof) were taken down for: āIn this case, the specific policy involved is fake engagement.ā
Isnāt that beautiful?
That was the last straw actually, thatās why Iām nuking all my accounts. I donāt want to give any more of my time or money to this corrupt agglomeration of bullshit
Bought up by Google years ago werenāt they? Thats how google maps gets the extra āpolice aheadā etc info.
Iāve been using it since before that happend, and google bought it because it was/is better, and is why google maps got better.
Still, Waze has better turn by turn navigation and their traffic report became more accurate because of the google map users contributing to the data.
So I would call itā¦ google adjacentā¦
Ahh, right on. I only used it for a couple months a few years back, couldnāt stand all the ads.
Maybe a regional thing, I have never seen a single ad 
I used it when I was in the states, but on an NZ sim, still no adsā¦
Where do they put them?
Sameā¦
Provided that I tend to use Google maps when abroad because itās better for finding stuff like restaurants and Iām more familiar with the process for saving offline maps.
Data roaming is expensive and sometimes it doesnāt work at allā¦ So I donāt want to end up getting lost looking for a McDonaldās with free WiFiā¦ 
I should probably look into the offline map functionality of Waze. It doesnāt have this feature. So Google Maps it is for international travel purposesā¦
Have you ever tried Saily?
I can reccomend it.
I think Norton own it (VPN not Motorcycle)
Would you consider a VivoKey supplied nextcloud service if we offered it in 2025?
Yeah I would
my only criteria is >=2Tb cloud storage that works on desktop and mobile. I donāt mind paying for it, I already do.
$ = TB 
Nextcloud has file sync clients for basically everything and of course web access. Iām actually quite impressed with their Android client. Searching files is very fast. I have 5TB on my personal instance and I can find any file on there in seconds with the Android client. Itāll pull it down automatically when I select it and open on the phone.