What if all I have is a stationary phone? Oh, forgot to say, it's in a box... and there's no actual phone.
OpenStars
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Oh that's good to know, thanks. I wonder if it was something special for my instance, or perhaps using Blokada (I thought there were no ads in it, but I can't imagine running a phone without that:-), or something else entirely. If I hadn't moved to PieFed already I would have submitted a bug report. Perhaps I still should if it would help others.
But your scenario at least lessens the projected scenarios of who may be affected, which is good for the sake of making the Fediverse easier to use by more people:-).
Where I am at, it will be 80 °F (27 °C) in a couple days so... not quite here for me, not yet. But presumably one day! Maybe. Probably. Hopefully!? 😂
Eventually... maybe... we'll see I guess!? 😉
The video topic overall is thus, but within that is mention of how the "massively fatal pandemic in recent memory" has affected change, in the sense of doing some harm to people on disability, and thereby pointing to how some very foundational issues need to be worked out in order to even begin to make "real change in public health funding/policy/etc". In particular, there would need to be some stability in terms of governance. Which the end of that video actually points to quite a success story in terms of reaching that, especially illuminating how stagnation != stability, yet that can be accounted for and dealt with by lawmakers if they so choose.
The graphic was to forestall an objection as to why "bUt MuH gOvErNmEnT" is non-functional: it is non-functional b/c it was literally designed to be that way. Two examples that readily spring to mind are how the post office used to deliver mail in 3 days time, while now it can be weeks if your letter ever arrives at the destination at all, and how horrific taxes are to have to be filled out and filed - despite how the government mostly seems to know how much you owe regardless - due to heavy lobbying by the tax preparation software industry.
Those who know...
But it is still called "winter", RIGHT!? :-P
I-I'm not showing a picture of that tho! :-P
In the membrane, ofc!
John Olivier (of Last Week Tonight) has an interesting video showing how those checks automatically sent out did some active harm in some cases.
Mind you, this is after government was defunded for decades, thus offering strong "who killed hannibal" vibes.
I had loads of communication problems trying to use Voyager on Android - I wonder if it was b/c it may not work as well for non-Lemmy.World accounts? (the one I tried to have it work with was on Discuss.Online) Like I would reply to someone but not be able to see my reply, or receive a notification and not be able to see their message to me, and refreshing did not work, nor did simply waiting minutes of time, though force-quitting the app and reloading always did.
Now I switched to PieFed so it doesn't matter, but basically I think you have to just download apps and try them until you find one you like b/c there's always going to be something.
Disinformation is very real. Many people think they are doing the right thing... even as they turn you in to the gestapo.
None of us are fully immune, though dayum some are a helluva lot more gullible than others.