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First xmanager went away and I was devastated

Now revanced Spotify doesn't seem to work and I feel defeated.

I feel the cat and mouse game with spotify has caught up and I should just ditch Spotify altogether. Do you guys have any solutions?

There's a metal bezel mod that I have on my casio watch that I got from china for $10, I would rather spend more money if it was made in a place with fair practices but it doesn't exist anywhere except aliexpress. There are a bunch of other items stuff like screen protectors and electronics that aren't made in the US for consumers to buy and that's a damn shame.

My point is, the tariffs are supposed to get us to manufacture more stuff in house and be more independent but I don't think it will work. If you look at China's playbook, they didn't impose massive tariffs on the world but still managed to be a global manufacturing warehouse out if nothing. China pretty much just subsidizes a bunch of their companies and gives them major tax breaks, along with giving them money if they sell internationally.

If the orange rapist wants to do this, then why doesn't he just copy the same thing, give incentives to manufacture goods instead of punishing consumers? The reason people aren't buying in house, is because we don't make anything in house.

So I have a young teen entering 7th grade and so they're about to receive their first phone. With that, it opens a lot of doors to all the big tech social media apps and privacy invasive services.

I'm not sure how to approach this. My parents probably want tracking features so it'll probably be Find My or a 3rd party app like life360 depending on if we choose iphone or degoogled pixel.

Social media I'm not sure if fediverse stuff is the right path especially for lemmy, since it's just tech nerd stuff and politics which isn't interesting really unless they go out of their way to find smaller communities. Their friends will probably force them onto Instagram or some shit and I don't really want them doomscolling on reels, that shit algorithm, and the malicious messaging app built in to it.

It's just kinda hard trying to blend being a functional member of society and maintain your mental well being and privacy.

So my mom promised my little sibling a phone in a few months.

As of now, they have no social media or anything, just a Steam account and Spotify I made with an email alias.

I have the feeling their friends will rope them in to mainstream social media and I have no idea how to combat this or even if I should. Fediverse social media is not even there yet and as for messaging, idk if these guys will find it batshit crazy to use Signal or not.

My main fear is just social media addiction, depression, and the big tech guys stealing personal information.

I'm thinking maybe we get an iphone because my mom still wants the tracking feature for peace of mind and some different phone number for social media.

Graphene phone might be a little hardcore so not gonna go that route, iphone with lockdown mode and no icloud should be fine.

For things like email, thinking protonmail for email because I'm used to it but I'm not sure.

Any suggestions? Do y'all think I'm crazy?

Google recently open sourced Pebble and today, Repebble has put some of the watches up for preorder.

So I've been running like a mile each day for 3 days out of the week. But I've laid it off since I've been getting a lot of plantar fascitis, knee pain, and pain around my shins.

I'm not even that old. I'm very confused, maybe there are some exercises I can do? Went to a running shoe store and they recommended me some more cushioning shoes like a glycerin gts 22.

Any tips, recommendations, comments, or suggestions would be appreciated.

Went to a running shoe store and they got me measured up and fitted. Bought some insoles since they said it could help with my plantar fasciitis.

I guess I feel less pain at the end of the day. I hope it will be better once I get new shoes.

Reached for a paper towel and left two thumb sized tears in the towel.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c07kr292k8go

If you asked me like 4-8 years ago, I felt kind of neutral about things. Now I don't feel an ounce bit patriotic or proud enough to even state that I'm an American.

Now, when I see an American flag around, I see it as a symbol of fascism, anti-intelluctialism, neo-nazism, and late-stage capitalism amongst other things. If there's an American flag flying on a car, I can totally see that person possessing at least one of those qualities.

I suppose it's good to be self aware and not blindly feel patriotic and ignoring that your country needs improvement.

I don't know what I'm expecting in the comments here but just thought I would get this off my chest.

So I've been thinking about this as my community is watching reports of FBI unload heroin, cocaine, fentanyl crossing the border. As my family is talking about how they should deport all the democrats on the left, I was thinking how this wouldn't fix anything.

War on drugs will go on and on because of who? People who buys the hard drugs. Who buys hard drugs? Happy people working a regular job? No, I would think a happy person doesn't just shoot up some heroin. Homeless people, sad and depressed people, the people society treats like trash.

The war on drugs is really a war on the working class if you think about it. If we fix wealth inequality, I have no doubt that there will be less drugs on the streets. Of course, we will still want drug rehab and stuff but in the big picture, it's getting people to not even try drugs in the first place.

But you know, that's just a theory...a game theory.

Right now, we just started a Kiwico Tinker crate subscription but after some more research, I feel like going with the Mark Rober Crunchlabs box instead. He seems to have pretty fun boxes and good educational videos, similar to or better than his (older) yt videos.

Thoughts? Opinions? Would be appreciated below.