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Cake day: June 3rd, 2025

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  • I know it’s cliché to call anonymous commenters shills, but that sentence has major shill energy.

    I also know I shouldn’t “feed the trolls”, but your comment did amuse me.

    Me? Shilling for Visa/Mastercard? Oh, boy. I was merely asking questions, so I can understand “how can I move away from visa/mc, as soon as possible”.

    It’s interesting cute that this is what you’re getting hung up on.

    Who says “your favourite online store”, honestly.

    Sorry, I said “favorite online store”, mate ;)

    Cheers



  • From what I’ve read, it appears that it’s simply one time, transactions.

    Surely, they couldn’t be that short sighted. This means no “saving for payment information” on your favorite online store.

    Also, it seems this is heavily tied to your bank account, which kind of makes me a bit nervous. I like fintech solutions and being able to create “one time use debit cards” or debit cards with a maximum balance and at the moment, I don’t understand how wero will fill this gap.

    … but I really hope I’m wrong or some fintech will “step up” and make wero a legitimate replacement for visa/master card.



  • From a user’s perspective, when you install an app, you can:

    1. Determine if that app is allowed to access the internet.
    2. If it needs access to your contacts, you can share which of your contacts, it can see (or none at all)
    3. If it needs access to your files, you can determine which files/photos/music it sees (or none at all, but the application still believes it has access to everything)

    There are a bunch of other, security features it provides, but from a “normal user” experience, the ability to take control of your data is probably one of the most impactful.

    It is possible to do similar things with other CFW, but AFAIK, graphene is the only one to cleanly integrate it as a polished feature of the ROM.

    edit: fix formatting




  • But everything was rolling, pretty goddamn great until…

    I beg to disagree there. Each year Big Tech has become more and more aggressive in taking control from us, the consumer. Microsoft with the requirements of TPM in order to install windows 11. Google with they’re delaying open source releases of android, preventing apps from being installed unless it’s non-cfw. All tech companies shoveling AI everywhere. John Deere with their vendor lock-in hardware.

    This needed to stop and these companies need to be reminded that “the consumer owns the hardware and that includes functional software (that does not change without the users consent)”.

    Unfortunately, the U.S. Government failed it’s people in defending consumer rights and tbh, the EU hasn’t really done a stellar job either. However, this is certainly the" kick in pants" the EU needs (hopefully) to start to create competition against U. S. Big Tech… and the EU certainly understands that it needs to protect these small EU start-ups as they try to find their footing.

    So, I hope this results in the EU creating laws to “level the playing field”. Which, I hope, actually spurs innovate and Open Standards (something Big Tech has been working hard on suppressing), which will be good for all of us (regardless, if you’re in the EU, U.S., and beyond).

    You’ll notice there is a lot of “hope” in these sentences. I am skeptical, but I can see how this could be “a good thing”.