Hoodedcrow

Never really thought of this! But I do sometimes find downloads that come with the booklet scans and that's always interesting to see.

Eh, I feel like data gets sold around so much that it could find a way to harm or at least impact you, especially if it's this extensive.

Also I personally am not even a Westerner, for me Chinese data collection could indeed impact me more directly than Google's.

First - a lot of things are just not on there. And second - not allowing alternative sources gets really bad when said store is asked to censor apps, like, say, proxy clients or alternative social media apps (Newpipe, etc.).

No Google services, but let's not pretend Huawei ones are any better in terms of privacy.

Last time I looked, it didn't even allow installing apps from outside AppGallery at all. Also, I don't think the Huawei services are any less intrusive than privileged Google Play.

For backup, I'd rather do a 3-2-1 together with my other important data, it's not like CDs are the best for general backup anyway.

Books are also the one thing I much prefer to have physically! I can usually get fiction in my language (mostly in secondhand bookstores now), but I still have to get most things digitally. Most books I read are in English and my country isn't English-speaking, so getting them would cost a fortune. And sometimes out-of-print books even in my language are also hard to find due to scarcity. So pdfs and epubs it is.

Seems like CDs are redundant here though, given that they get digitized anyway.

I don't even think this counts because then you'd be paying for the brittle and useless big folding display as well, when all you want is the smaller outer one. Plus the worse repairability.

To be fair, most phones have invasive Google/Apple/Chinese OEM services that work with high privileges and are invasive on their own, without apps. The share of people using degoogled OSes is small enough to assume it isn't the case. And, to be fair, if someone has a degoogled phone, you'd probably know that by now (I say as also a degoogled user XD)

Statements like this are a stretch. This was not the fact of using the OS, but specifically the fact of wiping it. The situation is atrocious enough as is, no need to make up additions.

> Much like with artists 90% of the commercial stuff - copy/ads with generic guy in suit picture - will be AI that is "good enough".

Eh, wouldn't be sure. Every time I see slop in such a context, it makes my day worse. And usually ensures I wouldn't go to that business, or at least unconsciously biases me against it.

> It's important to remember that to this day, streaming sites do not have a full archive of the music out there.

And even if they did, you'd still need to pirate a copy of your collection to own it (as there's a chance not all of it is sold digitally and DRM-less).

"Eat less meat, smaller homes, no flights"? Sounds like an average person to me because of poverty, lol. Even my family, well above the threshold for poverty, has to do this.

"Electric cars" is less likely tho because having a car at all is a money drain.

Big thanks for clearing that out! Makes sense.