That’s a glowing recommendation of Signal. And a good reminder to donate. I’m doing it right now.

Celebrity/billionaire worship. Just no. It means their values are wildly erratic.

This is how you become a trillionaire. Nothing has been stopping them from being a monopoly, so why stop now.

If they are allowed to do it, then it’s hard to blame them. They have free reign to do everything. Destroying the environment, obliterating competition, and enshittifying their own products along the way.

Welcome to the future now.

Originally I thought I could, but no. Because when I listen to the music, I’m giving that artist money, attention, and power.

That results in giving them a bigger platform to spew their bigoted opinions/actions is counterintuitive to my goals. I would rather not.

This would only be meaningful if it wasn’t collected in the first place.

I’ve bought every single generation of an Apple Watch, and I returned it every time.

I wanted to love it so much, but I couldn’t.

It’s just a glorified notification system.

Anytime I got a notification on it, or wanted to use it for something, it was faster and far more convenient to just pull out my phone and do whatever I needed to.

The only thing I found it good for was controlling music from a distance, but that’s not an important use case for me and definitely not worth the price tag, plus the recurring data plan. It’s a money and attention hog, just like any other smartphone.

What’s even scarier is that takeout is probably only the data they want you to see, or are legally obliged to share.

I would be willing to wager they have lots more on you that you’re not even aware of.

Power Delete Suite still works AFAIK: https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

In addition to uninstalling the client (RIF), you should poison your Reddit posts, and then delete your account.