For me it wasn’t just “an app”. Your launcher defines your entire phone experience. I had used Nova for so long and tweaked it juuust the way I liked it. To me, that was my phone. It was daunting to try and switch.

Used Nova for close to ten years. Switched last year to Kvaesitso.

I recommend everyone still using Nova to look into options and switch. It’s not as scary as it seems.

Well try aren’t brute forcing 150 chars, that’s for sure, but don’t mistake that as the same as “they’re not getting in”.

Thanks I fucking hate it.

But the fact that it’s relatively easy to download and backup makes me confident that someone, somewhere, will rehost it should it go down. Hell, I’d even take a crack at it.

It’s kind of the point of federation, too. An instance can go down but anyone who federated with them will still have that data.

It existing somewhere is better than nothing, though. Internet archive on the other hand, that one is a lot harder.

My LG has been safe so far.

Your comment wording implied cause to my reading.

Look, I’m not a huge fan of capitalism but it’s a little silly to pretend that the world was free from corruption prior to capitalism.

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https://youtu.be/yc2udEpyPpU

You have a point except the portability. A single USB drive is infinitely more portable than a large cd collection.

Good to know, thanks!

Usually up to a limit.

You still get the tax deduction if you donate at the till, fyi. The store does not (nor would it make any sense to, anyway - if they claim it as profit, then claim it as donation, the net is zero).

(they do not get to claim your donations as tax deductions, that is a myth)

You should not donate if you do not know what the cause is. I’ve never seen a collection at the till that doesn’t state what charity it benefits. If it’s a nonprofit charity, it will have things like financial reports that you can peruse. I recommend Charity Navigator to see how your donations are spent. I generally don’t donate to any charity that does not report its executive spending.

Would love to see the result of this search, if you wouldn’t mind linking.

I’m not okay with basically anything that occurs under capitalism, but I have limited time on this earth and I have to pick and choose my battles.

Correct, and I did not repudiate that. It is a bargain that I think is worth striking.

I donate a fair bit of money relative to my income bracket. Sometimes it’s directly to places that need it. Sometimes it’s by donating goods instead of money. Sometimes it’s by entering raffles at work, or buying candy from kids at the store, or a coupon book from veterans.

And sometimes it’s by donating at the till. Look, corpos suck. But one of the only good things they do is solicit donations at the till.

Stores process thousands and thousands of transactions a day, and if even only a handful of those people decide to round up or add a little bit more on top, it adds up to so much money for good causes that I guarantee would not otherwise ever get donated.

And please, please can we put this myth to rest: in no country that I am aware of can a company claim your donations on their taxes. Those donations are yours and yes, you can claim them on your taxes if you are willing to do the work of keeping the receipt and itemizing your deductions. I do this every single year.