I suppose switching back to a card wouldn’t be a total disaster, but it wouldn’t improve privacy unfortunately. My banks debit cards use vpay anyway (and as far as I know all of them use either vpay or maestro) so US companies will know about all our payments either way…

Does e-os support mobile payments yet?

A Big-tech free phone os sounds really appealing, but for me, a lack of mobile payment would be a reason to seriously consider sticking with ios when my current phone needs replacement.

Well, the nazis did make a lot of scientific progress…

/s, just in case

But who has an RSS reader (app) these days? Everyone has a web browser. Still an RSS feed would be a lot better than anything controlled by a commercial party, X, Facebook, whatever…

I think no government should depend on any commercial platform to communicate with its citizens. As low tech as possible and workable would be best I suppose, so maybe just a website? Mastodon could work too I guess.

I am having trouble with the absence of centralized communities. For many many topics communities seem to exist on multiple instances and that splits up the user base and discussions it seems. I get that it is an inherent part of the design, but it hurts my experience.

Also the number of users seems to be too low still to create a lively environment. I hope that changes but so far the number of posts and comments on those posts seems a bit low compared to what I was used to.

Having said all that, I love the app (I am using voyager) and the general vibe of the people on here. Let’s hope on more users and a continued constructive community!

It’s quite sad to read the comments on that article though. Not at all in line with the 55% agreement on a boycott as the article states.

Over here in the Netherlands that is the case too. Company leased cars come at the cost of a bit of extra taxes (some might say quite a bit), but the boss pays for the car so it’s a great deal nevertheless. My issue remains though: how do normal people afford an EV? It seems that cars in-general, but EVs in particular have beat inflation by quite a bit when it comes to price increases. How are we supposed to afford a decent car? I earn quite a bit more than average in my country, but besides the fortune I spend on my house and groceries (let’s not even mention vacation) I really cannot even afford the tiniest of VW petroleum car, let alone an ID4 EV.

I’d love to buy one aswell, but seriously how are people affording these EVs? At 45k€ this ID4 is just ridiculously expensive expensive for someone like me that has a regular job…

Not sure this is correct though. Of course all these companies are multinationals, but not all of these are American companies. For example Unilever is British and Nestle is Swiss (have not checked them all).