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Cake day: April 17th, 2025

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  • You can toggle mic off through quick tiles to be sure it’s off. Same as location, Bluetooth etc.

    Tbh I don’t believe at all that phones record you, they leak enough info in every other way that they don’t need to spy on your conversions.

    grapheneOS has a metric shittonne of features that allow much better seperation between apps, sandboxes all Google services so you can control it’s permissions (or not use/install them) and much more

    You can leak a lot less data with it, not using/installing google services, using PWA/webpage shortcuts instead of apps, focusing on using FOSS software over proprietary, etc




  • I got LASIK about 10 years ago. Can confirm both the visual experience of watching them laser/scalpel my lens off, as well as the highly unique smell of buring eye. Along with the painful light sensitivity that persisted for like a year. Hell I got a USB at the end with a video of the procedure to relive.

    Totally worth it though











  • Mechanics I’ve seen to avoid this:

    • Occasional sitewide freeleech
    • bonus points for seeding duration irregardless of upload, can be traded for reducing download
    • freeleech torrents (only counts upload not download)
    • partial freeleech (25/50/75% download counted)
    • Timed freeleech (free first 24h)
    • Download % counted reduced based on seed size (seed >1tb and everything’s freeleech)
    • Reduction of download % counted based on rank
    • Forum competitions for bonus points/freeleech tokens
    • Freeleech tokens giveouts

    Hell, there’s quite a few PT’s that don’t care about ratio and just have minimum seeding times on torrents.

    Plenty of these trackers have been running 1-2 decades on 1 or more of these methods just fine.

    Almost every site is laughably easy to keep ratio if you read the rules/FAQ, look at some what’s to build points/ratio, read the forums, and don’t go nuts In the first week while your establishing your account