Maybe try knowing what you're talking about first. My bank's app, Paypal, Venmo, and all of the major MFA apps work fine on Graphene.

Except the continued layoffs of tens of thousands of people, the multitudes losing their homes because they haven't been able to find a job, etc. etc.

Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

That's some serious verbal diarrhea...

I love how this is scored up as Insightful but it completely lacks any insight at all. It's just conjecture with no supporting evidence.

The cost of the bits flung around to facilitate the transaction don't get more expensive with higher cost transactions. Allowing it to be a percentage allows the banks, etc. to keep complaining about nebulous "costs" and working to increase that more or less free revenue they'll get from it, because that's what it's really about.

Surely one day they'll stick, right? Even the wettest greasiest skin will dry out and finally they'll stick and the wound will heal, right!?

When will people fucking learn that dumb shit like this is like trying to control weeds by cutting the visible part off. The under 15 crowd will just use other means to get access, and nothing will be fixed. The real solution is to regulate media and marketing, divorce the abuse of psychology from it, impose punishment/fines that aren't a slap on the wrist, then actually fucking enforce them to the fullest.

Then maybe we'll see some improvement. It also takes parents being actual parents. Stop letting the Internet at large raise your kid(s).

Cool. Not everyone is that capable. Social media abuses psychology to ensnare people and keep them. It's not unlike someone dosing you with heroin without telling you (yeah, this is hyperbole, but only sort of). Sure, you may have no interest in it normally and thus be able to resist any pressure to use it, but when it's being administered in such an insidious way, you just about can't help but become an addict.

And they'll be shipping a phone with Graphene OS soon, so we're not tethered to a Pixel device anymore.

Except Google Pay killed personal payments quite a while ago, which was what I used it for to try to get away from PayPal to begin with.

Why should the rest of us give a shit? Why even give them the attention? They're both shitheads who don't care about the regular person.

"But that aside... why is "old Reddit" anything more than a skin / display layer over "new Reddit"?"

I'd say the "new" reddit is the skin, not the old, and it's more than just visual. New reddit gives subreddits and mods more power over what you see and how you can interact. I recently tried at least allow subreddit custom themes on the old reddit interface and a sub has a rule (paraphrased) "no downvoting unless you meet $ArbitraryCriteria" So I turned off the stupid theming crap and then hit the downvote like I should've been able to anyway without any stupid hoops or special rules/privileges. I'll stick with old reddit as long as I can, when it goes away, reddit will probably become even less of a time-sink than I've already reduced it to.

Hey biggaijin, how's that boot tasting, you servile maggot?

They wanted to cash in (no pun intended) on the social media aspect. I had to finally get a Venmo acct and I found the whole thing to be patently stupid. I'm not trying to use my sales/purchases as clout or whatever the fuck they envisioned. I don't want a payment social media account. I just want to be able to send/receive money with minimal fuckery/bullshit.

This was my first thought. This also gives all the manufacturers a heads up to quickly change things to putting it all in separate apps if they aren't now so that if the case does prevail and move on, they can throw their hands up and say "we're not doing anything wrong!"

Lol, "Who cares, we've lost the privacy war already, just relax and spread your butt cheeks and welcome the fucking!" *posts anonymously, supposedly for Internet points*

Get the fuck out of here.