If I had to guess, leasing made a vibrant secondary market, which enjoys a steady stream of new cars/trucks, so financing options displaced a portion of the durability. Or should I say, shifted the durability.
You must be a millenial. No worries, a Gen-X'r here, and I enjoyed buying our last two cars at Cartelligent (Sausalito). Pay a small fee, and have the car delivered to your driveway, sign paperwork, orientation and away you go.
Only reason I have a Twitter account is apparently it is the BEST way to deal with TMobile's T-Force, to really get shit done. Otherwise, I consider Twitter a cesspool...a sideshow for the truly bored.
Have been considering encrypting locally (which pCloud already does, but at the cost) using File Guard extension on Chrome, and Cryptomator on Android. All encryption passwords to be stored in BitWarden.
I didn't kill off my gmail accounts, but they all forward to my ProtonMail accounts for those contacts that haven't been updated to my ProtonMail accounts yet. Those get handled piecemeal, which is pretty easy.
I'd recommend trying these Google Alt's: Protonmail or Fairmail for email. DuckduckGo or Bromite for low-ad/tracker browsing, or button down your Chrome with Umatrix/UBO and a host of other extensions (Privacy Badger, Canvas Blocker, etc.) Been using Protonmail beta's Calender feature with success, can't wait for their Android App. Have begun pulling all my photos off Photos and moving to both local drives and PCloud, and considering encrypting them at rest there too. DDG/SearX for Search. NextDNS for secure and adfree DNS mimicing PiHole (which I have at home) when away. If you want to keep your awesome Android hardware (OnePlus6T here), you can disable Google Services Framework and neuter everything at will using NetGuard, with the paid version allowing individual link granularity, so you can stop that Facebook link Spotify spawns upon launch, among all others. This allows you to fine tune each app to comm with only links you allow. FB is particularly pesky..once it fails to connect to it's obvious servers, it spawns other numerical IP's that you have to do lookups on to see where/who they are...often returning to FB, so it's an ongoing task, recommended only for those most commited. I was on this path well before Shoshana's book, but her presentation was reaffirming.
EDIT: of course...Signal, how did I forget that..most used app of all.
DuckduckGo or Bromite for low-ad/tracker browsing, or button down your Chrome with Umatrix/UBO and a host of other extensions (Privacy Badger, Canvas Blocker, etc.)
Been using Protonmail beta's Calender feature with success, can't wait for their Android App.
Have begun pulling all my photos off Photos and moving to both local drives and PCloud, and considering encrypting them at rest there too.
DDG/SearX for Search.
NextDNS for secure and adfree DNS mimicing PiHole (which I have at home) when away.
If you want to keep your awesome Android hardware (OnePlus6T here), you can disable Google Services Framework and neuter everything at will using NetGuard, with the paid version allowing individual link granularity, so you can stop that Facebook link Spotify spawns upon launch, among all others.
This allows you to fine tune each app to comm with only links you allow. FB is particularly pesky..once it fails to connect to it's obvious servers, it spawns other numerical IP's that you have to do lookups on to see where/who they are...often returning to FB, so it's an ongoing task, recommended only for those most commited. I was on this path well before Shoshana's book, but her presentation was reaffirming.
EDIT: of course...Signal, how did I forget that..most used app of all.
Here Maps has nothing to do with Huawei..I don't see how a single nav app 'surprises millions of users' about Huawei's desire to be free from Google, and further, while I like Here Maps, it is most certainly not 'stunning'.
