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@thegreenguy It doesn’t, but if you’re lucky, your city might have a transit app itself (mine does). Even if chances are that it’s not open source either, you’ll still be able to cut your dependency to Google to a certain extent.

@tootnbuns

@Kit It’s just a different experience to see the picture on a bigger screen.

@baatliwala Now I feel old…

@PhlubbaDubba @tardigrada You still need email for pretty much most services. You need to log in? Create an account using your email and password. Need to work somewhere? A phone number is essential, but the employers will also use your email to message you if you cannot be reached on the phone (happened to me once) or when sending video call invites.

WhatsApp is ubiquitous when it comes to chatting, but for more elaborate communications, email still rules.

@Skua Pretty low, I think, as Romarm is just another state enterprise whose main purpose is to justify the paychecks of some politically appointed directors of the governing coalition, while the factories themselves contain old machinery, are in conservation (official lingo for “abandoned”) or sold to scrap to make room for real estate projects or shopping centers. They did however encounter a surge in demand lately since the war began. I am sure that there are other post-communist states that can contribute with the production too, though, so we can have it at an acceptable level.

@chonglibloodsport well, for them it is their country. They had all the right in the world to return and fight for a change just as they had all the right to stay inside their adoptive countries in a relative safety (provided the Kremlin would not assassinate them there). They chose the former, probably thinking they would make a bigger impact inside the country. Well, turns it wasn’t such a great idea.

@Five