Make a privacy. Com account

Change all of your card info to one of theirs for 3 months

Cancel

The card

Or just tell your bank to blacklist them and leave it at that

You’ll be taking a credit hit either way

File a complaint with your state’s attorney general and theyll handle it beyond that point when they get to you

Never owned an iPhone

Currently on android purely for alternative os’s

Next phones for my family will either be Linux, if they hold the line, or iPhone if no one does

Why would anyone pick a garbage Android device if they’re as locked down as iOS and costs as much?

Make it shitty, Google. I hope companies that behave as yours are get the same enshitification ending

vger.to/lemmy.world/comment/22656586

As for damages

Say you have a old masonry structure like a masonry brick fence in the way of the easement

They can tear it down and will, and will not replace it with one of comparable quality if they bother to at all

Ive seen some beautiful 1950s work like that where it goes from amazing tradesmen quality masonry and iron fencing to jank 4x4’s and basically chickenwire on the easement, even 2 sections of the masonry/iron fence would take thousands to fix properly from what they did and there’s the likelihood they’ll do it again in the future.

Those are homes of people on fixed incomes or investments. They usually can’t keep fixing the damage. And those fences aren’t really decorations, its not even slightly uncommon for people to die from dog maulings in my area. Happens a few times every single year

Say you have a road, driveway, etc? At some point you will have a massive random pothole or speedbump because they’ll cut a trough right through it and fill it with asphalt not repour expensive concrete. I can in my neighborhood point out four locations where cable and fiber easement companies have done just that

Theres really no eli5, this is a purposely convoluted topic

Best I could offer you is recomemend you go look up the channels Lehto’s Law and The Institute for Justice on YouTube

In the US, easements have a history of being abused to render large areas of privately owned land useless/unusable, to legally trespass, and to harass landowners

There’s a reason for example that American Tribes fight especially hard to prevent easements from oil or rail or really any companies

Cable companies in particular have a reputation of destroying peoples properties, have numerous times now been given insane payouts to build the very infrastructure with taxes that they just bought and in those instances pocketed the money without even a slap on the wrist. Further their involvement indicates that any further infrastructure projects expanding that fiber are basically dead, and for any that exist they’re going to be on life support

Those same bailout companies just got their hands on the easements that were allowed to go to a group who at the least didn’t have that history of abuse, and precedent of the that deal going through so it is more likely to start happening in more places

All of those easements should be considered as dead space and new ones will have to be allocated when expansion is taken up by yet another company on 10 or 20 years when they prove they won’t upgrade or properly maintain theirs to modern needs, that means further encroaching on people’s property

Think of it like sidewalks that moved another 3-4 feet into people’s yards every 10 or so years which you as a homeowner are not allowed to alter or use or complain when their representatives do so

So all of the easement agreements got pushed through by google, and are being taken over by entities who wouldn’t have been able to get those easements due to commujity distrust of their company

I’d sue to have the easement revoked as a community, and for punitive damages hefty enough as a punch to Google’s nose to prevent that type of bad behavior from happening in the future

Not chump change, not cost of operations. Actual punitive damages enough to cut out any profits from the transaction and then some

Look up easement abuse in the US on YouTube, Lehto’s Law or Institute for Justice

From rail, to cable providers, to city municipalities, easements in the US have been utilized maliciously to destroy and seize peoples properties

Why bother asking permission?

In the States, enough people have proven uncivilized enough and willing enough to face the consequences that come with utilizing tools easily and cheaply available at their disposal so that trespassers and even politicians think twice before sending people to mess with other people’s land without asking permission

Yeah I wouldnt trust immich with directly storing it myself

Get that stuff off on its own and have immich access that as shown in Louis Rossmann’s setup video

Think of it like having a dedicated steam drive with the os on its own, so if you have to format or decide to distrohop, you don’t have to download and reinstall a dozen +250GB games

I just rename the immich file, install a new immich instance and copy the data over manually to the new install, deleting the old install file after a week or so

I’ve had the least buggy experience that way

Immich updating is a dogwater experience

I know it may difficult to believe, but humanity existed before the internet era. If it doesnt actually serve the people and is instead being egregiously leveraged against them, it needs to be flushed down with the rest of the waste

Doctors can still accommodate clients without internet communications

Banks can still give out and accept your money, and you are perfectly capable of writing down those transactions in a ledger with red and black ink

Landlords or mortgage holders do too, even if you use paper cheques. You… Can… write a cheque… right?

Employers have been whining for at least since I started working about people being on the internet on their phones (2010’s), they’d consider you ditching it a win

Friends and family? Oh man you may or may not believe it, but you may actually have to meet up irl to maintain those relationships. Maybe even every weekend.

How to avoid it when implemented? TOR, self hosted Docker programs like TeamSpeak6, Fluxer or anything similar. There’s a lot of options there though you have to have the slightest interest to fix then

It can go as far as meshtastic nodes and HomeAssistant using LORA communications these days. There is a guy in Ukraine doing just that to use HA at work to trigger smart home systems when cellular is down

reddit.com/…/i_control_my_home_assistant_over_lor…

People use this garbage because its convenient and easily accessible is all, it takes maybe a weekend of research to bypass all formal methods of communication on 10 year old hardware sitting in peoples closets if someone is even slightly aspiring to, and it only takes one person capable of doing so per family or even maybe town if this goes far enough past people’s willingness to tolerate it