I use a physical sim. I’m not sure it even supports eSIM, but I’d be hesitant to ditch the physical sim for precisely the reasons you mentioned. I’ve swapped sims around between phones and even borrowed them from people when I was in a new area, something that’s much harder with eSIMs.
It’s better because Bing may still have selling ads as a priority when building the indexer. If you’re not the one paying, you’re the product.
Because last time I checked they just used Bing anwyay, while Kagi runs their own indexer.
Google’s becoming pretty terrible anyway, it only seems to return pages that are selling things. I’ve switched to Kagi at this point and it seems to work better, it’s subscription only, but you know you’re the one paying for it and that means that you’re the end customer.
I donate to all the services I use. Including my Mastodon instance, Wikipedia, Habitica, etc…
EDIT: And I mean monthly. Except for Wikipedia where it’s just yearly.
If I were running a Unity project, I’d be tempted to just jump to Unreal. No matter what promises Unity makes you don’t have any actual guarantee that they’ll keep them while Unreal has the “non-retroactive” clause directly in their contract. However painful the switch is, you’ll only have to do it once.
That was my first thought too. Wasn’t there like a checklist for “Why this spam detection scheme will fail” that was floating around since the late 1990s?
Do we really want more of their cash grabs on Steam? Their old stuff was great, but now the ship has sailed and their newest stuff just isn’t that good anymore. Especially after the latest Diablo 4 patch.
But why does it work like that? You could just as easily make the phone silently pick up and silently hang up.
This theory makes a lot of sense if you consider that Russia’s biggest problem is that losing the war might make their country cease to exist completely. But even so, their problems are training, cultural and logistics based, no amount of biological weapons are going to fix their problems; though they probably wouldn’t admit that even to themselves.
I already donate to my Mastodon instance, if my instance needs or wants money for any reason, they should set up a donation button and I’ll subscribe. Which will give them a lot more money than they would ever make from showing me ads. We should normalize removing all ads from the internet, forever.