Glad i could help
Read it and weep.
"In addition to the reduction in absolute value of illicit activity, our estimate for the share of all crypto transaction volume associated with illicit activity also fell, to 0.34% from 0.42% in 2022."
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2024-crypto-crime-report-introduction/
There is the Get Your First XMR Matrix room or they could be useful and sell toilet paper on XMRBazaar.
Monerochan by AilliA
You know Haveno-reto has been running since LocalMonero shut down and many early bugs have been squashed right? Buying Monero peer-to-peer is still doable and the trades per day is increasing all the time. We are currently doing an average of 7 transactions per day and last month it was 5.7. The month before that it was 4.8.
If I had to choose between those two, I would choose Ubuntu without fail. However, I am currently using Linux Mint Debian Edition and really enjoying Cinnamon and the fact that it is based on Debian and not Ubuntu.
XMRBazaar.com and post things you need.
If you do end up having to wait until you get a new phone, you could disable Google Play Services and the Google Play Store, and that would help quite a bit.
What is your Monero tipping address?
They don't connect to an API because the YouTube API requires the developers to sign YouTube Terms of Service, which they refuse to do for obvious reasons. This is why those programs break because they scrape the web page instead of using the API. So when the web page changes, the apps have to change in order to continue working. I think the reason it's called soft piracy above is because you are using the service without watching their advertising and they don't like that very much. piracy is wider scope than just torrents, but that's what most people think of when they hear the word piracy.
Glad I deleted mine in 2018 and use a password manager (KeepassDX). Only socials I have are Lemmy, Mastodon (rarely used), and Nostr. If it aint FOSS I avoid if at all possible.