I watched both versions of Ghosts, and found them to be quite similar honestly. The US version can be a little more slapstick and a little more goofy, but that's about it.
> I find American humour so hard to relate to but I guess it's just a culture thing
These kind of comments always puzzle me. Hollywood makes stuff for the entire world, not just for a domestic audience.
Shows like Friends, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, pretty much any big sitcom you can name is in syndication in most countries around the world, because of how relatable it is.
It's often not sophisticated, and can be quite shallow (See Two and a half men or Big Bang theory), but it being hard to relate to is unlikely to be an issue.
> Go a step further and switch to Mint, T-mobile's pay-as-you-go subsidiary. I'm paying $180/year for a single line. I've been on mint for ~3 years now.
> On Mint your traffic is routed with lower priority than T-Mobile's main customers.
Much better to just use T-Mobile connect. Same pricing without the lower priority. I pay $15/month for my line which works out the same to $180/year.
Honestly everyone should just use T-Mobile Connect. They make it very hard to find on their site, but it's their true prepaid service, cheapest plan is 5GB of data and unlimited calls/texts, and it won't a lesser priority like MVNOs are.
The fact that people pay over $100/month for a phone bill is truly a uniquely mind-boggling American thing.
Depending on the MVNO you can get first-class priority data (my plan has it), but also this stuff has never made a difference in my experience. When I was on 'lower priority' data the differences in speed weren't noticeable if I had service at all, and in the cases where I was at some event where there was a lot of devices contending for access to the tower, nobody was getting service.
If you don't have the key, how? I browsed XDA forums a lot in the past to try and ulock and old phone, and there didn't seem to be any way. All of the guides ended up being nonsense.
Someone above said you need the NCK code which is generated from a secret only the carrier has - how does having root get around this?
The lock is basically implemented as an "is the SIM's carrier on a whitelist" check, which can obviously be patched out or modified arbitrarily once you have full access to the firmware which root does. It's important to remember that the lock is entirely on the phone's side, to prevent it from connecting to any other carrier than the one it's locked to. A carrier can implement an "official" unlocking method essentially as an app that runs on the phone to validate the unlock code, but that is no obstacle to root.
If you jailbreak an iPhone, the lock is also easily removable in the same manner.
If we're talking NCKs it means the modem is locked, so you need a modem/baseband-level exploit. Root helps you talk to said modem but doesn't directly allow you to modify its firmware without some other exploit.
Can you recommend any good guides to read more about this? I was trying to unlock a Boost phone a few years ago, which was perfectly good and compact but unusable outside of Boost. I no longer have the need but still have the curiosity.
> I personally know several feminists who have been censored and even banned from major social media platforms for speaking up on women's rights. Their words were incorrectly flagged as "hate" and removed.
I mean, were they saying stuff against transwomen? If so, then it may not have been incorrectly flagged as hate.
Are you sure? Most notices provide a list of partners. What needs to be provided is a list of who gets to see which data for which purpose.
Most lists I have ever seen are lists that are not informing me of that, especially the lengthy ones. The only ones that comply are very short lists by privacy conscious website owners.
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