This post is a millennial trap, so I'd think most people here?
From the thread it seems it's only a problem during setup. If you stick it out then after setup it should be fine.
RCS might be better than SMS but it seems to only be supported by the Google Messages app so I do without. You did ask about other things, I don't recall giving anything up but then there are these two things you mentioned that I never would have thought of so maybe there are more.
I hope I can get my Dexcom working on gos.
It's apparently a struggle, but see this thread. I can't work out how to link a specific reply, but there is one on 11 August 2025 by whoiswes and then some info in the replies following it, that recommend something called xDrip. They say they recommend it over the Dexcom app and runs flawlessly once set up, but it seems there's a bit of app crashing that happens while setting it up.
Oh I was already degoogling long before I moved to GrapheneOS. I've never used RCS and gave up wallet years before moving to GrapheneOS. I only use SMS with specific people so not having RCS has never been an issue for me - but apparently it works on GrapheneOS if you don't mind the whole google thing.
And apparently it's only NFC payments that don't work on GrapheneOS, you can use other wallet features according to the people in this thread.
I never stopped carrying a card anyway so NFC payments aren't something I miss.
The problem is that a website is generally not served from one domain.
Put a Facebook like button on your website, it's loaded directly from Facebook servers. Now they can put a cookie on your computer with an identifier.
Now every site you visit with a Facebook like button, they know it was you. They can watch you as you move around the web.
Google does this at a larger scale. Every site with Google ads on it. Every site using Google analytics. Every site that embeds a Google map. They can stick a cookie in and know you were there.
Me as an instance admin sitting here reading about how Lemmy doesn't have trolls and Russian bots, while I'm in a chat with other instance admins and mods where we need to actively coordinate to fight the trolls and Russian bots 😐
Haha I remember the days of downloading random EXEs off the internet and running them to see what they do (also the days of CD-rom drives).
My auntie somehow managed to get a virus that played Für Elise through the motherboard speaker and never stopped so long as the thing was on. I don't think they ever solved it, in the end they just got a new PC.
Hey ChatGPT, how can I ...
"Locking as this is a duplicate of [unrelated question]"
Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users
Uh oh, some sort of court ruling?
film studios say
Oh right, nothing to see here.
So you're telling me I get free accommodation, free food, and it's protected by a T-rex?
Be the change you want to see!

He talks a bit about it on this instagram video uploaded to reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/trektalk/comments/1quvssy/starfleet_academy_whats_up_with_the_voice_of/
TL;DR it's the voice he puts on for the role but might also be adjusted to some extent in post.