Yeah i understand what you are saying and that is why everyone's individual needs come into play.

I don't know what country you are in and that can obviously affect things, my banks 2FA is an SMS. I have options in terms of the other things you mentioned, where as you may not have.

For people looking to change and are worried about banks bullshit here is a link to a list of currently supported bank apps.

"Making day to day life functionally impossible" is a bit drastic. I think that depends on each individual person, their needs both in terms of banking and privacy.

My banking app doesn't work on Graphene but I also couldn't care less. I can just as easily log in to my account via my browser on my phone if I need to do something and it isn't exactly hard, it takes all of 30 seconds more than using an app.

I realise in some other countries you don't have that option but were I in the same situation for me that would be enough to change banks, I don't want to be forced to use an app for anything.

Everyone has different lengths they are willing to go to to protect their privacy and I'm willing to make my life slightly harder where as others may not but I think saying it makes life functionally impossible is a bit of an overstatement and it needs to be judged based on individual needs.

There is a list of what banking apps work and what don't.I'll post it in a top level comment for visibility.

No worries, I hope you find something you enjoy.

I would say that I personally can't stand politics in the real world or in stories so I am with you on that and I don't believe any of the cosmere stuff focuses on politics at all. Dune is something politic heavy and whilst I made it through it eventually it took me four or five tries and I probably wouldn't return.

I highly recommend trying out at least the first mistborn book to see if you like it if you get to a point where you are in need of something else to read after you've worked your way through some other suggestions.

Happy reading :)

If you like world building then check out Brandon Sanderson and his cosmere related books. They all play out within the same cosmere and all build upon that same world with different stories. I started with Mistborn and think that is still my favourite but it is a hard decision as there is a lot of good books / series.

You could also try Stephen Kings - The Dark Tower and then go down the rabbit hole of a plethora of other books that all happen within the same world and have various different connections to The Dark Tower books and midworld.

N.K Jemison - The Broken Earth trilogy was pretty decent in terms of building the world it was set in and I think is pretty highly regarded for that element.

If you want a bit of space operas then I think Simon R Greens - Deathstalker books are really great and build a whole quirky universe for itself.

Maybe check a few of those out :)

35 isn't too late to sort your body out, it is going to be hard getting started and you won't build muscle as quickly as you might in your 20's but you can still get swole.

Dude at my gym is in his 60's and puts most of the kids there to shame. You've just gotta commit and put in the work :)

Haha yeh that is fair enough, I am however now going to go out of my way just to find books and series with Death in the title purely to recommend on each of these weekly threads ;)

I'm afraid I don't, as much as I'd like to be able to give you a good recommendation due to my hatred of amazon, I am a pirate through and through. If you want to go down that route then I can however recommend myanonamouse as the best place for everything eBook and audiobook related.

I too ran a unihertz titan for a few years, massive beast of a thing but I love a keyboard. Before that I had the blackberry keytwo which was my favourite phone of all time.

I backed the planet computers astroslide before they took everyone's money and ran after delivering a fraction of the units promised and what was delivered was woefully out of date due to their ineptitude.

I still dream of a blackberry key three, but alas my dreams will never be fulfilled and I'm trapped on a shitty touch screen :'(

Was on .world. Main points were to minimise centralisation of communities on .world and to maximise the number of people who can see the community based on some defederation and dislike of .world.

Thanks Blaze for supplying a link :)

I enjoyed Frugal Wizard so I know I'll enjoy it, like the rest of his work, I'm just waiting for the mood to catch me I guess for that one.

And I didn't realise until I wrote out that comment and thought to myself "hmmm seems to be a theme running here at the moment" xD I guess I like bleak sounding literature?

Have you read Simon R Greens Deathstalker? That is a glorious space opera that is another of my favourites and, surprise surprise, more death in the title xD

I'm back on Deathlands for a few books, still enjoying but have a few things ready to start next but haven't decided what to try yet.

I have Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, Deathless saga or All Dead. The latter two are both the beginnings of series that I just want to try out without knowing anything about them, see if either stick.

I love most of Kings books but Kujo is one I just didn't really get into / enjoy that much for what ever reason. The Dark Half and The Institute are great though!