I’m sorry it took me so long to reply. Your comment was so thorough and well done, I wanted to be able to devote to it the time it deserved, and ADHD brain turned it into one of those things where text on a screen frightens me for some reason XD

This is honestly fantastic information, and I have at least two friends I’m sending it along to as well. Thank you for such a well written response and guidance.

I know Google exists and I’ll go to research on my own, too, but as someone who’s been through the process, can it just be any business, or does it have to be a minimum value company before you can do it? Any general advice?

I mean, of course these people are fucking morons

For a second I thought you meant the black folk you meet in the Netherlands and I was legitimately shocked at the open racism. This is what I get for opening Lemmy as soon as I wake up, before I’ve even gotten out of bed lol

Also, teach me your ways. How do I move to the Netherlands‽

From my somewhat limited research so far, it looks like a lot of FOSS stuff is available on macos, but much less on iPhone given how locked down it is.

… My only vehicle is from 2012, and there is less than a zero percent chance I can get anything else. I’m so fucked, aren’t I?

Yeah, you nailed it. Obvious in hindsight, but until this I had just assumed it was accurate, like, even if everyone wasn’t counted, I guess had I been pressed, I would have assumed there was some formula or something to account for the uncounted or some shit. Kinda wild

Also, village isn’t a word we really use in the US, but now that you say it, I guess that’s kind or exactly what it is. A little village of insane, isolated, meth makin’ hillbillies up in the woods that aren’t accessible by road.

I personally know of ~400 people who are absolutely not counted on any census and I’d be willing to bet not included in any population stats. Whole town up in the mountains. I’d imagine if that can happen in the us, it’s not unlikely to happen elsewhere, so sure… But when they do the whole earth population calculations, I always assumed they just checked in a few extra people to account for, like, uncounted towns and shit