Nice list of things that no-one who can vote in a US presidential election cares about.
Nice list of things that no-one who can vote in a US presidential election cares about.
Voter registration is public information and sufficient for cold callers.
If you live independently you will inevitably have to make privacy sacrifices for the sake of expediency. Having a bank account is probably going to be one of them. There are many essential services that you use but probably do not think of as an eighteen year old that may share information when you provide for yourself such as your phone carrier, ISP, utilities such as power, water, gas etc, insurance, health services, education or certification providers, employment or recruitment agencies, the list just goes on and you will have to thoroughly evaluate every company you interact with and in many cases there will simply be no realistic privacy respecting option.
Keep fighting to protect your privacy but don’t put an impossible burden on yourself to be perfect. You will make mistakes, you will make compromises, you will probably get spam. Welcome to late stage capitalism.
They don’t want pirates removing the slot machine monetization from their game for children.
Android is built on linux yet it is increasingly locked down and many phones are extremely difficult to get root access on.
So Valve could have followed the phone ecosystem path and pushed as much of the feature set as proprietary code as possible (binary blob drivers, proton proprietary instead of bsd), replaced pacman with a valve controlled package manager & repos, setup selinux to give users no power to do anything and made the deck only able to secure boot steamOS signed by Valve. Technical users may be able to jail break such a device but the majority would not be inclined to.
Valve’s wisdom here is in realizing that the majority are going to buy their games anyway but if you don’t lock the device down then most of the technical users will also buy most of their games whereas if you have to go out of your way to jail break a device to install something fun then that device basically becomes a piracy only device from that point on.
Linus Torvalds. He’s making a list.
“a true caliphate has never been tried”
the existence of this type of guy implies the existence of his natural rival; the support actual-existing-caliphates guy.
Here is a really interesting video on lightbulbs which goes into how the light bulb cartel standard was more of a min-maxing of lifespan vs energy cost vs brightness than it was planned obsolescence.
I mean you could look at the architecture but all you really needed is a level
I unfortunately can’t speak to this directly as I don’t have direct knowledge of ad blockers.
Yeah me too
You only need the app to do ear shape analysis
Does this require the app for operation or can you temporarily install the app for config and then use the feature without the app?
I think the idealization of this kind of spartan living space is basically the same as the cryptobro idealization of unregulated currency.
Over time exposure to reality will result in making compromise after compromise to solve each problem that arises until you have reinvented from first principles the very same standards that everyone else in society already arrived at.
It’s less the logical end point and more the desired end goal to which they’ve been actively working towards for decades rationalizing each step as a necessary compromise.
I just tossed a coin out the window at the nearest child and told them to fetch me the plumpest turkey in the butcher’s window.
You could use Insular to quarantine your untrusted apps into their own profile (different permissions, file directory etc) and then transfer the individual photos to the “work” profile to access them with whatsapp.
It’s a proprietary app operated by capitalists.
Youtube is older and more advanced in it’s state of enshitiffication than tiktok but don’t deceive yourself into thinking Tiktok will not take the same path.
It’s token DRM for publisher box checking. It shouldn’t need to there but I appreciate that they almost make a point of doing the bare minimum.
Not all unencrypted apps are equivalent. Not wanting to use something owned by meta under any circumstances is completely reasonable.
From there, rice, in the 90s-00s, referred to the Race Inspired Cosmetic Enhancement: typically bolted onto Honda and Toyota, it moved from that to any cosmetic car customization 10s.
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Any acronym other than the name of an organization can be presumed a retronym until proven otherwise
oh no I have been owned, congrats you have restored the british empire to it’s former place as world super power