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I don’t think they’re making a moral argument, but pointing out the reality of the situation as it stands.

This is a problem that can only be fixed through legislation and aggressive enforcement backed by large punitive actions.

Until that happens, it’s better to acknowledge and understand the reality of the situation, than to believe that a morally righteous condemnation will somehow unmake that reality.

It sucks. I agree with your philosophical stance, except for the payment for personal data, as I’d prefer a complete opt-out. However, none of that changes where we’re at right now.

I got as far as the second paragraph, which consists of the following quote from a Google VP:

“I’m not going to talk about Recall, but I think the reason that some people feel it’s creepy is when it doesn’t feel useful, and it doesn’t feel like something they initiated or that they get a clear benefit from it”

That’s somehow worse than I imagined. I can at least understand being intentionally sinister, or overtly anti-privacy, but that level of delusion is somehow actually more terrifying.

lol.

Just search for Purism customer support experiences.

I’m honestly amazed there hasn’t been a fraud, or some other consumer protection type criminal investigation.

All that baggage, and their hardware is also laughably outdated and overpriced.

Which is unfortunate, because the concept is amazing and clearly there’s a sizable market for it.

Here is an example of just ONE flavor of Purism customer experiences:

Announce current gen hardware and current pricing.

Customer pays

Customer receives hardware 5 years later, after being told approx. 362 times that cancellation refunds are down, or unable to be processed.

Customer tries to immediately return the 5 year old laptop that was just delivered and is told “No Returns”

There are other variations that you can read about on various forums.

There’s a lot more to sovereign monetary policy than currency exchange rates, such as the capital controls being exercised here

Look, the worst that could happen is that he murders you, but honestly, he probably won’t.

It’s more likey he’ll probably just wear you down emotionally until you support him financially, while he stays at home and takes out credit cards under your name.

On the plus side, I bet he’ll fuck like a racehorse on the rare days when he isn’t too dipped, or shit faced.

Edit: Just noticed you added that he’s a veteran with PTSD, and yes, that changes my answer: he will probably murder you.

Not just because he’s a veteran with PTSD, but because he’s clearly a massively damaged and dangerous person AND has war trauma.

Most likely outcome: strangulation.

No, it’s a way to say that Mint has become bloated and not a great experience.

I just switched to Fedora from Mint, and was impressed.

I recently switched my main Linux laptop to Fedora and I have to say, it’s probably the most stable and clean distro I’ve ever used.

Exactly. There’s no way that could ever go tits up.

You might want to start with a lease, with the option to buy out, or trade-in, after the original terms are up.

That… actually sounds pretty plausible.

VPNs don’t prevent tracking, especially when you’re logging into services.

They can help obfuscate your identity to varying degrees, but honestly this is a pretty odd decision. I’m guessing it has more to do with malicious activity, or some other type of activities that Reddit is trying to curtail, and they feel blocking VPN IP ranges will help them.

The topic in question here is not about government abuse of data, it’s corporate abuses, but okay, let’s set that aside.

You’ve said that it’s safer to roll your own VPN using a VPS service precisely because you can’t trust any VPN providers, or auditing organizations.

But you’re now saying that you can trust a hosting provider based solely on which jurisdiction they reside in.

You’re just arbitrarily picking which companies to trust with your connection traffic, but with added complexity, and significantly reduced egress locations for your traffic, which itself dramatically impacts any privacy benefits you were looking to achieve.

…so, trust the hosting provider to not log…and that you won’t screw up any config or update, and make sure to use anonymous payments, and…and…etc.

Absolutely. Everyone here is acting like PDF and JPEG exploits on Android don’t exist.

I agree that OP shouldn’t pay for one, and that most AV apps are, at best, garbage, but there are also reasons to have one, and reasonable ones to install - Hypatia being one of them.

That doesn’t necessarily mean your IP isn’t being exposed to YT.

If that is something you’re concerned about, you should read the documentation of whichever pipe/front ends and services you use.

Depends. Are either of those companies bootstrapping a for-profit startup and trying to dupe people into contributing free labor prior to their inevitable rug pull/switcheroo?

Depends if this is already baked into the firmware the device shipped with and is just being pushed into user space with a software update, or if the update is also pushing out the firmware to add it.

If it’s former, then yeah, probably SOL.

But if it’s the latter, it might be possible to get avoid and even get Android 15 ROMS that strip out those parts.

The USAF has significantly more planes and pilots then the USN.

However, the USN is technically the second largest air force currently operating in the world, behind the USAF.

After unceremoniously shitting all over the Netflix Marvel shows, Disney+ is doing an about-face and literally rebooting some of them WITH the original creators i.e. Punisher Season 3, it’s happening.

Well, shit.That’s on me for not googling the story.

Luckily for me, the AFP is basically a junior FBI in regards to their aspirational goals of running a police state on behalf of the Aussie elite and Liberal party donor class.

NSW anti-terror police aren’t far behind either, even if their brand of shitfuckery is a bit petty relative to the AFP, or FBI.