This is how I feel with just my spouse. Spotify absorbs so much ADD energy and immediate new music whiplash that I can’t help but be OK with it.

The alternative is to be up at 4:00am on Oct 13 ripping T-Swizzle MP3s from YT.

It’s really more like the Android apocalypse is looming. We have 11 months and some change before android phones get locked down like Apple.

Well, the cat just left something in the litter box, so you get first dibs on cleaning that.

Then, uh, tea? You want tea? Or whiskey? Look, your options are: tea, whiskey, water, wine, and coffee. Pick up to 4. Same cup, that’s cool, you do you.

Then I’ll bake a tiny cake and we can watch 90’s music videos and play Nintendo until our eyes bleed.

They also stopped support that allowed for easier development of custom ROMs a couple weeks back. So it’s not good news for custom ROMs. Either someone needs to form Android for good, or Linux phones are our next best bet.

Back in 2019 when the leadership changed, they moved to be 100% about advertising, which is why Google started going browser fingerprint tracking. Invasive is the name of the game. Within 6 months of that, they’re also locking down their entire ecosystem like Apples does, specifically to squeeze more data out for advertising. This isn’t an action taken in a vacuum.

Sorry, I mean just for the UK, US, and apparently China also.

Fortunately, the EU isn’t going down the same path, and has Estonia, Finland, Denmark and the Netherlands as guides. And to just do this in the right order and do step 1: sensible digital ID system.

At some point they get large enough that the whims of users cease to affect their decision-making. If Google, Meta, and MS tomorrow rolled out a social credit system that made the Chinese version look generous, 95+% of their users would not change a THING to avoid it. Maybe 98% of their users.

Users are the commodity to be traded. They have what they see as a business model that’s too big to fail. And the users agree!

It bothers me so much that a ZKP system is entirely possible, and no one will just do the first step of setting that up.

I grew up in a place that looks like Greece, but the rocks are red.

Same thing - amazing mesas and red rock plateaus and craggy mountains? See it every day. Meh. Crystal blue seas? I can’t stop starting and being amazed that something that color is real.

Though, I have noticed that very flat and forested places give me a sense of claustrophobia. When you’re used to being able to see 20-50 miles all the time, not being able to see anything more than 200 feet away is strange. It makes the world seem so small and trite.

I did my part!

I think we should be able to have a national class action against DOGE. 100% serious, all US citizens for sure, and anyone else with data in the Social Security database, should sue the individuals responsible for this.

Then we take the money and start a company that contracts out to the government to create a national digital ID system that is the most secure in the world, and allows for amazing anonymity.

If someone tells them to, they might try until a few business interests remind them that these are also fundamental components of business networks. Once money tells them to stop it, they will.

VPN companies should just hire a lobbyist for a week and this will all go away.

Exactly this. There’s maybe 8 politicians in the whole world that understand what a VPN is. They’re told by a lobbyist and donor that it’s a thing that is bad, now they’re out to figure out how to make it go away.

I’ve been tired of it since 2016.

The worst part is whenever you see some subjective word use like this, and then you dig into the actual source event or material, 99% of the time, it’s absolutely nothing. Oh, did T “melt down” by tweeting in all caps? Ah yes, so rare, an occurrence. And not just articles about him, but usually articles about his reaction as being something crazy or whatever suffer from this kind of hyperbole.

Also in the same category are articles with “will” or “can” or some other version of “maybe maybe maybe” or “likely to” in the headline. 99% of the time, no it won’t. It’s just a workaround for Betteridge’s law of headlines (any headline with a question mark can be answered “no”) that any article that suggests something might happens can be answered with “nah, probably not.”

PLEASE check out any privacy community on Lemmy, PrivacyGuides.org, or ugh…even /r/Privacy

Saying “I have nothing to hide” does nothing but empower the surveillance state. You are living in a surveillance state and advertising tracking data is how you are tracked.

privacy@lemmy.world privacy@lemmy.ml privacy@lemmy.ca privacy@lemmy.ca

I would bet it will turn the corner around 2042

Microsoft might agree with this.

Hard agree with this. Does Reddit even have lawyers, or are they just using ChatGPT? Google, Meta, and Tik Tok already paid PII misuse fines for less than this. everything listed is part of the GDPR extended PII list.

Unrelated question: How do I short reddit stock?

Same how the 14th Amendment to the Constitution is basically invalidated as long as some states hold off on challenging his EO undoing it.

He’ll do some “Elections will happen, but only in states that are nice to me and I expect to win” EO and will basically take CA and IL out of the results, and their results won’t be certified by Congress. Because right now it’s a race to rig 2026 to save donor campaign money.

OK, well what I’m trying to tell you is that unless you have some exotic hardware, Mint has the reputation of working right out of the box. Not great for gaming, so if that’s a deal breaker, then that’s it.