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  • Oh nooooo who could have seen this coming... anyway continues using Lemmy

  • Everything I want to play runs on Linux and the couple that don't are because of EAC, which I can't be bothered with. I've completely cut Windows out of my life.

  • Tbh for me the third party client thing was just the cherry on top of the constant barrage of corpo fuckery in general, plus the knowledge of reddit's IPO and inevitable decline with the way things were headed for a while.

    I'm already balls deep in FOSS and started dipping my toes into the fediverse as a whole, so switching off Reddit for me didn't hurt in the slightest. It felt good. All spez did was give me the reason I was looking for to finally pull the trigger.

  • rule

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  • I did that as a beginner a few times but now I'm able to resolve everything I need to with the good old terminal.

  • That's still good practice but first party cookies aren't exactly trustworthy either. IMO, best to whitelist what you trust and use, permablock what you don't, and auto-wipe the rest.

  • The Eye of Sauron

  • That's not it. It's E2EE but Meta gathers all the metadata from Whatsapp including who you contact, when, where, how large the messages are, what times you're online and for how long, phone numbers, names etc. That's plenty of info to create a profile on users and their connections with each other, as is Facebook's MO.

  • No more please can we just get normal human beings as presidential candidates and not whatever the fuck this has been?

  • They really shouldn't. This is all political theater.

  • This starts with some ambiguous "protecting the children" from porn argument to eventually requiring everyone to be "verified" with a digital ID before they can set foot on a highly controlled internet (or worse). We're already seeing increasing glimpses of this and it's in the government's and big tech's interest.

    I'm so tired of the constant barrage of shit from all directions. This isn't the beautiful future of humanity I imagined as a kid. No one will look out for us except for us, the actual people that these out of touch rich and powerful high society clowns try to control and keep occupied with stupid culture wars amongst each other, or placate with bread and circus. Enough already ffs.

  • Comparing that thing to her is an insult to her polygons

  • Pretty much. Welcome to the fucking future I guess. There's no flying cars and green cities and happiness or bloody universal healthcare, instead we have corpos trying to turn us into their consumer slaves and governments turning authoritarian. Just do what you're told and buy more. Don't ask questions don't think just browse TikTok, improve your social credit score, and imprint more ads into your psyche until WW3.

    We're walking into hell with our eyes wide open fuck me it hurts.

  • They always knew. When the time comes they'll force everything back with even more bloatware and even less freedom to choose because that's the corpo way. This is just another long-term power grab.