But even Vista already had some nasty features like IE Smartscreen which to this day is on by default and which sends every website URL you visit to Microsoft. Vista was also the first Windows version to include telemetry throughout the OS. However, in Vista and W7 you could still disable telemetry on normal editions of Windows.
From a privacy standpoint, the last good-by-default OS was XP. The only bigger issues iirc were the Media Player which downloaded album art and DRM licenses and Active Desktop which Microsoft tried to use to advertise to you. Oh, and (edit): Windows license activation was online for the first time and in some cases you had to reactivate after changing hardware.
LTT have videos showcasing their warehouse of old stuff, explaining how they have to expand it and explaining that some things they use for later comparisons. But sure, all the tech they store is not used much.
I used to know someone who had to use water thickeners because of their MS. They couldn't properly swallow fluids anymore, so they consumed e.g. thickened tea on a spoon.
For the love of Cthulhu, no more questions about leggings, please. At least stop posting individual questions about every detail and create the ultimate single post with all the questions.
It's not really a pro-Trump election ad, it's an ad for a Mastodon-based(!) social network, albeit one that's designed to draw people toward pro-Trump content.
It does suck that Google accepts their ads but I wouldn't go so far as to call this election interference.
This seems like such a personal thing though. I suppose they are wearing their leggings for a sport such as running (given the brand they mention). Thus transpiration may be an issue even during cold temperatures outside.
I really don't see the what the fuss is in this thread. The source does make it seem a bit nefarious, but even so, it appears the changes in VLC amount to adding support for a streaming format and adding a channel listing of some sort.
FAST is simply a streaming format. Whether to run ads is an individual decision of each channel.
If I can have a streaming client that can play certain streams versus one that can't, I'll obviously pick the former. (Unless they employ a DRM scheme which does weird things to my devices but it doesn't appear that's part of the discussion here.)
I use adb pm for uninstalling things too. However, iiuc basically what you're doing there is making these apps inaccessible to the user. If you're resetting the device, the removed apps will return immediately because they're always part of the Android image.
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