WhatsApp is owned by Meta, so you should expect that they will do this soon enough if they aren’t doing it already.

I agree with the first part of what you said, but I disagree with your last sentence.

I have been using Linux on my desktop PCs and laptops since 2017 and it’s been working great for me, even playing games. Honestly, I probably play more games on Linux than I did back when I was on Windows lol

They don’t care about the tech, they care about the data.

Implying that the Republicans now “stand for the little guys” is dumb but also arguably true

How is it true exactly? Republicans do not care about the little guys in any way lol

How do you turn on canvas randomisation in Firefox? I can’t seem to find anything about it.

I got 17.5 on my Desktop Firefox lol

I use DDG but I’m always open to alternatives.

Yeah, Google Cache does seem like it has been gone for years. I can’t even recall the last time I was able to use it.

I wouldn’t work at those companies, but I wouldn’t say the developers who work there are quite as evil as the directors at those companies. It’s true they were just doing their job, like they were just following orders, but people do need to work at the end of the day. Whether they work there for prestige, or for the pay, and sure you could argue nobody needs that pay, we have already seen people who stick their necks out at those companies get their heads chopped off. Not everyone who works there is going to be fine with (or worse, happy with) how evil the companies are, but also not everyone there is going to stick their neck out either. In summary, I don’t think it’s fair to blame the developers who work there. I once worked at a mid-sized advertising company, they hid that they were an advertising company and at that point it was too late.

Besides, not everyone has enough experience that they can quit their job at the drop of a hat, especially in this pro-business layoff-heavy economy.

Canada will be implementing very similar to this Poilievre gets elected.

I’m on 128 on my phone and it was on for me, I definitely didn’t turn those on myself. wtf.

It was on for me too, wtf…

Sexually frustrated people are more eager to endorse violence against marginalized groups.

Aren’t they more likely to endorse violence against the politicians enacting these dumb laws in the first place?

Canada will likely be following suit when Poilievre takes over.

One of them would have to be Life is Strange 1, it’s a pretty good port and honestly it’s one of my fav games of all time.

Yeah but that’s not new, that has existed for years even in Merlin firmware. People were saying that this affects Merlin but I’m not seeing any indication of it yet.

Yes I know ASUS is shitty and evil, and it sucks that those features are gated behind abandoning your privacy, but I was saying that part isn’t new, and I don’t think this new stuff affects Merlin yet.

We’ll see how it all plays out, though.

Merlin

That thread isn’t about Merlin firmware?

The symptoms were the internal display went black after an automatic firmware update (you can’t disable firmware updates, they happen automatically) and never came on again, and then external display also went black after working only once. The device would power on, you would hear the fans running, but there was no display and no startup chime.

Mine died 9 months out of warranty, last week they told me over the phone that apparently the firmware got corrupted and they have to reprogram it, and it will cost $120 USD + tax + shipping (+ import fees of course). I haven’t heard anything else yet. I sent it off for RMA back on May 7, so it’s been a little while lol

Brb, visiting Japan.

It’ll be interesting to see how the technology advances in even 2 or 3 years, even with just an 8GB card, thanks to optimizations etc.

A privacy minded person probably wouldn’t use these tools to begin with tbh, they would likely run their own LLM instead.

I mean people love the classics for a reason, privacy is just an added bonus of having an awesome classic car.

They have to make it sound like it’s private and secure, but it really isn’t. It’s sad how dystopian our future is becoming.

“have full network access” BIG YIKES

You really think they will add a full ActivityPub implementation? I highly doubt it.

Free speech = you must do what we say.

I’m not sure how much it matters that people are taking notice. If all cars are doing it, what can we do? It’s not like people can’t buy cars anymore and it’s not like individual people can pay off politicians to make it illegal like large corporations can to make it legal.

I didn’t even know Instagram had group chats lol

Yeah, I’m aware it’s dedicated and not shared, and there’s billing info etc. It’s just so that websites, particularly forums etc cannot have my home IP just like that. It’s an additional layer of protection.

Selfhosted DigitalOcean VPS with SOCKS 5 SSH tunnelling for masking my home IP when web browsing and OVH VPS with OpenVPN server for masking my home IP for my local seedbox server. I don’t really need commercial VPNs since I only really need basic functionality to mask my IP and I don’t really need a shared service to do that.

YMMV, of course.

I’ve always liked Google Meet better anyway. Hopefully Google don’t decide to scrap it too, because while it seems like it is going to stick around, they do really like scrapping projects…

edit: Nevermind, I forgot people aren’t allowed to have preferences. I understand Google is evil, and their web extensions is literally going to kill the Internet, but you can’t tell me that millions of people aren’t using Gmail.