Consoles: Hives of vendor lock-in and proprietary nonsense
Smartphones: Hives of vendor lock-in, proprietary nonsense and a powerful tool for social engineers
Laptops: Strong tendency toward proprietary design, eh they’re not that terrible, I guess…
All in all, making these things harder to obtain would be a net positive for society.
When enough individuals ignore a law, it becomes soft nullified. For example, everyone doing ~30 over the speed limit. Even the cops where I’m from will tailgate you if you’re not going fast enough.
I salute non-VPN’d torrenters. Thank you for your service.
or even seem safe to me.
TIL: Trump voters are violent wife beaters
Lemmy, always there to educate me
Many experts in the past have noted that most such infected devices can’t survive a reboot because the malware can’t write to their storage. That means periodically rebooting can disinfect the device, although there’s likely nothing stopping reinfection at a later point.
Relevant line for my lazy chadbros who know that reading articles is for sissies.
People apparently use installment plans for phone purchases these days, along with a downstream used market, so it’s actually a really apt analogy.
Wake me up when they start producing chips without Management Engine
The schoolyard bullies are fighting each other again.
Horses were domesticated some 6000 years ago. I feel so old!
FWIW you’re talking to someone who doesn’t even have a credit score. You might see such things as a self-handicap, but I consider it an accomplishment that I’m very proud of.
This is because conservatives are technologically impaired.
To be fair, I don’t go around in public telling everyone “I don’t have a cell phone btw”. So I suppose we are easy to miss.
The approach once worked, but that was back before browsers began including the likes of things like advertiser IDs and other extremely high entropy attributes that no average person would ever think to disable. Contemporary hide-in-the-crowd strategies are mostly curated within efforts like Tor browser where everyone is encouraged to use the exact same configuration. But then it’s still a numbers problem. If only two attendees decide to hide their faces with party masks to a soiree of 100 people, one (large scale observer) only need check the guest list and use process of elimination to determine the identities of the 2% “hidden” attendees.
Somebody can, and probably will, come along and refute this assessment. I am not entirely convinced myself that it is a losing strategy yet. I’m open to hear opposing takes.
Privacy Badger: IIRC Privacy Badger operates by logging third party domains connections on a per-site bases, and only begins to actively block connections once a domain seen across multiple visits fits the profile of a likely tracker.
Nvrmnd, they’ve changed how PB works and it is now closer to a list-based tracker blocker (enumerate badness):
So they’ve since corrected one of the core issues with PB. Still it is weak. To see why, please glance through The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security.
uBlock Origin in advanced mode, with default-deny rules (only allow assets by exception) is going to be much stronger at blocking crap.
Personally, I use uMatrix with pretty much all asset classes blocked by default. I never see popups. I never see banners begging “please allow our cookies, pleeeeaaase!”.
Wow that’s a lot of effort compared to just blocking CSS and javascript with something like uMatrix.
You and I must live in two different societies then. I work with at least two other individuals who also don’t have a cell phone (not just smart phone, but any cellular device), one of whom is also a millennial. My SIP number has never had any issues with online service auth.
If I were stuck in that position, then I would not hesitate to choose the postage method. That being an option does not comport with the assertion “if a person didn’t have a smart phone they literally can’t use it”.
I’m surprised to find somebody with some sense around here.
I have never used a block or mute feature on any site or any service in all my life. It is wild to me that people today actually use those features, let alone to constrict the ideas that they allow themselves to be exposed to.
I conducted a fun little experiment over at /c/[email protected] in which I posited the question: “If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme conservative?”. I then waited twenty hours before posting “If it were possible, how would you deprogram an extreme progressive?”. The difference in reception between the questions exposed the intense lib-left bias that is pervasive on Lemmy, a byproduct of people constantly walling themselves into self-made echochambers.
Laughs in no phone
The smart ones will be unaffected as nouveau, as distributed through package managers, remains unaffected.
And the really smart ones don’t even have nvidia hardware to begin with.
wtf is “GeForce NOW”?
Ah, cloud gaming
Well of course they’re going to rake suckers over the coals. Anyone with an ounce of foresight knew years ago that game streaming was going to be toll roaded to hell and back.