It’s pretty bad. I’m having to back out of the stream every few minutes. Maybe Netflix should stay in their lane.

And for the record, I’m watching on a hardwired Nvidia Shield with a 1 gig fiber connection with nothing else running.

More money

“X’s owner now has the ear of the president-elect, a man who has a long history of helping his friends, and punishing his enemies,” said Max Willens, senior analyst, at Emarketer. “Sending at least a trickle of ad spending toward X may be seen as good for business, albeit in an indirect way.”

There’s the article in a nutshell. Give Elmo money or face the wrath of the Diaper-in-Chief.

Now now, how would private capital profit off of a FOSS social network? Won’t someone think of the investors?

Or, as they were called then, kids. This modern stranger danger and always track your kids is insane, everyone be living like the sky is falling every ten seconds.

Be careful with that, it could make you a target for a visit

Or they could just store the data locally on the user’s device and not transmit it back to a central server, such that the company never even has possession of the data nor any way to retrieve it? Like I get it would require a major rewrite if they weren’t already doing this, but at least they’d be keeping their users safe while also having no way for authorities to gain any data.

Ah gotcha. I just remember that they used to do it for I think the original iteration of e911 and thought they kept it around for other purposes, but I didn’t realize the necessary equipment and financial details involved, so that’s fantastic news. Thank you!

GPS is kind of a tossup since your cellular provider can just as easily triangulate your position with their towers, and there is no escaping that outside of putting your phone in a faraday cage.

Iirc phone calls and alarms still work after a reboot in the lock status, it just disables biometric unlock and keeps the filesystem encrypted

I keep mine on in case of family emergencies, it’s also my alarm clock

I don’t really see that happening, since you’re essentially divorcing wealth from power, and you have a better chance at abolishing capitalism. Ultimately we need a shift of consciousness in this country, but I ain’t holding my breath.

We need more political parties, especially ones that aren’t political extensions of the wealthy elite.

It seems like it’s already beginning. For one, Firefox is getting blocked more and more often as being “out of date” (it’s not) while a chromium-based browser is fine. My VPN keeps getting flagged as malicious (PIA). It’s getting really irritating.

Nah they go to the mines

It’s an older meme sir, but it checks out

Couldn’t the blue states then activate their respective National Guard units to prevent this?

“…because gas prices might come down 10 cents”

It’s better than that, they’ve let other countries have their go at it over the last century, and took detailed notes along the way. The benefit they have now is the widespread plethora and availability of networked technology that they absolutely will leverage in their quest for control.

Yeah I’m going to bed now, hate to say it but it’s over. 4 more years of that fucking dipshit and his shenanigans.