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Most people will never question Google or Meta’s data harvesting while using their apps, but I’m sure you know this already.
The issue with offering me money directly for personal information is that I’d immediately nope away because that sounds like a scam or something malicious.
“Personal data” is something very abstract and most people have little to no idea what it means to give it away. Nowadays it’s getting harder and harder to limit what’s being shared so even those that have a vague understanding of what it means may not care too much.
I don’t have social media accounts and I’ve been using VPNs nonstop for the last 10 years. Degoogled, Firefox, uBlock Origin, PiHole, etc. I got used to this, but it’s a balancing act. I don’t self host. I’m forced to use Windows at work. Credit card for groceries and stuff.
It’s incredibly weird to think how easy it is to create a behavior profile of the average joe. It’s unsettling to imagine companies like Meta and Google have decade’s worth of data on people.
As you said, they shouldn’t share that, but they do. And in places with no way to have that data “erased”, some people will have an unfathomable amount of information about them harvested throughout their whole life.
Even if that data is never used for anything malicious, it’s still disturbing.
Can you imagine how it would be like to see Theia about to hit proto-Earth just above you? Then “pause” the scene and look at it a few hundred kilometres away…
Or just peek inside the clouds of the gas giants…
Or the depths of frozen moon oceans…
Or stars being slingshot’ed near supermassive black holes …
Dang, it almost feels like a curse to know how big and vast the universe is while being confined inside a single body for a few decades…
Honestly I’d love the power of being able to see any point in space and time. To witness the birth and death of stars and look around alien shores. To peek at the absurdity of the diversity of life eons before human history.
I’d probably go mad pretty fast but hey, it’d be pretty neat.
Not enough hymns from God, sadly
Well you did apologize in advance and warn me so that’s on me I guess.
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Fool! I wish for infinite wishes plus one!
Is PonyOS a Linux distribution?
No! PonyOS uses its own kernel, built from scratch.
I both fear and admire this level of dedication
Tetris Effect. The funny thing is I used to hate Tetris with passion, but somehow Tetris Effect has won me over. The music and sound effects are so ASMRish it’s almost trance-inducing…
Hades is far from being evil. He’s a loyal husband and impartial/ fair when dealing with the dead. He even did a solid for Orpheus that one time and all. Too bad homie didn’t follow Hades’ clear instructions.
Zeus on the other hand… Yeah…
My issues start at durability. Plastic screen? Less dust and water resistance? That’s a big no from me before we even get to the software. The technology is impressive, but it still feels like you’re compromising a lot for a gimmick.
Ah, Polytopia!.. It’s been a while. Nice game, great time killer!
To a universe where a version of me that’s close to who I currently am has travelled to all the universes I want to explore and made a top 10 list of universes to visit first
This is the way!
(Though I actually use Fennec because of the cute fox logo)
Yep I prefer Telegram but very few people here use it, so I’m stuck with Whatsapp unfortunately
I’m using the new interface without being in the beta program. I just sideloaded the beta APK and updated my version and it worked.
Just go to apkmirror and be sure to download a (beta) version that works on your device.
Some books and mangas, but mostly the Ghibli movies. Specially because when I watch one of them, I immediately want to go on a full Ghibli marathon.
They’re beautiful.