Yeah, forcing any tech to use a service is terrible and short sided

Agreed, but things act differently at scale and it's not like there's 10 billion+ hammers being used at the same time, almost all of the time, for years on end

Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It's like any other tool, when it's used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects

You see, it actually did still save you time from finding a local shop that sells it and interacting with your neighbor

Yeah co-ops are amazing, I'm always astounded when I find cities that don't have any

100%, perfect is the enemy of good. But it makes little logical sense to give any of these corporations any money or data

Right? And why not just boycott all pubkically traded companies forever? 40 days doesn't do much

From a privacy perspective, at least in the US, any traffic outside of the country is analyzed differently than traffic only in the US. Not that it really matters much, since US gov likes to track everything, I just found it annoying watching FF connect to so many servers before ever going to a website. Seems sketchy, since harden FF don't do this

Welp, that's enough dystopian reality for me today. I was actually hoping to have these for repairability and easier chip identification, but nope, built for prisons you say...

Fun game is to watch the network traffic in vanilla Firefox, long before this latest switch. Just server connections to 6-10 servers, some outside my county on immediate start up. Firefox has been trash for a long while

Obviously. My local thrift stores can't keep DVDs in stock fast enough and tend to sell out every other week. Who is paying $100/month for all the streaming services when a used DVD is $3

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/privacy-nightmare-on-wheels-every-car-brand-reviewed-by-mozilla-including-ford-volkswagen-and-toyota-flunks-privacy-test/

You aren't a baker at your local bakery??

Lol

What a wild build setup

Hackintosh enters the room

Just so I'm understanding games can be ISO format and then install diredtly?

Thanks for the info. Well, if I'm using SteamOS anyway could I do it without the steam client and no internet connection?

Crypto bad for environment though. Corpo-net good for economy though, so environment never talked about.