I’m more and more a fan of keeping my devices without any internet connection.

This is where I am too. Just built a new gaming pc and was planning to do dual boot.

Installed windows 11 LTSC and honestly, it’s everything I want in a gaming pc so I guess no need to install Linux.

Having said that, I bought a pc that came with windows; can’t wait to kill it with fire!

Although I agree in spirit, there is a bloatfree version of windows 11 called LTSC.

Makes me one happy windows user.

Does audiobooks count as reading or do I have to have that perfect picture of hipster with beard reading in a cozy cafe?

Yes exactly. Whenever you go down the road:

“They should go back to where they came from”

It always concludes with kill them all eventually.

These people went to another country because they had no good home, there is no home to go back to.

They have arrived and are willing to do anything for a good life, a smart country would harness that energy instead of pretending these are spoiled expats that just wanted more.

How would that even work? They are doing exactly what their owners donors want.

Are they saying that rich people should want unions or that there needs to be other ways to fund politics?

I mean, at that point you might as well wear normal jeans.

Yeah, I honesty call bullshit on a 78 year old constantly eating McDonald’s.

They are playing a different game.

They are not swimming with sharks but are the scavengers that get the leftovers.

“Best I can do I more cliffhangers”

-valve probably

Ah, this is why I come to lemmy.

Thank you kind user!

Thanks, I needed that.

I didn’t know that picture of Patrick existed.

TIHI

Idk man, besides his “supporters” pretty much everyone around him is selfish and power hungry (probably true for some of his supporters too).

Omg this is the same energy as Stan Lee came back gag

Can I ask how polluting the data will help?

It makes data less reliable.

How do we know if a certain profile is genuine vs someone dicking around. Or mostly genuine and the person didn’t do some malicious compliance for certain parts of the app they don’t care about.

If it becomes a social trend and someone gets caught, it would be easier to say they lied cause they wanted to do a tick tock challenge.

I don’t know what you mean by good data comes with proper consent.

When someone wants to help the data collectors then they would do more proper hygiene to their profile, keep things up to date and give honest feedback. Whereas someone like me never gives consent for data without being forced, so I always try to give as little and lie as much as I can.

I guess the assumption I made was that practically everyone knows apps and websites track them in some shape or form (even the least tech savvy person knows websites get total amount of visits), so “acting like no one is tracking you” isn’t ever true to begin with. Especially given this context for a period tracking app.

I’ve already commented but sorry I got to say

“The first ever mention of an ancient land called Israel was by an Egyptian Pharaoh, Merneptah, 3429 years ago,” reads a meme that has made the rounds on Facebook. “The first ever mention of an ancient land called Palestine was by an Egyptian opportunist, Yasser Arafat, 57 years ago.”

Literally the Do you have a flag argument.

Am Canadian.

Canada didn’t exist a few hundred years ago.

Are we made up people too?

I don’t want to victim blame but if using an app is optional and it could get you in trouble with the law (regardless of how bad the law is), you should not use it.

Having said that, as a dev, please pollute data as much as possible.

Management needs to learn how valuable good data is and good data comes with proper consent (most people wouldn’t share their data if they could opt out).

There are dozens of us, dozens!!