How in the world do you figure Apple hasn’t earned their reputation for planned obsolescence when they serialize every part in the device, don’t allow for 3rd party repairs, constantly refuse to repair devices, constantly make them harder to repair, don’t make absolutely any repair documentation available, sue the people who find said documentation and make it available, and send ICE to raid businesses who are able to actually get their hands on replacement parts?

still don’t fully know what’s going on with reddit

Reddit wants to kill 3rd party apps so people have to user their terrible ad-infested privacy-invading first party app so they can harvest and sell your data.

CEO says devs are “choosing” not to work with them while sending them bills in the tens of millions of dollars.

Mastodon has a bit of a learning curve but once you figure it out, it’s amazing. I cringe at the thought of governments and politicians posting on Twitter and being monitored and censored by Twitter. Now they can all just create their own servers and control their own information.

I mean the internet archive is already scraping this data so if these companies want my data they can get it from there, unfortunately. Although when possible I will set auto-delete for 2 weeks to make it harder to find 😃

The solution is to go into your app settings and set Google Play links to open in Aurora. Then do a DuckDuckGo for the apps and when you click the link it will open in Aurora. Not ideal but it’s worked well for me.

Mods are afraid these other instances might influence your views. Just switch to another uncensored instance.

I cannot. I’ve set up a feed and when I go to a thread I just click in the text box and start typing. Might be something to do with your instance?

shocked Pikachu face

You can subscribe to RSS feeds from companies that provide them, or you can pay for a service that will create one for you like RSS.app

I’ve never heard of neuters.

As few as possible. Browser extensions can be used to fingerprint you.

I only run uBlock, as it’s included with most privacy-focused browsers like LibreWolf. Even better if the browser has built-in domain blocking like Brave, then you don’t even need that.

Couple of things: 1 is to run a privacy-friendly OS. AtlasOS is not really an OS at all, but really just Windows 10 stripped of all the spyware. This also removes pretty much all of the security features so you really ONLY want to run this on a gaming-only device, or on a gaming-only sandboxed partition. Otherwise, Proton has made Linux very usable for the vast majority of games.

Second: Look at the yellow boxes on Steam. This is where they disclose all the shady shit publishers are pushing on you. Don’t buy games with DRM. Don’t buy games with anti-cheat, this is incredibly invasive software. Don’t buy games that require you to sign an EULA, which is usually just forfeiting all of your privacy rights. Don’t buy “online-only” games.

All games on GOG require no DRM so those are usually a good bet.

Not really necessary. Just look at the number of respected community members who have been harrassed by McKay. He is constantly harrassing his own supporters. I’ll forever be grateful for the work he has done with GOS but the man is unwell and needs help, and stepping down is the best thing he could have done for the project.

I’m doing it right now :)

What if the post was removed publicly, kept for 30 days, then removed from the server entirely? Similar to the way the “trash” in your trash bin works on PC.