maybe residual firefox configs that were disabled but not purged?

Are tankies defending theocracies against western imperialism? I don’t know, I blocked hexbear, lemmygrad and ml communities (yeah, I know it’s ironic considering the instance I’m from, but I ended up here because of FOSS)

For four years we were in the same class, this was more than twenty years ago*

About the rest of your message, yeah, I grew up among a bunch of gay men that never had a problem saying they were gay, so I didn’t see a problem in calling the gay kid gay, because yes he is gay, even though at the time he maybe hadn’t come to terms with it? I’d also think it would be funny if he is still mad at me for telling him he was gay after he came to terms with it… if I was to apologize today, would it be like “Hey, I’m sorry I told you were gay, even though you are proud of it?” (as per pride parade pictures).
Sorry I couldn’t think saying someone is gay could be offensive, as if there was something wrong with it.

per me: “went over my head” “not that this was something funny”, they asked who was the gay in class, and I said the gay was the gay kid, and the gay kid got mad. It wasn’t my intention to mock him, I didn’t think of gay as mockery. For me it was the same if they asked who was the blonde kid and I pointed at the blonde kid. No, he didn’t say he was gay nor did I ask, again, for me it was just obvious…
Sorry, I thought this story would be funny because of the irony (he becoming a drag queen performer after being mad I told him he was gay).

As I said, for me it was obvious since we met that he was gay, it didn’t made a difference for me. He got mad when I said it and never talked to me again. And yep, now he is a very proud gay… so was it really talking out of my ass?
No, I don’t think I tried to apologize to him back then. We were kids, I was also mad he shut me off, and with time I just didn’t care anymore if he didn’t want to talk to me, and life moved on.

I’m picturing people dumpster diving just to find receipts to scan. I didn’t know this was a thing… hell, I always destroy my personal info on mail packages, gonna start destroying receipts as well.

No, I didn’t let him take the picture and send it to who knows who :P

He also wanted me to sign up because he would get a referral bonus, but I’m good.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they have managers and assistant managers, with junior vice managers and branch assistant junior vice executive managers, with some millions of budget for market research and ads, and it was the unpaid internship guy that handled the YT acc though

Kinda funny they probably have a huge department with a huge budget made specifically for YouTube and whoever was handling uploading stuff failed to tick a box lol

I could never tell apart Magic the Gathering, Mt. Gox and Men Going Their Own Way when people use those acronyms, and now there’s a new one…

I remember once Johnny Depp visited my country and he decided to buy like 200 hearing aid devices for kids and everyone was like “wow, the rich are so good, they are going to save us, the government is doing nothing”, but in that year alone 400k hearing aid devices were provided through the public healthcare system…

Well, I don’t really see a point in having to download and install another program just to download and install the program I actually want to install… also, I hate launchers (launching a program to launch the program I want to launch?!?)

Every Big Tech CEO for the last 10 years or so are Gen X, this massive surveillance and data collection is totally their thing, previous tech CEOs weren’t such scumbags :P (or just weren’t creative enough to be such scumbags)

I was shocked when I discovered it was him in the car in Waking Life

kinda reads like he is quitting cd projekt to focus on his less stressing passion? gog games don’t have those hard deadlines to present demos at big events and shit and need to get everyone overworked to quench shareholders :P

\o/

Say that to the GrapheneOS devs and they gonna hit with 20 pages talking about sandboxing this and boolean that to show neither the OS nor the Vanadium browser can spy on you and point to all documentation :P

Well, if you say all alternatives from F-Droid are also spying, we don’t have much to talk.

Do you really block the word “improve” in your head? Not fucking once I claimed commercial OS could be private so you are arguing against your own imagination here.
Yeah, if someone got a phone and he doesn’t have the means of getting one compatible with a better OS, I really hope he manages to IMPROVE his privacy with better programs and workarounds. If you however don’t give a fuck and think it’s useless to try to improve his privacy because the OS is still shit, well, either buy that person a device that can use a better OS or move on, because telling that person to just buy it isn’t helping.

Like saying it’s useless to use Tor if you are not on Tails…
I suggest that you just admit you don’t want to help people improve privacy within their means. If they can’t have it all, they should have nothing.

Yeah, but while libre software is only available on specific, expensive hardware, it is a PRIVILEGE for the rich.

Do a test: think of a country that you believe people would need GrapheneOS to protect themselves against the government. Be sure Pixel phones aren’t available there, so just take the retail price of the latest model (because of its limited support time, and other models are going to be just as expensive, buying the latest is more cost-effective) and convert it to that country’s currency. Add 5% because banks get a share in the exchange. Expect that this cost will be at least doubled by tariffs, as third-world countries are full of protectionist taxes and corruption. Wait, we didn’t add the shipping costs yet. So if the retail cost of a Pixel is $800, expect someone from a third-world country to pay $1600~$2000 for it.
But wait, now check the average income of that place, and you can safely remove 30% of it to get a number closer to the real average income because of top 1% earners and higher income inequality. Now consider that if someone manages to spend only 80% of that income on housing, utilities, transport, clothing, food, healthcare, education/childcare, etc, that person is in a really comfortable zone and can think about buying a new smartphone. Hell, if that person is committed to not eating out even once and only keeps some money for emergency medicine and such, they could spend up to 10% on it. How many months would it take for them to pay for a Pixel 9?
I did the math quickly here: for a Venezuelan, it would take about 88 months of heavy sacrifices and having no savings, which means the phone would go out of support before they could fully pay for it… oh, and I didn’t take interest rates into account.

So yeah, thanks to everyone who gave tips on how to improve privacy and security on commercial OS.