I forgive you, OP

Fuck Nvidia, literally? Not sure who hair guy is but he looks ready for adult stuff.

It’s a nice way of telling you to look elsewhere.

No they don’t “completely scan your phone”. They’re doing plenty of awful stuff though. Why rely on hearsay and “small hints” if you can be scared based on facts? Here’s a starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_Safety#Controversies

One way of helping would be to tell people how to mitigate it. Telling them it’s impossible does the exact opposite.

Gotta love a call for contribution that makes you want to paint your face blue and attack Adobe with a sword lmao

They say it here, but I disagree. Fingerprinting is difficult to prevent but not impossible. Same thing as with malware: You’ll never be 100% protected from malware, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take precautions against it, does it?

Here’s one way of testing how unique your fingerprint is.

Booting a live USB and reinstalling GRUB as follows has saved my butt in the past. Obviously replace the /dev/sdXY paths with your own. Further adjustments might be needed depending on your system.

# mount root partition:
sudo mount /dev/sdXY2 /mnt
# mount boot partition (if there is any)
sudo mount /dev/sdXY3 /mnt/boot
# mount efi partition (if there is any)
sudo mount /dev/sdXY1 /mnt/boot/efi
# mount other partitions:
for dir in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /sys/firmware/efi/efivars /run; do sudo mount --bind $dir /mnt$dir; done  
# chroot into mounted system:
sudo chroot /mnt /bin/bash -i 
# reinstall grub:
grub-install 
# rebuild grub.cfg:
update-grub 
# rebuild initramfs (not sure if necessary):
update-initramfs -u
# sync, exit chroot, reboot:
sync
exit
sudo reboot

Great, we agree that these companies aren’t profiting off of monthly subscriptions but data collection instead. Allow me to rewind:

@harmbugler@piefed.social said:

How about companies have to pay a monthly subscription fee for our data.

A funny comment implying the companies are making unfairly high profits off of their users’ data. Your reply:

They do if you’re using their service without paying for it.

You strike me as someone who understands that it’s impossible to use such services without paying with data. So an appropriate response would be “No, they don’t”. Agreed?

If I were to state the obvious and acknowledge that running a website costs money, would you in return stop dodging my initial point too?

You’re free to not use services that use this business model.

Let’s not act as if this prevents them from collecting my data anyway.

My point was that providing a service free of charge means the company pays the costs of the service. Some companies offset this by collecting data and providing ads.

So you agree that these companies earn money despite me not paying them a subscription. Going back to my initial point: Do they lose money if I use their service without paying for it? Answer: No, they don’t. Wasn’t so hard, was it?

You’re implying that this is about small businesses. Big corporations don’t compare with a gas station. They make ridiculously large amounts of money off of ignorance, apathy, corruption, or us being too distracted by struggling to survive.

So do they or do they not lose money if I use their service without paying for it?

No, they don’t. You give them data by using their service. They then earn money with that data.

Welcome to Lemmy :), you’ll fit right in lmao

Nice specs, nice setup. You might want to add another rainbow sticker or two, just in case :p

I’m confused. Did you help dad or did you install Windows on his machine?

“Break Stuff” is what you were looking for tbf

Have you checked your local relationharbour

Maybe because you misread the memo and went through Methamorphosis instead?