You don’t have a authority that decides what is useful and useless, what gets produced and what doesn’t.

Well sort of, the “authority” in the case of a truly free market is The Market (or The People, if you will.) If it sells it sells, if it doesn’t it doesn’t, The Market will decide.

That said, I agree with the rest of your statement and realize that you meant authority in a truer sense, and I in more of a metaphorical sense.

Ads and tracking, same as always.

At least I’ll always have the comics lol.

That sucks. The producers (or directors or someone idfk) have just been charged with making the first screen adaption of one of my favorite ongoing comic series. I’m nervous.

Duh. They use phones mostly. A lot of the gen z people I know are just as bad as boomers with tech. Millennials and gen x had that sweet spot of “actually having to learn how shit works not just iphone go brrr.”

Something like that, yeah. They don’t all notify.

I know that, you know that, many know that, but many don’t. Imo they should be required to inform you, preferably with a splash screen on boot or something similar that says “monitored by XXXXX” or something. Especially for things like schools where it’s more likely kids won’t know it (and will be more likely to become privacy advocates for life from knowingly having theirs violated.)

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I’m a different person than the one you’ve responded to, but I’ve actually been accused.

I am into weird shit and have ADHD like a bitch so I will often excitedly talk about my interests, or a story involving them, which are sometimes fairly niche and I know I need to explain whatever I am saying to whoever I’m talking to, because I know they don’t know the ins and outs of X. I had an ex accuse me of mansplaining and said she’d prefer if I wait for her to ask before I explain something. Alright, fair enough, I mean I’d say I’m ADHDsplaining because I enjoy our conversations but I can work on that. So I complied with her request, a couple months go by, and she tells me I she hates the way I just assume she knows everything and will just breeze past terms like Castle Nut and Endplate without explaining them. She then didn’t like when I explained that she asked me to do literally exactly that in very gendered terms.

I guess I’m just too neurodivergent for all this “other people” business.

It ever was? I was a kid back then, my opinion has never been valued and never will.

That’s how it starts. Gabba gabba we accept you, one of us, one of us.

Ah c’mon bro don’t be like that, we’re just foolin’ around with the bros!

Oh good to know! Maybe I’ll give it another shot, thanks!

Lol I couldn’t resist (just like Patty Hearst! Rimshot)

Step 1 - Kidnap Patty Hearst

Step 2 - Mail her family letters/ransom notes full of drivel and say they have to publish it.

Step 3 - Convince Patty the feds think she’s joined up and will kill her, so she actually will join up.

Step 4 - Make Patty pose for a badass photo

Step 5 - Get more inane SLA communiques printed

Step 6 - ???

Step 7 - Profit Die in a shootout with the police.

But the post is on lemmy, the OP likely isn’t the twitter OP, the one who needs to receive the message is not here to see it. Boycott away, but if the goal is to stop twitter posts you have to tell twitter users, lemmy users are more likely already not using twitter.

Or people who think “yeah it is, but this is clearly an innocuous post, and it being reposted here actually has very little to do with the political leanings of the other platform’s owner, so this comment feels out of place. Seems more like a reply to ‘twitter is good’ than ‘hey look at this octopus and funni caption.’ Sort of a non-sequitur, outside of being tangentially related due to it being a screencap.”

Ok cool thanks, I’ll probably go with something on this list then. My other things I was looking at were the Turris Omnia and the Peplink B-one, but tbh a lynksys with openwrt will likely serve me fine.

Thanks! Just to be sure, the router company becomes inconsequential when I install openwrt, or am I mistaken?

As in say I buy a linksys router and install openwrt, linksys can no longer spy on my traffic, so I shouldn’t worry about that, right?

It’s quite possible those tankies are the very same people excusing his transphobia, they already simp for Castro and Che, who rounded up gay people and put them in “totally not death camps” for their “mandatory service” where they were starved and worked and beaten to death, and they totally excuse him for that, too.

Yeah yeah, “later he said he was sorry he had all those gay people killed in concentration camps.” Uh huh.