I never meant to imply a pacifist would be required to engage in violence, only that they would have to indirectly support it at the very least, lest their own principles be engulfed by those who would see to their extinction.

It’s a tough go for the people who believe in pacifism or nonviolent change.

I tried to use Proton for steam games, baked right in, shouldn’t have many issues right? I’d still encounter games that just didn’t work or had catastrophic bugs. Games that use kernals level anticheat are just not possible without emulation, I couldn’t find low latency emulation, it was… A trial in futility for me. The more I tried to make Linux work the more I had to ask myself why I couldn’t just rip out the windows bloat and use it instead. I thought I was a Windows power user and it would translate to Linux, I was mistaken. I’ve taken for granted how universal Windows is and I have a respect for people willing to beat Linux into submission.

I finally tried Linux. Tried three different Distros meant for beginners and it couldn’t do the one thing I do most better than Windows. Gaming. Too many programs or overlay tools are Windows only. Compatibility programs rarely worked. Wine laughed in my face. Some Linux tools were also only compatible with other kernals.

I made the switch to have more control and felt like I left one series of cages for another.

This wasn’t an open invitation for everyone to out themselves but sure, take care.

Obligatory this isn’t an airport you don’t have to announce your departure joke.

I’ve never shyed away from arguing with anarchists but this is already resolved so thank you? The enlightened anarchist simply has no time for the meager law loving peasants.

I’ve blocked communities and instances that don’t speak English, ones that have absurd ideological basis (anarchy supporters), and occasionally people who just say really dumb things, a lot.

I vastly prefer encouraging blocking over censorship/moderation. If someone is being an asshole, having the ability to say it, vent those feelings for a moment, then readjust is a catharsis that’s been nearly outlawed especially on platforms on like TikTok.

Obviously not everything should be permitted and everything has its limits, but the internet seems to over correct things into a passionless husk of forced friendliness. To shove people into forming a facade that feels like a shrinking cage. Sterile.

Curating my own experience has been invaluable and I highly encourage it.

Seeing this would be sincerely impressive

Linux using proprietary drivers always feels like a plane using a transmission to me.

Plaintext should never be used in any application that deals with security, ever.

Every day I wake up I gamble if I’ll enjoy it or not.

Starts as proof of concept to get you used to it. Toggle it off, hide it, but it exists. It’s there in the code. Next step is to gradually remove the option to say no. They already tried forcing people to upgrade to Windows 11. They’ll just try harder. It’s too much money for them to ignore.

Biometric is high security against thieves and nosy girlfriends, not kidnappers or cops apparently. You need to be physically present for most of them which means it can’t be done without you knowing. The problem arises when the person who wants access also has access to you.

And this is the straw in which I will instruct Microsoft to suck shit through.

Because of people… like you… who provide nothing to a free service besides costing bandwidth… leeches to a free internet… vampires to charity…

What data? Who bought it? Do you have a single fact to back that up?

• Sure, but I think it’s safe to assume your IP is near public information when connecting to any domain.
• Okay, this is a fair point, I don’t think anyone at any company should have sensitive data open to employees. That’d be as bad as having passwords accessible by X role at the company.
• Near meaningless data though. It’d be like if it knew if your keyboard was connected or not. It’s hard to use that information.
• From what I understand, services use phone numbers because it’s harder for bot accounts to be spammed. Whether they allow themselves to go beyond that is up to the company. Even Counter-Strike and Valorant, competitive games in general, do this to curb the automated userbase.

• Everything everywhere I connect to has my IP, oh no.
• It’s not plaintext if it’s encrypted…
• So like cookies but for an application, not that intrusive imo.
• “You may be required to verify your account with a phone number” - I provided a phone number once and they’ve never, at any point, sent me anything or asked me to use it. You could easily use a burner phone.

Even thinking about a company like Google seems like more of a privacy nightmare. This is relatively tame compared to most everything else.

Yeah, sure, complain about it if you want to, it just doesn’t make sense if you’ve already given them the data. I like Signal for privacy but it doesn’t have any customization, no personalization, no personality, it’s nearly sterile. It does it’s job and that’s it. Great for people who want privacy for like… work but for just talking to friends Discord seems more enjoyable.

I haven’t scraped the terms of service to see exactly what kind of data they collect but I’m not extremely worried about it. I don’t put sensitive information into it beyond my payment information for Nitro. I’m sure everyone here on Lemmy, a self-host and open source site/software, is against programs like Discord because they’re proprietary but I personally just enjoy it and don’t find it very limiting.