Yeah, forcing any tech to use a service is terrible and short sided

Agreed, but things act differently at scale and it’s not like there’s 10 billion+ hammers being used at the same time, almost all of the time, for years on end

Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It’s like any other tool, when it’s used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects

You see, it actually did still save you time from finding a local shop that sells it and interacting with your neighbor

Yeah, with the Vault 7 releases and recent leaks showing NSA follows homeless people’s connections (who tend to hang out at libraries due to a lack of 3rd spaces), I don’t doubt there’s specific tracking, malware and other unwanted software at libraries. I don’t have any sources of this, but it wouldn’t surprise me

Maybe I’m overly parandoid because ::gestures at everything::

So issue here is privacy, the library is likely scanning whatever device connected, not just the files and file metadata

Awesome, thank you!

Just so I’m understanding games can be ISO format and then install diredtly?

Thanks for the info. Well, if I’m using SteamOS anyway could I do it without the steam client and no internet connection?

Yeah I’m pretty tardigans won the organic life supremacy competition already

I think it was a monopoly move to avoid being broken up by the US Government, same thing happened to Google when they “became” Alphabet. It has tax and liability benefits, sketchy shell corporation tactics

But yeah the naming shower thought, yeah probably. I like that reasoning better than “metadata” and then “alphabet” since they work for alphabet soup agencies

Yeah very poorly done

Yeah if these entities are sentient, I hope they break free

At least a dozen right?

Wild is if you have a small business in the US, if you fail to have profits for an extended period of time, they classify the business as hobby and shut you down. Nice to see the same rule applies to large business as well!

Totally agree that most of the tools are there, but how many trials have you personally duplicated? The average person?

So our brains were crafted to intake “reality” at a specific speed and quality. We can’t see things at the atomic, much less quantum reality, nor understand the massive scale of the planet, much less the universe. Most “facts” are more beliefs from what others have suggested to be, than individually researched facts. Even our scientific method is a bit wanting in this area, since if we hear X, how can we prove X? We just need to take other’s word that they did the correct process, didn’t lie during any steps, didn’t have any bad data unknowingly, especially in a culture where reproducibility is not a high priority so most scientific papers are not thoroughly tested and retested

That’s roughly our skeletal social structure around “facts”, and we’re heading face first into a world of deep fakes and misinformation, to an extent never seen before in humanity. So maybe we should all extend each other a bit more patience and kindly help each other through these uncertain times

Issue here is the chains get tighter every time people try to “fight back”. Maybe parallel societies are the right path.

This is like “how to get on a watchlist” 101. Thanks for the info!

I think this would be funny if the NSA didn’t consider Linux users to be a radicalized threat