Tankie begone

We’re still in the uncanny valley, but it seems that we’re climbing out of it. I’m already being ‘tricked’ left and right by near perfect voice ai and tinkered with image gen

Skill issue

HTPC + wireless mouse

All other solutions are memes.

LineageOS on the other hand you have to do a boatload of stuff to de-Google it.

???

LineageOS doesn’t come with Google Play Services on board at all, you have to flash it (or MicroG) if you want it. Why just make shit up?

For those who want some insurance, I know a secret exploit to double gold in RuneScape and I can help you out.

This place has the same amount of high-quality content and intelligent conversation as reddit. Not proportion, amount.

I’m fine with them getting filtered. This place already has no shortage of fools.

I’m fine with the UI filtering out the riffraff

Britain did that, British North America was sitting quietly in the back seat playing Pokemon by that point.

Invalid opinion. There’s still time to delete this.

Remind me again what Russia did with your country the instant it got the chance?

I wonder how much you’ll have to pay in order to avoid having a negative spin on yours.

And here I thought I’d never see a lower form of wit than punning.

Let me guess. Dumped by an art girl and anxious about the $600 you invested?

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You’re pretty much just missing Mississippi, New Jersey, and Boston and you’ll have made a complete circuit of all the places with the most assholes. Hard luck.

If the general bulk of appreciable-quantity tech investors suddenly found out in granular detail what is actually being done with their money as opposed to what they were told, it would probably cause the biggest crash since the Great Depression.

Five years from now:

Apple spokesman claims reports that eye-tracking Accessibility feature usage was sold ‘exaggerated’

A spokesman for Apple dismissed reports that the company’s eye-tracking accessibility feature—designed assist impaired users with using their device by detecting eye movements—was also tracking their interest in potentially sensitive topics and selling the data to advertising partners and law enforcement agencies, calling the allegations “grossly exaggerated” and stating “the term ‘sell’ demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the structure of Apple’s partnership agreements as detailed in the Terms of Service”. Whistleblowers claim the software runs constantly even when not enabled, and allegedly checks reading speed and pupil dilation to gauge interest in products and services, but also in “sensitive topics”. According to data mined by researchers from the University of [Blue State], this allegedly includes topics such as race relations and white supremacy, protesting and civil disobedience, firearm ownership, industrial sabotage, anti-corporate activism, abortion, environmentalism, police brutality, and political movements. Apple declined to comment further after the conclusion of their press release.

Yes, because it perpetuates demand.