On Voyager, popular mobile client, there’s this setting page (linking image because apparently there’s no space left on my instance’s storage):

Welcome to modern telemetry. All this proves is MacOS is no different. Linux is the only safe haven, and even then - only if the user is careful about the programs they install.

A decade of voluntary, part-time, crowdfunded development maybe

Unfortunately, that’s the cost of products made by and for the people - rough but private and mostly noninvasive.

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Mine was fine until I upgraded my broadband. Under my new service the ISP doesn’t allow their IPs to be taken off of the Zen spamlist, so I’m pretty much fucked over and at the behest of the ISP

Edit: How do you have a limit? You outsource? I self host so my limit is my hardware.

Edit 2: Ah I see, there are services that charge for their hardware.

Exposing truth can often get people killed, especially if the liars are in the government, want to kill witnesses or rats, or at least make their lives hell for betraying the state. Depending on the severity, livelihoods are often at stake. That’s why very few people engage in whistleblowing. They’re aware that it will not get better for them.

The new moon, haha, it’s not black it’s just shaded

Great news! I tested with a VM and no GPU except iGPU, apparently my issue may have been no Vulkan support. I’ll need a new machine to fully explore it

I test-ran EndeavourOS for a future PC and like it. I am a Steam gamer though, so my work’s cut out for me in getting it to work on whatever hardware I choose.

I don’t think many people on the Arch forums have that outlook on EndeavourOS. It is Arch with benefits

Posts from Lemmy do come up with searching, at least on DDG, so the best thing people can do is stop adding reddit at the end of a parameter and start adding lemmy

A 1.8 year old article.

Privacy and Apple don’t often mix…

It could be the keyboard you use, if you’ve activated STT recently, or an app has been installed secretly by another app.

Edit: Found discussions on Apple.com:

1. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255504146
2. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254804172

Three potential fixes courtesy of Reddit:

Good thing your government isn’t the world police - we have multinational organisations that handle that

Google has pretty much always been a prick, but recently they’ve been showing just how bug a prick they can be, with ramping up company acquisition, destruction and closure, ad obsession, censorship and other anti consumer moves. I believe rooting is essential to privacy, because Google. The less power conglomerates and corporations have the better.

I knew the Israeli-Palestine conflict would cone up eventually. I’m with him for most things up until that point. He called the attack on October 7th a “genocide”. Genocide is attempted eradication of a demographic of humanity deemed lesser by the attackers. The IDF is committing genocide against Palestine, not the other way around…

On a side note, is there any truth in his claims about increasing antisemitic attacks on Jewish residents of, I’m guessing, the US? I know the acting President threw a sieg heil but if the US is really starting to go that way, that’s very worrying. Last time Jews were persecuted, between 11 and 29 million non-‘cishet white christian males’ were murdered alongside them.

I also appreciate that Notepad notes now don’t need to be manually saved to a file. They’re probably in temp storage somewhere, but the point is you can just write and close.

You right. I was talking to my partner the other day about the injustice of record labels taking the artists’ achievements as their own, putting the artists’ triple platinum record on their walls as if they did more than advertise. Authors too - some authors sign predatory contracts with publishers that completely castrate their earnings but the publisher gets rich. Creators of media, for the most part, get completely wrung dry unless they manage themselves. I’d say movies are one of the only sectors of the industry that don’t leech the artists as far as I know

I use DuckDuckGo’s email proxy service, you can sign up for one custom email and generate any amount of temporary-use addresses for the ones you don’t trust to stop spamming when you ask them to. The purpose of their system is to be the address you sign up with, and they do their best to strip trackers and garbage, and forward it onto an email of your choice. You can change the forwarding email at any point, so it can be incredibly useful for a transitioning period.

I use Mailcow dockerized for a home domain, it is actually a very acceptable price for me being able to:

• Control my own DNS rules (it was a nightmare trying to use DuckDNS for an mailserver because of the rules you need to set)
• Run through a reliable service because DuckDNS occasionally went down, making my domain unreachable and breaking external access of any server I run
• Have a personalised public home for myself, if I ever want to make blogs or provide public services or something

I used a very lovely and helpful YouTuber’s guide for it, Opentaq (here)

1 - I don’t believe you can use Minecraft without Microsoft any more - Mojang accounts were discontinued in favour of Microsoft accounts, and unmigrated accounts were deleted in 2023.

2 - Many updates have happened, but the launcher still lets you download and play every single version released, from major (x.), minor (.xx), to snapshots and one day specials, to the very first working version. Note: the first version is also available to play online for free. The last non-Microsoft update was 1.7.2 I believe