you can’t actually turn it off unless you can disconnect all power sources

why $(pwd) instead of just . ?

good news for those being locked out of their data by one of the faulty windows 11 upgrades!

yeah. but in my experience, what’s worse is people just have a hard time using it. especially when they only need it rarely and don’t have the need to learn it. and it doesn’t help that it’s redesigned every year.

its just as usable with KDE, but depending on distro you might need to install the server part yourself.

but also these are LAN only solutions, and VPN. for actual remote access you have to forward ports but I wouldn’t do that for risky things like that. Instead use rustdesk, but even teamviewer would be a better idea

rustdesk

not really a problem. it stays unlocked, and for when she occasionally needs to log in again it will be printed on a paper

there’s a bunch of improvements too

wow, that fluent search is basically the kde plasma’s app launcher

It’s not the CCTV you want to worry about. The CCTV is overwritten regularly and typically goes nowhere.

yes, it is the CCTV. Because there is no way to verify by yourself that the recordings don’t get transmitted or processed for their contents all the time.

Carrying a smartphone and worrying about CCTV while you post pictures of yourself where LLMs can scrape them is utterly irrational.

that’s a huge assumption. that kind of people don’t usually complain about CCTVs.

ironfox is not a brand new browser, but a soft fork like librewolf, always kept up to date. what it removes is the garbage google components, nothing useful is removed as I know. it even has a couple additional settings related to privacy, and Unified Push support for some reason I could not yet figure out

Personally, I might have to use two phones in the future, kind of like how I saw some do in China. One for the official, mandated bullshit, and one for personal things, with an operating system that does not snitch on every action I take.

but how will you make sure the mandatory phone does not snitch on you when it’s around you? Considering you’ll probably keep it at home, maybe even bring it with you when out and about when needed for some reason.

which I presume is nowhere close to feature equivalent to Firefox.

why do you presume that?

oh don’t you worry, it won’t. Because those who refuse the surveillance will face the highest prices.

recently I bought something in a shop I rarely go to. plenty of things they sold for two times the price if you didn’t have a member card.

who else is going to respond if you are unwilling to provide evidence?

wow, that’s good to know! but how do you know it is happening?

@TheDude@sh.itjust.works is what this user says true?

for the record, I don’t believe logging in with wechat is any better, and recaptcha is present on the utilities websites of my european country leaning towards china.

if you were the illiterate consumer you would be scrolling slop on youtube instead of asking questions like this here

doesn’t matter when it can’t be determined whether it transmits anything or not. if this is the future, then it is very dark.

No way the definition of normal I gave is the common one.

maybe, but definitely not a rare one. for instance I regularly hear that people deem others weird because the other person cares about their privacy, and does “extreme” things to achieve it, like not using facebook or using a less known email provider. while I think it’s the normal thing to do so, others (mostly who don’t care about privacy) think it’s not normal, reason being it’s not the common thing to do.

I was meaning it mostly about this part:

Something being normal is rooted on it being the norm, as in, something typical. If you think something is odd, you can’t feel like it’s normal just for you, that’s not what the norm means. Maybe it seems natural to you? Sure, but not normal.