Maximizing privacy on Android without custom ROMs?
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    1. You should use a VPN or an tracker blocker like DuckduckGo. This is the only way to slow down the information you are sending out. You might not be able to completely stop Google and Samsung from tracking you, but there's no reason to share yourself with all other data harvesting services.

    2. You have to obfuscate the info that makes it through by using multiple, unlinked Google accounts that let you put separate components of your life into separate silos.

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  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
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    The goal is to move you to powershell

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  • What's the most petty/pointless/pedantic hill you're willing to die on?
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    Better idea: Make them superplurals.

    E.g. fish (singular), fish (plural), fishes (superplural)

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  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    I left Windows because of the Settings nonsense.

    12 years later you rubes are still getting fucked by this garbage. That's why I'm here. 😂

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  • Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 21%

    Windows 8 came out in 2012. I switched to Linux shortly after.

    If you've been suffering through this as a home user you have nobody but yourself to blame.

    You're not so busy you can't learn a new OS in 12 years!

    Plebs.

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  • Dolphins is whales.
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    The space between a wale's blowhole and their teeth isn't their forehead, it's an enlarged upper lip.

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  • It's complicated
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    The only terminal cancer worth mentioning around here is MS-DOS.

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  • Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    Google says Manifest v3 is being done "for security reasons" but what they don't say is that it's not for your security.

    It's a Judge Dredd situation.

    Google is vertically integrating the roles of content provider (ads) and content server so that web pages load exactly the way the page's developer expects them to. This necessarily excludes things that selectively filter content, like blockers.

    They're essentially taking an open framefork for the web and replacing it with interactive pdfs, that show exactly what the web developer wants, and collects exactly the information the developer wants to know about you.

    If you think you should have more control, use Firefox. Anyone using Chrome is complict at this point.

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    Type Rule
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    "Fast charging" has 4 conductors.

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  • Let's check what's making my laptop fan spin up
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    Try btop -u 1

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  • Let's check what's making my laptop fan spin up
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    They are just reading /proc and re-arranging the information

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  • Time Flies
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    It's a new take on being self-centered.

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  • Real examples here?
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    GNU readline is a library that handles text input

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  • Anon checks out mobile gaming
  • s_s s_s 2mo ago 100%

    Duskwood

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  • Dutch toilets
  • s_s s_s 3mo ago 100%

    You got long balls, Larry.

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  • "Initials" by "Florian Körner", licensed under "CC0 1.0". / Remix of the original. - Created with dicebear.comInitialsFlorian Körnerhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearPO
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    What's stopping him?
  • s_s s_s 4mo ago 100%

    History and simple logic shows that if you try to out-fascist the fascist, some sort of fascism always wins.

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    Covers the best guesses current scholarship and archæology gives about the origin of Yahweh following the Bronze Age Collapse.

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    It doesn't matter to current leadership of reddit how many people it pisses off. For every user of third-party apps, there are now 10 bots and sockpuppet accounts it gets to count as active users. And that is exactly how you blow the roof off your IPO. Alphabet and Meta have been lying about their user engagement numbers for decades at this point. "Impressions" are all self-reported and they have zero incentive to be honest. Reddit's VC money is begging Spez to get into this game before the IPO. For all they lies they are saying out loud, this is the quiet one.

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