I wonder where they got that idea from

Me? I’m more of a π-male myself

huh

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2d minecraft ftw

It’s on, as well as usb debugging

So basically, they are fined nothing (100k is less than a millionth of Meta’s net worth)

37 isn’t middle-aged? I had no idea!

NewPipe

You mean things like the Intel Management Engine? I think they are partially disabled, like in librebooted ThinkPads.

The only good computer is one you have the hardware schematics to (i.e. virtually none of them).

Purism, System76 and, more recently, Framework

If you don’t want to use Signal, use a forked version of it - Session (doesn’t require a phone number, only has a code number as id) or SimpleX Chat (not even a code number, completely private)

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Infinity

still works though I have been getting a lot of load errors

I mean, no suprise there, every country calls out every other country on that. It’s only OK for the American goverment agencies to spy on Americans.

Every country has survaillance, US just makes the most noise with laws being passed. It’s the principle that matters - once other countries see that a certain law allows them to monitor people more closely, they’ll want to pass their version of that law. Australia is basically a Police State, UK also has very privacy-invasive laws.

You didn’t say it, yes. But established survaillance can be countered by encrypted messanging apps, so the next logical step is to ban them. In fact, the US has been trying to do so for a long time now and the same excuse is always given - “think of the children”. There’s a video by Louis Rossmann and another one by Mental Outlaw, both going into detail about why this is just that, an excuse. Survaillance isn’t normal and should not be normalised.

not a drug connoisseur.

wants all drugs banned because “drugs > bad”