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Vinny_93

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Vinny_93 ,

It's the privacy vs convenience problem. For most people, the convenience is so much more important so when you can just use Google to sign in everywhere, you get rid of your passwords remembering issue (oh my god how many people have blamed me for losing their passwords, I'm an IT guy).

Companies want to maximise profits by 'knowing' (ie tracking) their customers so they can tailor their products or services to actual usage. A noble goal? They just want to be more convenient for us.

In the end I guess having an account anywhere and the companies seeing anonimised or aggregated, no personally identifiable records, should not be an issue. But they don't need to keep track of where I live, what my e-mail adress or phone number is and especially need not now any third party stuff.

It has become a very untrustworthy business just because the companies could do whatever they wanted and now that there is more scrutiny, they just find back alley ways to screw us over.

Vinny_93 ,

I'm not saying I agree with their policies, I just know about their own way they justify their data hunger

Vinny_93 ,

I've suggested password managers to loads of people who'd rather cling to updating their little pocketbooks where it's impossible to distinguish between certain characters and password versions. The stubbornness of tech illiterates is stunning.

Vinny_93 ,

Read up on Intel QSV. You essentially only need a recent cpu. i3 would do.

Vinny_93 ,

I hear good things about the Intel Arc A380. You basically only need it to convert video and the Intel is not too bad at that for not too steep a price

Vinny_93 ,

So what you're saying is America sucks at democracy.

Signed, a European whose government is still forming after elections because 27 parties

Vinny_93 ,

Not yet at least. We are rapidly americanising.

Vinny_93 ,

Yeah and the other half that doesn't is either dead or so famous that they don't really need the money

Vinny_93 ,

I'm sorry. I'm just absolutely flabbergasted by the Jeph of it all.

Vinny_93 ,

Root and Shaw of Person of Interest.
And Joss Carter from Person of Interest

Vinny_93 ,

Pela neste daquilo

Vinny_93 ,

Keep learning Portuguese and you'll figure it out someday

Vinny_93 ,

I understand how you might feel this way. But a key difference to the early 1930s is that there are many large-scale protests against far right extremism in Germany. The elections in the Netherlands did produce a right wing tendency, but there is no government as of yet and the PVV is still pretty far away from fascism. The other three large winners of the election are not even that right wing. At least no more than the party that ruled for the last 15 years.

That said, I do kinda hope that this phase passes quickly and that people will start to finally get along and care about our fellow humans. Even though we never have.

Vinny_93 ,

Sick my duck

Vinny_93 ,

Who uses chrome anyway even there's vivaldi

what are your recommendations for a good privacy friendly sms app?

Hello, currently I use qksms but its very problematic and lacks basic fetures. One of those issues being you cant send videos, and sending and recieving media is pixalated or blurry because of a commpresion issue. I've already tried adjusting the compresion options in settings to find out it doesn't work....

Vinny_93 ,

Signal does sms but they may not be as privacy friendly as they claim. Although idk.

Vinny_93 ,

Oh I was unaware. Sorry!

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