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Google Allows Creditors to Brick Your Phone (lemmy.world)

I installed NetGuard about a month ago and blocked all internet to apps, unless they're on a whitelist. No notifications from this particular system app (that can't be disabled) until recently when it started making internet connection requests to google servers. Does anyone know when this became a thing?...

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Sony Xperia 1 here, no app, neither.

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If you had a Sound Blaster 16, you had an extra IDE port on the board, which DOS couldn't see and you had to load special drivers to use them. Usually it was used for the CD-ROM.

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I get the joke, but lots of people, me included, start to understand why people pay so much for a Mac. It's not the hardware, it's not having to deal with Windows.

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No offence but you're a bad it person if you really think like that.

I love to suggest Apple products to my relatives, because they're too dumb and I don't have to give technical support, lol.

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I have 20 years of experience in Linux. I'm not the average "I'm using Arch btw" Linux user. I managed several services at work with Linux and have a homelab at home.

If I wasn't a PC gamer, Windows was gone from my house. That's how I prefer Linux.

Having said that, your statement is objectively wrong.

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I support the right tool for the right task, I'm not a company cultist, I'm sure Apple is as fucked up as Microsoft, I believe you. But I don't care.

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I don't want to argue with you, because your thoughts are right and you raise valid good points when interacting on social media.

But just to add something, I didn't say he's a bad person, I have no clue about that, I did say he's a bad IT person. In other words, not qualifies for the role, if I can have an opinion on that.

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You're changing the environment to favour your fight. I agree with you, 90% of the times in servers space, Linux works better.

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I wish.

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With dos 5.x I started creating some fancy auroexec menu at boot that switches between several configurations depending if I wanted to run windows, need a lot of xms or a big chunk of Ems (640k was NOT enough for everything).

It was somehow fun.

But at least, if something is not working, it was entirely your fault. Now? It's probably windows update who fucked up something you desperately need right now.

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Damn, should I load the mouse driver or the CD-ROM driver? If I load both, I can't run strike commander!

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Time 2 years top, there will be an AI that converts perfectly COBOL into JavaScript.

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The problem is consistency. Buy some Turkish delight in Istanbul and they're ok, but some in Konya and they're the sweetest thing you'll ever eat, you cannot have them without some proper Turkish black tea.

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There are pistachio Turkish delight. The traditional rosé taste is not for everyone.

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I think pişmaniye are better than Turkish delight.

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Brilliant, all the propaganda about "join us, the fediverse is like email" gone to shit. More like "it's like email, but if you email ends with @hotmail.com we will block your messages".

I agree with the sentiment, not with these actions, instead of giving meta users a way to break free, we built a wall between us and them, who have way more content, because we're afraid of Zuck stealing our data, which is public and he already done.

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LoL my current Gentoo system was installed like 12 years ago and moved on 5 different hardware platforms without a proper reinstall.

I have said myself to never peek in the /etc directory for any reason! 😅

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