Thx, that’s exactly my concern as I remember it being an issue when I was flashing ROMs in the past.

I wonder if Square would still work, for example? I haven’t flashed open source ROMs on my phone since like 2012.

Honestly though, I just consider the phone a lost cause when it comes to privacy & use it accordingly. Uncle Googs is always watching, even when the damn thing is turned off.

Yeah I pretty much agree with all of this.

We’re in this situation where a lot of kids don’t want to be there because they’re not learning what they want to learn (only what brings in the funding), but they can’t leave, but they also can’t fail. So, like, what are we even doing?

It’s a mess but unfortunately I don’t see the current clown show of a Federal Admin making any positive adjustments in the future.

EDIT: Oh, 1/2 1/3 of the staff of the Dept of Education just got Doged, so, guess I’m a motherfucking psychic!

Mullvad is really for anonymous sessions. It’s meant to blend in with every other Mullvad instance on the Net so it helps make users harder to identify. It’s not geared towards daily use.

On desktop, I switched to Librewolf and installed the Dark Reader add-on.

I will continue using Firefox on Android because I have absolutely no illusions about my privacy on this fucking thing.

Didn’t they also elude to collecting telemetry recently? I know it’s up for some debate but, if true, I’m not sure that’s a thing we can turn off.

Imo there are plenty of good teachers but, a lot of times, public schools don’t want good teachers, they want good test results.

I have a theory that this is intentional design.

When products perform smoothly, you don’t interact with them, they become invisible, & Uncle Googs needs you interacting with their products as much as possible.

Thanks to telemetry, Good Ol’ Uncle Googs has millions of hours of behavioral patterns to sift through, provided by all those free Chromebooks for school districts across the US.

So Google know exactly what gets folks engaging with their phones &, I believe, intentionally cause frustration over seemingly simple tasks b/c many many people will forget what they were doing, fix the issue, then get distracted by entertainment apps, doom scrolling, etc.

Dark patterns & behavioral manipulation.

I think we can all agree, Nutsack is being falsely maligned.

Well, ‘.ml’ doesn’t exactly stand for “Mildly Liberal.”

But unlike Reddit, you can block the entire .ml instance if you’d like.

In fact, if you don’t get along with .ml, do yourself a favor & block the Hexbear instance if your home instance hasn’t already.

Thank you, but I’ve been on Lemmy for about two years.

I was still contributing to Reddit because some of their more niche communities weren’t really replicated anywhere else, but I’m done with that now!

Lol I’ve been here awhile, but, yes.

Oh, I see. It’s the incredibly vague, ‘they,’ that confused me, ty.

Holy shit, what a diplomatic nightmare.

EDIT: Nvmd, another user helped me understand.

I don’t understand why you say he “clearly” meant that?

EDIT: Got it. “They” is a stupidly ambiguous word for someone in Fuckknob’s powerful position to be using willy-nilly.

Will you please point to the timestamp that verifies what you’re claiming?

Sounds more to me like he’s having his first thought.

Americans didn’t grant him power, that’s a big part of the problem.

Pretty much!

Also, you can get really excited on a much smaller scale. Four hundred upvotes? That’s viral madness on Lemmy!

I received one of these fucking warnings!

Been on reddit for fourteen goddamned years, but this is the thing that has finally gotten me off board for good.

Reddit is dead.

I got an Orwellian warning from those motherfuckers at Reddit that said I upvote too many posts that “glorify violence”(!?!?). I guess because I believe all Nazis can die?

I’m finally out for good. If they want a safe space for the loser racists at /r/conservative they can have it!