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Hi, I’m Miss Brainfart.

I’m afraid of sharks, with the exception being blåhaj. What could that possibly mean, huh.
(That’s not a hint, I genuinely have no idea)

Lemmings can also find me @miss_brainfart:catgirl.cloud on Matrix, if they desire to do so for e2ee reasons

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GrapheneOS seems to be the all out best, from what I can tell. It’s just that their strict requirements needed to achieve this level of privacy and especially security severly limit the selection of devices you can use, which is a bummer.

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Yeah, the default lineage cam today can’t do a whole lot either

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I haven’t seen it used much in a non-gendered way, so I guess that’s why it has a clear masculine ring in my head

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The only reason it’s like that is because devices come preinstalled with Windows. I would love if we had the Linux option that makes the device cost less

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Kiwi as in from New Zealand

EU regulation and oculus quest

Ive seen MS is having to do a lot of work in regards to pro privacy due to EU regulation, I switched on my oculus quest which I keep offline and questioned if enforced account, locked in applications that serve beyond base functions and the locked down setting, surely all this goes against privacy laws in some way....

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If they transparently inform buyers about the account requirement and what that means, then they have done their duty and are compliant, I’d say.

Not that I like that.

But as long as the consumer knows everything they need to know to make an informed decision about the product they’re going to use, it’s all good.

Now, this decision also needs to be voluntary, so if there are some dark patterns or other carefully constructed circumstances bullying the consumer into accepting all the bs, then that would violate the GDPR.

But what is voluntary or not is hard to say, for many products and services. Can be argued either way, and you better believe it will be argued either way.

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Not everyone can do everything at once, and doing something is better than doing nothing at all.

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DivestOS can also deny internet access, for the people who don’t have a Pixel

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The lead dev sold simplemobiletools to Zippo Apps (or whatever they’re called), a company known for buying apps and stuffing them full of ads, trackers and bullying people into buying subscriptions.

That news came a bit out of the blue, and while I understand why he sold it, the fact that he sold it to such a fuckface company that goes against everything his apps stood for is… yeah

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I don’t think I can really fault any Android developer for wanting to use Firebase and be done with it, because it’s just so simple to implement, and generally easy to work with.

But some things should be more important than comfort, shouldn’t they.

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Signal does in fact distribute an APK that isn’t dependant on Play Services/FCM on their website. Uses a websocket, so not the most elegant way I guess, but oh well.

It’s rather hidden, which I think is disappointing. But it exists. Updates itself, too.

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In this year alone, I’ve had so many things happen that just scream we live in a simulation, it genuinely wouldn’t even surprise me if it was true.

Either way, nature is our one true god.

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Now that is a genre of photography I need to see more of

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With how much Adobe infects a system, leaving multiple different traces behind even when uninstalled, I think it’s fair to say that Photoshop itself is almost a virus

Genuinely, how can you get rid of all that? How do you even find everything?

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The most important part in malware protection is whoever sits in front of the screen. Systems like Android have so many safeguards in place, the only way to get a virus is the user forcing it through themselves, pretty much.

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Mate, you have go slow, ease into it

Next smartphone I buy, which one do you recommend?

Things that make me angry about my current smartphone Samsung Galaxy S21Ultra on a Verizon plan is the mandatory software updates in which they install WITHOUT MY PERMISSION stupid apps like Netflix and addictive gambling games and stacking block games and Candy crush. God knows what else they install without my permission. I...

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  • no bloatware

Does it come without GApps? Most people don’t need half of those

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Scandalous

Signal's new version notification keeps popping up

Hey just wondering if its a problem on my end but a self update notification indicating a newer version of signal keeps popping up. I already have the latest version of the apk, 6.40.4, installed from their website, but the notification does not go away. I click it and then it states the application has been updated but after a...

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Same for me, but so far I have no idea why it happens

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But… Endeavour though

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    And then in some languages, the word person is feminine, so you use she.

    Not confusing at all

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    It’s incredibly frustrating when someone at work can’t navigate an excel file or a spreadsheet.

    Oh, I know the feeling, be it in other areas.

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    Maybe if we tell them uBlock Origin is a condom for their browser, they’ll understand?

    What a sentence to type out

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    Fair enough, giving money to that corporation just feels very wrong to me. But I have to be fair here, the services Google offers are actually useful.

    Not like some other mega-brands that just dick around and do fuck all

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    If there are people in the middle lane and you blast past them at double their speed, that could be seen as unsafe

    First comes the Porsche, who then gets bullied off the left lane by a Lamborghini, who then gets bullied off the left lane by an Audi RS6.

    That’s Germany

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