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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I’d rather use an older or open source OS without it
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
That’s the best answer. But you’re up against paid up lobbyists.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I’ve been eternally surprised at how non technical people work around problems. I mean I have a totally technology illiterate family member who worked out how to torrent films and watch them and install ublock and Firefox.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Pixel and GrapheneOS or something. Already considering it.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
You can refuse to use software that does it.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
There’s no point. The only way you can fix this is to pretty heavily market the situation and publicise and shame the lobbyist scum pushing this. And their associated ties.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
The trick here is to make it impossible to do so. Don’t put your shit in the cloud and use proper E2E secure messaging. For me the entire idea of the cloud is dead due to exposure like this.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I'm monitoring other discussions about this elsewhere. Apple support cannot help at the moment. They are "aware of the issue". Sorry but I don't want there to be an issue full stop.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
You'd be surprised at how often I do illegal stuff.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
That is a possibility but it's a stupid verification method as not everyone has credit cards. It's just cheap for the vendor. Unfucking looks like a "look what the UK government policy is causing" PR disaster and a rollb
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
You do realise I am free to modify it or pick a distribution so that isn't the case too?
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I agree with this as well. The only things I really need on my "smartphone" are a browser, mail client (offline that does IMAP), organic maps, whatsapp and obviously a phone. I can do everything else some other way without too m
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
We just got fucked by this today. My 22 year old daughter doesn't have a driving license or a credit card but does have a passport and it didn't work. She's now got a kids phone. I haven't tried the 20 year old yet who i
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I think you went off the rails a bit there. Also hyper focused on a small part of the comment rather than the general issue which is somewhat unfair. The point was simply things which are costly to society should be taxed. I am not comparin
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Way to cherry pick citations. Have you considered writing a meta analysis for a journal and fail to disclose your interests and funding? That'd really top it off. I can do the same if I want the other way. But it's not worth my ti
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
HN is in denial about a lot of stuff. The tech bubble exists somewhere else to most people's reality. A lot of my youngest's peers are pretty illiterate still at 13. They have trouble with more than a few minutes of concentration.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I don't disagree. Society should reinforce what is good for it. But it should have reinforced parenting rather than introduce draconian controls on everything. Because they always end up creating more problems. On top of that, while th
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
This is paranoid bullshit. Firstly the incumbent legislation is actually being rolled back at the moment by Mahmood. The FB posts are all inciting violence against others which should not be protected speech. As for the jury trials, have yo
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Everyone likes to say the UK is a police state. It’s a bit of a meme. I mean we are literally going through legal reform at the moment to make it less of one while people with a masked presidential police force scream at us for being a poli
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
This doesn’t really take the computer away. It takes walled addictive social media apps away. We just didn’t have those back in the day.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Can we just agree we just don’t want Meta?
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I don’t think that at all. I just make sure they get to experience the rest of the world first. Literature, art, music, games, conversation, meeting people in real life, jumping on a plane and going places and seeing things. There’s a lot t
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I’ve got three kids, albeit two somewhat older. It’s not a panopticon prison. There’s trust. The social media thing just isn’t a big thing for them. They all use WhatsApp and that’s about it. I mean one has instagram and that’s marketing fo
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
I already do this with my <16. It’s called parenting. They can use their computer however. That’s fine. It’s the engagement based social media and constant comms via messaging that’s the issue. I find that she doesn’t actually use it all
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Interesting times ahead. Hopefully less interesting than current times. I try to look on the bright side. There’s a sudden interest in energy and supply chain sovereignty. Which is never a bad thing.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Yep. The Mimms books are actually terrible. Had loads of problems getting stuff working out of them in the 80s. Assumed it was me. So roll on a few years and our linear circuits lecturer at uni launched into a 30 minute diatribe about how u
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Ours was a private archive of public content. There was a long discussion of the intelligence that could be gathered or information manipulated if it was public
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Yeah that. I don’t put any effort in now. Still get paid the same. Now have more time for better stuff.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
Yeah sorry but as an end user I’d rather have an actual app than some PWA thanks. Keep going Apple.
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by dgxyz 7mo ago
We just built layers of shit over the ones we have.

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