Securing user data is easy enough if you do not collect it to begin with.

Bingo.

As if de-anonymizing hasn’t been demonstrated, repeatedly.

Hahahaha, you’re funny.

Because people suddenly become altruistic, and won’t try to fuck over the next person?

UBI won’t fix human nature.

I’ve always said this about software. Let me license a specific version, with free minor updates until the next major release.

If the new version has something I need/want, I may be willing to buy it again.

I use lots of old software, on my PC and my phone. It works, why do I need the new version? And some, the new version sucks so bad I refuse to upgrade (FolderSync on Android, for example).

Says who?

Plenty of sites out there just run by people who want to run them, no fee, no ads.

It’s people who want to capitalize on having a website that have this problem.

And let’s be clear, it’s their problem. Not mine. If they can’t turn a profit with/without ads, that’s not my concern, that’s theirs. But they setup these web sites/services with the intention of making money through ads and surveillance, so let’s not go around acting like these orgs just won’t make it without us (there are exceptions, say archive.org, and guess what, people donate to them because they believe in the cause).

The problem is a bunch of people figured out the web was a brilliant way to data mine for profit. I actually had this discussion with a friend circa 1993. If we could see it then, imagine how many other people already had plans.

No ads?

What’s making it personal?

Stop being a sophist, you’ll have more meaningful conversations.

So 31% uses ad blocking.

That’s about 1/3. Pretty impressive actually.

Surveillance advertisement was already around.

Social Media platforms simply capitalized on it.

And users sucked it up for “convenience”.

Have you solved the issues Syncthing has with Android? Seems Android v9 and later networking blocks the LAN access for finding local relays. Even manually configuring relay IPs in Syncthing doesn’t resolve the issue.

Wish I could upvote more than once.

Well put.

My solution.

Their search results have been shit for about 10 years.

It’s not broken, for google. It does exactly what they want, which is to help them gather data and manipulate people.

At work, we discussed this as a future issue in about 2000, when we saw it gaining major search share.

Big chats are kinda a scam anyway, they should be forums lol

That’s the quote of the day right there.

Yea, paypal is bad news all around

I guess most people don’t know most banks have electronic funds transfer, or virtual credit cards, etc.

DIY what, exactly?

To get your…battery replaced, and they want to charge you for a new engine.

If it were me, I’d fix it the lazy man’s way - clean out the slot and the glass very well. I’d then dry it out with rubbing alcohol and paper towels.

Then I’d squirt some Goop adhesive in there, and push it back in place (also consider clear silicone). I like Goop because it sticks to almost everything, cures quickly, holds incredibly well, yet is easy to cleanup (or remove when you need to).

You want enough adhesive in there so just a little oozes out, to ensure it’s made good contact.

You buy as much space as you’ll need in the next few years and make a plan for proper duplication/backup, such as 3-2-1 Backups.

Right? It’s a frigging battery.

Surely we can get a group of battery techs and mechanical engineers together to come up with a solution.

Hell, I’ve been bastardizing the “wrong” batteries into devices since the mid-70’s, while today I’m usually replacing crappy built-in batteries with 18650’s. And I’m no EE, just have a little skill and vision.

Surely the battery spec on this is pretty clear, and it’s an off-the-shelf tech (not some odd chemistry devised by the company). Not that it really matters - a replacement merely needs to fit in the space, and match voltage and current requirements.

Your family isn’t dumber than average.

Uu tech folks tend to forget/overlook that most people are clueless as to how mobile devices work. I have IT friends who know practically nothing about the Android file system, or how apps store (but don’t sync) data, for example. And these are people designing/implementing/supporting complex systems.

Most people can’t be bothered if there’s more than one or two steps. I can’t walk my “70 year old uncle” through configuring an app on his phone, over the phone. The stuff he says he sees make no sense at all. I’m like “no, that’s not what you should see, what did you click on”?.