Yep.

Just cause it doesnt affect you, doesnt mean it wont eventually have an effect on you.

Lots of people shrugging their shoulders and going “Why should I care about spying? I’ve got nothing to hide” are exactly why we are where we are right now.

No, with a VPN the only thing your ISP sees is you connecting to a VPN server IP.

But browser finger printing, on the other hand, can identify you to every website you visit, due to info your browser hands over to every website… Such as OS version, Resolution, installed Plugins, browser settings, geolocation info, etc…which is often unique enough to identify you out of the whole of the internet.

Ironically, locking your browser down with more security features/settings/plugins often makes you more identifiable. Cause capitalism is god damned sure they are gonna track you and monetize the hell out of your information, whether its via your name, your user name, or just your digital fingerprint.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

Yeah, I know I’m not the target demographic.

That doesnt mean I dont think its an interesting piece of tech, and I would like one as a toy/curiousity… but i’d only get one if I can get it used/second hand and dirt cheap (and probably broken, so i can drive the price lower and fix it myself)

If that was the reason and logic then every store would do that.

They don’t.

Everyone on earth but this one stupid ass gas station just does the 1 dollar precharge.

If that was true the steam deck would have already done it.

Both of you guys are missing the point.

He wasnt charged 150 bucks for gas.

The gas station is using a 150 dollar pre-charge to make sure the card is good. most places only do a 1 dollar pre-charge.

150 is stupid.

Which infuriates me as a LotR fan.

and also makes me side eye Chris Tolkien hard, cause he is normally very aggressive in protecting the intellectual property…

If you have to create a wikipedia alternative to stop being fact checked, then maybe you are just fuckin wrong.

Billionaires: “No, No… I can’t be wrong. I’m Rich! I’ll create a microcosm of information that warps reality to make sure I’m right!”

Conservapedia: Wait…thats what I was for… what about me?!

been playing on linux for many many years.

never once have I been stopped by kernal level anticheat.

Weird, its almost as if good games don’t use invasive spyware rootkits.

bigots crying about shit is such fucking bullshit, because you know their porn search history is filled with everything they publicly seethe and hate

Shrug, I dont know man… personally, last time I had to dig into regedit was on…i think win98? maybe xp? and that was under guidance of the tech support I was on the phone with… the why I long since forgot, I just remember them telling me it was okay and as long as I listened nothing would get broken (and that their thing would be unbroken)

And if the average idiot searches for a solution to the problem, and the solution says to run X command… the average idiot is gonna trust it and run it, and assume anything that comes up is supposed to happen.

He was approaching linux as an average idiot, like me, would.

and that is absolutely how it would have gone, and probably did go, for lots of people before it got caught on a camera by a big youtuber… especially since, iirc, the issue was known to Pop OS for a while before hand.

For like my first 4 years in linux, all the support I could find basically boiled down to “if X doesnt work, paste this command and run it”. So yes, I can totally see an average idiot doing exactly what happened in the video… and I’d wager it happened quite a few times to quite a few people, before the this video made it famous and made Pop finally get off their ass to fix it.

I don’t particularly make secret of my dislike for Linus, but I feel like the criticism on this particular topic is unfair. Shit like this does happen with new users with no IT/Sys Admin linux knowledge, And its most likely going to happen more frequently as more non-knowledgable new users come into linux and stumble into things weird niche situations and stuff… More monkeys smashing keys means more weird issues being found, afterall.

There was more that was going on with LTT than harassment.

Like receiving a loaned prototype that was meant for X card, using it on Y card, saying it was crap cause it didnt fit and didnt work, then selling it at auction… Then coming out and saying he had been in contact with teh company to make amends and they have accepted it, only for the company to immediately torpedo by stating they’ve heard nothing from him.

I’d wager things were not going well behind the scenes, either, with the mass exodus of major talent they had over the past year or so, either. Sure people drift in and out of jobs, but for you to have most of your big names all leave in a relatively small window… That hints at behind the scenes shit maybe not being so bueno.

And theres also the “just trust me bro” warranty on the stupid laptop bag, and him basically going on wan show acting offended and shittalking people who were calling him out for a long history of justifiable criticism against shitty warranties, only to pull the same… but hes gods special angel, so obviously its different with him and how dare you question his glory.

All in all, Linus just strikes as an insufferable twat… and sadly it doesnt seem to be fame going to his head either, because he’s been an insufferable twat on Camera since the goddamn beginning of LTT (I never saw his NCIX videos, but I would assume he was much better behaved on them, since he was representing someone elses brand and ran the risk of firing if he acted a twat), Especially when it comes to any valid criticism towards him, or his channel, or methodology.

I know all about EA’s sellout.

Probably use it to pay off debts so my monthly stability is massively increased.

the problem is that the overwhelming majority of gamers are short sighted little gremlins who need constant access to new shiny to feel validated.

Sure, they come on the internet to yell and scream about the horrid injustice of it all, but the second the vile evil company that they’ll never again support releases their next game… they are at gamestop preordering the 800 dollar super legendary edition.

There are people who actually do follow through, I am one of them… There are several companies on my shit list that I will never buy from again, and in over a decade have not bought from them. . . but people that actually follow through on it are too rare to make a difference.

What game is this? so I know what company to never buy from again.

was such a good operating system.

Didnt need regular reformats to keep it stable/keep performance. was easy to use. stayed out of the way. you never had to even think about the OS cause it was just so transparent and invisible to everything you had to/wanted to do.

“Why remember the past, Just forget it and all the problems it had. They surely cant happen again, especially if we just ignore that they happened in the first place!”

Its no wonder the world is falling apart with people holding onto logic like this.