Ah, you got me on the nostrils. Alright…

My point was that the discussion is silly/ absurd/ meaningless. Yet here I am… Caught in it.

So… Ears. Those have a membrane (so the air pressure inside transmits the sound to small bones)… I was considering that given a (healthy) membrane the hole is just a cavity. Bt then, the other side does have air. No idea how does it go in and out. But scuba or free divers do compensate the pressure on the other side of the membrane when descending… So the air in there goes in and out of the body in seconds. Might be connected to… Nostrils? Haha. My best guesstimate.

Fuck this game xD

Urethra doesn’t go anywhere either except for bladder, then nephrons (kidneys)…

Something similar applies to ears, right? And nose… But,

Also, what about the pores in my skin? :O

it could also be because I mentioned oracle :P

Come back! You dirty liar!!

Haha. This thread was priceless. I thought you were about to recommend playing 4k games connecting the deck to a TV… No idea if it’s posible, it should… Anyway…

So much words in this thread… Head over bazzite.gg and get f*ing started! You will love it!!

You do you, of course. But, I think that combining the approach of immutable distros to either case would be a great way to add some security. Even if nothing is ever 100% safe, this would be very robust. Or, even without an immutable distro you can do Qubes or just any sandboxing (e.g. bubblewrap) to open documents and files.

In any case, being paranoid certainly is an elegant sport. Perhaps even more than golfing (:

In my case it doesnt appear in the App drawer but when I opened assistant it offered me switching to Gemini, which I did. Then within it, went to Apps to disable integrations like WhatsApp which by default was ON. Same with SMS and others.

Or if you prefer GUI on device apps, Shizuku and then use Cantata

Try Pangolin instead of cloudfare, though it requires a VPS (e.g. oracle free tier, or pay €1/month to ionos)

As for actual kernel anticheat software siphoning out data, again, it’s something that we should not immediatly dismiss… The lack of evidence is not entirely on either side of this sudden ‘you vs. me’

Acxiom does sell a package of “Gaming” data. Probably coming from mobile phones for the most part, since that’s where most Studios are more aggressive (even towards children, see Tilting Point Media LLC settlement last year)

Again, knowing which Studios are selling data (identifiable or not) is impossible if no Court interferes.

I was only trying to make the point that it is feasible… That’s why I referred you to recall that “capitalism bad yadda yadda…”

a binary and a kernel module are not the same. And I was talking about business practices that are known. But nevermind, that was before I understood you are just trolling. Now I’ll simply wish you a wonderful reddit experience.

Data brokers do exist… Who they buy from is the only privacy they respect. You know, capitalism.

I hear thee.

Just an update, I learnt that GrapheneOS developers are ‘aggressive’ towards other FLOSS projects (following comments on other thread, but you can searx grepheneos+controversy and see for yourselves).

So now, I might just prefer an FP6.

I was trained on Arch, btw.

I love this resource, https://thebullshitmachines.com/ (i.e. see lesson 1)…

In a series of five- to ten-minute lessons, we will explain what these machines are, how they work, and how to thrive in a world where they are everywhere.

You will learn when these systems can save you a lot of time and effort. You will learn when they are likely to steer you wrong. And you will discover how to see through the hype to tell the difference. …

Also, Anthropic (ironically) has some nice paper(s) about the limits of “reasoning” in AI.

Only the failed attempts could be a Denial Of Service and throw you out. So, at least add an ever increasing delay to those. Fail2ban is important.

the reason: support for developers. You can install it yourself to save that amount.

There’s a deGoogled version too!!

I would prefer GrapheneOS (If I can live with the irony of getting a Pixel phone just to deGoogle it…). Sandboxing there is way better. But you lose the Repairability… Gotta check and compare the new EU metrics too.

They are just two different devices.

Like it or not, there are puscontrollers and joydicks in the world. You can use your hands or…