abfarid

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[–] abfarid@startrek.website 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Here's an anecdote. Recently, I got a 14yo (I believe) MSI MS-AC73 AIO (i3-2120, 4GB DDR3, 120GB SSD), mostly to use as a 1080p display, but it had a free PC inside as a bonus. For shits and giggles I started installing different OSes on it. First was XP. finding drivers was a pain but doable, since the machine is old af. But no matter what I did, Intel GPU control panel didn't want to center 3:4 games properly.

Since it wasn't working so well, I decided to go the opposite side of the spectrum and install W11, to see how horrible it would be. After many hours of convincing W11 to install on this machine (which is surprisingly not Copilot+ compliant), I finally got it to boot with a local account, with all devices recognized (including the touch screen). MFW when it runs pretty decently all things considered. I went ahead and removed all the extra crap using CTT Debloater. Played a couple retro PC games, installed FF and watched some YT, which manages to run at 1080p without dropped frames.

Now, of course, I decided to dualboot Linux, cause duh. Picked the latest Manjaro (KDE), hoping it will handle games better in case I try anything (might be an uneducated choice). Install is much easier, of course, but everything also works out of the box. My disappointment when same FF massively drops frames on YT. Touch controls technically work, but it doesn't show the touch locations and other minor issues.

In the end, I mostly use the neutered W11 (too lazy to downgrade to W10), cause it plays videos much better and W95-98 games. But if somebody can tell me how to fix Linux video playback issues, that would be great, as I want to make it my Linux daily driver.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago

Not demure. Not mindful.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 8 points 2 months ago

Lucky. Can't drink holy water cause it gives me a burning sensation. No idea why.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, just doing that would not only solve certain issues, it would remove some unnecessary complexity from English. In most (maybe all?) Turkic languages we don't have gendered pronouns, just one for "they" and nothing disastrous has happened yet.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 9 points 2 months ago

The polite way is to write "yes, please".

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Stop blaming vaccines! It's clearly caused by insufficient prayer!

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 40 points 2 months ago

Is this really satire if it's indistinguishable from regular news?

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Carry on, my wayward son.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago

To be fair, it's been 14 years. Time spares no one.

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Is this a roast? Am I being roasted? But it's okay, I give my consent. And that makes me (my meat) vegan 😌

[–] abfarid@startrek.website 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Hey, I saw that you added more content to the comment that I responded to, that wasn't there when I was composing my response. And seeing that content, I think I understand where the confusion is coming from.

If that screenshot is yours and you think those are the permissions, I don't think that's the case. That looks like a screenshot from an app store where it just lists what data the app might be using and not the permission system. It's just a list of categories of data that may or may not be collected if you use the app, which must be disclosed by the developer. You can't agree or disagree to those things from the OS side, because that's all that happens on the developer's side. In case of FB, you might be able to opt out of those things in their settings, but I wouldn't bet on it, cause that's their bread and butter.

For these things it doesn't matter if you, for example, gave them direct access to the mic or uploaded the audio file, they will process the audio file and gather as much useful information as they can.

In fact, if you don't give it any hardware permissions, they will still be able to gather some information, for instance from the Personal Info category (email address, sexual orientation, and home address, etc.) because you enter that info on registration or they infer it from your usage. The OS can't do anything about that. As long as you use the app and interact with it you give them information, what you clicked, which posts you liked, what you commented and so on.

When it comes to OS, you can individually (separately) give permission for mic, camera, location data, file storage, contacts info, etc. Most of the things listed in the "Data collected" panel doesn't even come from your phone hardware.

Let me know if I have now understood you correctly.

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