My dad uses one as a macro pad for his invoices and other documents/paper work

I don’t think I’ve ever owned a Seagate drive in the last 20 or so years. Every time I’ve been shopping for a spinning disk, there has been some ongoing controversy surrounding Seagate in one form or another that turned me off buying one.

Wait until they hear what data Instagram/Meta collects during use!

But they’re a US company so it’s ok.

Bragging that you keep a version of the app around that allows you to fly your drone in areas that puts other people’s lives in danger is not the gotcha moment you think it is.

Reminder to never believe a damn word that comes out of this man’s mouth. https://motherfrunker.ca/fsd/

Amount of people surprised by this:

Reminder #891,814 to stop using Chrome and Chromium browsers and to stop supporting Google’s web monopoly.

Grass is green, water is wet, the sky is blue, and privacy settings don’t do anything.

I’ve had to cave and use some services (for work reasons) that I’d swore I would never use. No matter how much we value privacy and look for alternative software/services when possible - we still have to eat and pay bills.

If you are in the same boat and you must use services like that, then my advice would be to keep it strictly business. Keep your personal details and personal social connections to a minimum unless where it would be otherwise beneficial for work purposes.

For the kind of work I have been doing I have not needed to hand over any psd files. Photoshop is(was) only a small step in my workflow and the main thing I get hired for is 3D modelling services. Regardless, I still work with NDA’d content and Adobe’s terms are invasive as hell.

Just cancelled my Adobe sub. Even if I was comfortable with how they use my data (and I am most assuredly fucking not) I’m also uncomfortable with them helping themselves to the NDA’d projects I do for clients. I trialed Affinity Photo and it meets 98% of my needs and is on sale 50% off right now. Bite my ass, Adobe.

Welp, there goes my morning. Now I have to spend a few hours unfucking everything.

Never trusting this app ever again.

This is disabled if you turn off telemetry in the settings, which users should already be doing anyway. I don’t see this as any worse than what they already do.

I wish I could make useless trash and be given unfathomable amounts of money by infinitely gullible investors.

In this day and age, a bunch of processor and camera specs does nothing for me. I want to see what they plan to do with the UI and OS as a whole. Will it just be a lazy Android skin or will they go the extra mile and make it look and feel like a Windows phone of old?

Potentially yes as at least the Bethesda NPC will say lore-accurate lines.

Or line.

For basic behaviour and pathfinding, yes. But aesthetics, outfits, dialogue, backgrounds, etc etc was all made by humans. The reason why NPC’s can feel so immersive and part of the worlds they exist in is because they’re made and written by the same people that made the rest of the game.

NPC’s with awkward AI-gen voicelines spouting hallucinated nonsense that has nothing to do with the game or the player’s actions is going to be an absolute dumpster fire.

The important part that you should know (and should already be using):

Remember, you can always opt out of sending any technical or usage data to Firefox. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to adjust your settings.

W11 is such a great example of how out-of-touch Microsoft’s management and shareholders are. Its market share is tiny compared to W10 and is actively decreasing and they think pulling stunts like this is going to be beneficial in some way. Like even if you follow the usual routine of enshittification, they’ve missed the entire part where they expand their userbase first before making things worse.

MS needs a leadership shakeup so badly.

A lot of lists for private alternative email services start and and with Proton, seemingly. Services like Posteo, Mailbox, Hushmail, Fastmail, etc are frequently overlooked. It’s a shame because many of these other services are great and Proton is one of the most expensive and not suitable for everyone. I’ve been with Posteo for years and I have nothing but praise for it.