That’s monitoring you and your closests’ other behavior, as well as monitoring then nudging you towards wanting certain things. The ad itself is the last nudge in that chain that tries to go “you wanted this, don’t you?” after all of the other thinking it’s making a case for your life being better with it.

What they should do is one of those replace-words add-ons making rightwingers talk positive about DEI or talk shit about anti-immigration, see how quick people above 60 nationally change their mind

My parents had some of the ancient ubuntu (or ubuntu based?) distros that they let me play with, I myself tried Manjaro in 2017 for a month (very scuffed back then), and then full Arch Linux since March or Apr 2021

Haven’t bothered switching since, but if I did, I’m lightly curious on the NixOS hype. Why yes, I just installed Arch Linux for the archbtw, but also it feels like it just works for me at this point (yknow, till the next fuckup akin to the grub2 fiasco)

Power Off to secure that things get updated and resetting float integers in case they would go haywire

Poweroff could use more write cycles on the SSD because it has to read everything at startup, but suspend has to keep supplying power to the RAM

for this, I would say SSD is more valuable personally, so if that was my only reason, I’d suspend to RAM every time

My computer’s generally doing stuff I have it set to do, so I don’t suspend to RAM

Laptop gets turned off when going outside, also encrypted

Fair

Sorry, I don’t mean to say it’s unnecessary in the event of a breach, you’re absolutely correct there, I was just spitballing on the idea of encryptions without self-destruct buttons in majority non I-am-highly-targeted-by-CIA scenarios, how vigilant you’d have to be. With house warrants for instance, I was like “well, as the likelihood of them going being able to decrypt increases you should be on the look-out for alternative methods or harder encryption yeah”

I was by no means saying this is an ‘after breach’ scenario. Modern solutions don’t save you retroactively, that wasn’t the point.

Well Mullvad used to have port-forwarding, either it was a pain to maintain or it was abused

Modern solutions for modern problems, ie, update as needed (and algorithms potentially invented)

Alternatively hide it under the floorboards, with a nail over it and a hammer nearby as needed

Yep, if they can control thought patterns, they can control what you do, and then they can control what you want

The end result being “well why wouldn’t I want ads that show me personalized ads? I’m likely to give more of a shit”, not knowing that you’re signing yourself up for potentially even limiting your nuances Surveillance Capitalism style

yeah they just work to get their own Shariah-Law

from June 20th

LETS GOOOOOOOO

Clearly he visited India today to discuss a Hindu Nationalist takeover of America