Most people, LGBT or otherwise, don’t really pay attention to who owns the data and how it is processed. It’s all in the ToS, and they just click agree. The “they” doesn’t need to be the on using it to be dangerous. In fact, I’d say it is more dangerous to have someone who is not malicious, but is uninformed, to be your exposure to the corporate backend that is actively monitoring your group.
Because they are after all the LGBT, nobody is safe, and the companies running these systems are building the profiles that will be used when they move on to the next step of christian nationalist agression.
Part of the point is there often isn’t any misbehaving, prior to ending up there, they make money off having “problem” kids and they manufacture problems to increase revenue.
We’re a business to them and, since they conveniently do not view us as people, some damage to th product is acceptable as long as it does not affect the bottom line.
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As someone who grew up in these places “Extreme behavioral issues” generally means they’re putting you on so many drugs you can’t think straight and if you say no they lock you in a closet and beat you until you take the pill, or hold you down and give you a shot if they have an injectable version.
Physical and psychological abuse is constasnt and normalized, and sexual abuse is common and covered up, or the victims are blamed for it.
They get paid more if your “level” is high, so they make sure you are always a problem,and woe be unto the poor souls who find themselves there if they have a psychiatrist “on staff” because they will be getting those sweet kickbacks on forcing unnecessary and even harmful drugs on kids. And if they refuse to take them? Back in the closet!
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It’s a global issue, scum rises to teh top, and the same ones are everywhere.
Yeah, there are a lot of issues, but no Epstein.
Heck, Iran is more progressive than MAGA FFS.
Pakistan executes rapists, we elect them.
Valve lets them add DRM after launch, you buy a game and play it for months or even years and then BAM! you have online DRM or anti-tamper killing mods or a flippin rootkit for crappy cross platform multiplayer that never works, or adding a damn third party launcher along with the Ubislop levels of derp and Bamco/ATLUS inability to eveer patch anything that’s actually wrong but “fix” cracked DRM instantly…
Until I can count on Steam to let me keep what I flippin’ paid for they are beyond sus, and my (Crap, 1337, what a game count.) “Game Industry Guardian” becomes a “Meh, nah, I’ll use your forums to ask the dev if they plan a GOG release and maybe redeem some Humble keys if they’re cheap enough to consider it a demo for a GOG purchase later.”
Ah, I tend to soo all the configuring myself, half my stuff on the tablet I compiled from source.
Bazzite looked like good project, not for me as I loathe immutable distros, but I did run it via emulation and found the setup to be very straightforward and consoley. Turned me off, completely, but their attempt to simplify things and even using an immutable so it’s a lot harder to irrevocably break anything was a step in the right direction for making things “simple” for the people I can;t get to verify their chat fingerprint in Gajim.
Bazzite has an image specifically for it, and I’m running stock Debian Trixie on my ROG Flow tablet with no issues, don;t own the Ally X yet but I’m definitely looking it it over the Ally or any other as I want to run my own install not a Valve image and the Ally X uses a normal 2280 M.2 rather than the 2230 (which maxes at 2TB) my current ROG Flow or the Steam Deck does.
The ATM gives $50s, so I use those, but I prefer $20s as they are taken anywhere.
I’ve had a $45 bill and them tell me they can’t take a fifty.
ASUS ROG Ally X, put Linux on it, and you get by all the horrible Windows bloat that makes it crap. It’s great hardware, just the “X-Box” branding and Microslop OS that’s a problem.
And the second is far worse.