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"You need to try Linux" (lemmy.ml)

submitted 20 hours ago by digital_alchemist@discuss.tchncs.de to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there's a good argument the author's concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

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[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 46 minutes ago) (3 children)

Yep... Snowden, Chelsea* Manning, Assange and an older whistleblower who died recently but I forgot his name... They also forgot what Cambridge Analytica was about. They just need to throw some bread and games at us and we go one living as nothing ever happend.

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Chelsea Manning

Fuck is wrong with you

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 0 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 40 minutes ago)

Sorry I got It wrong on purpose... Would you ever accept to change your sex to get out of jail? I mean... Dafuck is wrong in our system ?!

But hang on a minute... THAT'S NOT an anti LGBTQ what ever thing I don't care what you like or your sexual orientation... I just don't give a fuck !

However, they must have laughed their asses off when he/she was proposed this get out of jail card...

What ever !

[–] queermunist@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

Chelsea* Manning

But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don't think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we've handed over to our tech overlords.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 0 points 32 minutes ago

Yeah, sorry it seems I offende the LGBTQ community by typing it wrong... What ever ! As I said above, I really don't care what you like or your sexual orientation.

However, I find it quite profound that this get out of jail card is used as good faith while it was just another piece of their game.... People who think it was a personal choice are either blinded by the journalistic manipulation or LGBTQ partisans (again nothing against any community, gay, lesbian,queer,straight,hetero what ever !).

We are fooled again and again and again by the same lies over and over again... 🤔😮‍💨

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They just need to throw some bread and games at us and we go one living as nothing ever happend.

I mean, there's not a whole lot of alternative. It seems like the only two "valid" avenues of resistance are retreating from society into a hermetically sealed bubble and starting a podcast.

[–] N0x0n@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 minutes ago* (last edited 6 minutes ago)

Haha, yeah It seems so...

Another option and a more long term solution would be to go back to the roots and relearn the basics of living !

How to grow a garden, How to hunt, How to build a small wooden house, how to make fire and then rebuild the technology but only the needed ones.

If we grew things and dug together the rare ores to make solar panels together, build small wind turbines, waterwheels as a community hands by hands... We would probably profit more and enjoy ourselves way more than ever...

Regardless we prefer being held hostage by our own limitations and technology constraints... Not blaming anyone here except myself, It's just a sad though we could all live happy in a more green state without this mass nonsense technology...

But hey... What's better than living for ourselves and hard earned money? Huh? Our day to day routine on Netflix, YouTube, Lemmy, twitter Facebook... 7-16 day to day job we all hate thinking we are going to enjoy life when we are old and retired? Emotionally dead gifts bought on Amazon, eBay, temu....

Without saying... Life sucks ! And If you enjoy this kind of life, What can I say... :/ I either envy you for being a brainless sheep or hate you like I hate myself for not burning down this system all together !

Pick your poison !

/Rant off