Fun, sure, but not an experiment that would actually be meaningful.

The data from your phone’s microphone doesn’t magically appear in Google’s advertising servers. It would have to go through a lot of steps before it gets there, and one of the first steps is in your home (if you’re on WiFi). One can analyze the traffic/data that leaves their phone.

It’s good to be cautious, but worrying about your phone’s microphone is potentially like worrying about your windows while leaving your front door open.

Yet again, someone mistakes an anecdote for evidence. And evidence is also not the plural form of anecdote.

I’m sure we have people here who are tech-savvy enough to have actually examined the kinds of data that their phone is sharing.

If you have something like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, then yeah, those would be sending voice data back, and yeah, they could probably use it for advertising. But as far as I know, there is no evidence that phones are “always listening” and “always sending information back” when they’re idle.

I could see some accents not pronouncing the L. It may colour the vowel, but not be a distinct sound on its own.

I’m Canadian, and we use a mix of British and American spellings, mostly depending on how we feel at the time of writing.

This is how I use it. So one could mold mould if they were so inclined.

That would be funny if someone thought RAID 0 was a backup solution, ahaha

two 8 TB drives in RAID to back them up

Obligatory “RAID is not a backup”

Different meaning, though!

Mozilla FirefOS?

You could still make those words work together in that order, though.

All of the sudden stops came to an end after we passed granny on the highway!

Gotcha, thank you!

Thanks!

I’ve been pretty invested in my LaunchBox setup, and this seems pretty similar.

What are some things that GameVault does that LaunchBox doesn’t? Or features that GameVault does better than LaunchBox?

Hey, be fair…

It’s also got a texture that’s different from sugar!

I’d imagine that images of nude people in sexually suggestive positions are not safe for work in most jobs in most countries…

Do you really think this is a “mature manner”?

You gave your opinion in another thread, got some replies that were trying to engage in discussion with you, then you ignored them all and came over here to whine about how everyone else is immature and can’t handle discussions about those topics. Seems pretty ironic to me

She was gonna scan it from her phone, airdrop to her laptop, and then upload the files to Canvas.

When you know how to use the entire toolbox, but only if you can use the entire toolbox…in order.

Unless they’re interacting with a landline.

Which, to be fair, is still pretty complex.

Not everybody follows that same diagram.

On one end of things, many people don’t care at all if a game has Denuvo.

On the other end, many pirates won’t buy a game they pirated even if they liked playing it.

If Denuvo being cracked leads to a measurable and meaningful decrease in revenue, that suggests that enough people would be willing to buy the game even with Denuvo.

When people start speaking with their wallets and stop buying games with Denuvo DRM, then it’d make sense to not have Denuvo. If it’s making a company more money to include it, I can’t blame them for including it during their launch window.

I seldom buy games that were released within the last 12 weeks, so if they removed Denuvo DRM by then, I can’t really complain (at least on my own behalf).

I love GOG for its DRM-free games. But still, keeping Denuvo for 12 weeks feels like a great compromise.