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it is easy to circumvent the tracking and spying that happens

The fact that using a cell phone for its intended purpose allows carriers (and by extension, the entities that make your phone) to precisely track wherever you are by cell triangulation – no GPS, no geolocation, no app spying, nothing, all in hardware – means that it’s impossible unless you just keep your phone in a Faraday cage and never actually use it.

Ok kid.

Goes both ways, doesn’t it? Except my stance makes more sense because there are actual, undeniable issues with mobile devices and thay are demonstrably inferior devices in every single way. The sooner we understand this, the sooner we can stop carrying around a tracking device that monitors every single thing that you do.

Mobile is garbage. It is a barely controllable platform with horrible UI, horrible ways of doing things, touchscreen that is incredibly irritating to use, etc. I cannot understand how we, as a society, decided this would be our future. I get the idea of basic communication anywhere you go but internet? You can’t wait until you get home to do internet? You can’t download data and information to a more simple and usable device like we had back in the Palm Pilot days that came standard with a stylus and a sane way to enter data instead of jabbing at tiny squares with our fingertips? No idea how people actually use mobile devices as their primary computing device now. I have to have a real PC to do anything with and my only reason I have a smartphone is for talk/text (no mobile internet) and doing similar things to what I used a Palm Pilot back in the day for, offline data to have on the go for whatever purpose I need it for.

We need to go back.

Hell, the current Plasma and its compositor are far more stable in Wayland than Gnome. It amazes me that Wayland can actually be usable when using a desktop that is stable.

But Krita is more of a digital painting software and less an image editor like Gimp is. Sure, both can to a certain extent do the other, but Krita’s focus and Gimp’s focus are very different and using one for the other isn’t the most effective.

Gimp is awesome and people just need to use it with the understanding that it isn’t Photoshop and it does things different ways.

Religion is harmful to people and atheism isn’t. Do these people complain when someone shuts down a speaker who advocates having sex with young children? No? Then shut the hell up and let us kill religion like it should have been centuries ago.

I’m sure they’re all fine shows but I just can’t bring myself to care about television any more. Haven’t watched a new movie in who knows how many years, too.

Getting old and indifferent is a bitch.

You are always the product when you do not own physical or digital non-DRMed copies of your media.

If you can’t reliably and repeatedly play your music in the middle of nowhere 50 miles away from any internet signal, you are the product. Download MP3s and take your music back.

And people on the lemmy.world instance wonder why we fight for the right to talk about piracy.

Update to what? Nintendo can release any game it wants and release it on one of the most popular consoles ever, and they want to get rid of this? They want to make a new console? Updating technology made sense back in the old days when things were moving quickly, but now? What are you going to do, make everything look slightly better?

Get over it. Technology isn’t going to advance that much more. Put a holding pattern on your hardware and ride it out for years to come. Just because Sony and Microsoft want to throw out yet another version of their barely updated hardware console and PC users decide that yet another overpriced, overpowered, overheating card is absolutely necessary doesn’t mean it makes any sense. Nintendo has the opportunity to grow a brand here and gain trust by allowing their hardware to become a standard. Lower its price. Retool its design. The portable Switch thing was a good idea. Just don’t change your actual system and allow games to be released for a single system for a good long while for once in console history.

All they’re doing now is getting ready to bring out another fucking WiiU that no one cares about after the phenomenal success of the Wii.

This is why PC is always superior. Not because of graphics. Because there is a consistency, and flexibility. People always believe that PC gaming is better because “oh, PC gamers buy $3000 PCs and play games on ultramegasuperhigh resolution”. Bullshit. It’s because we can play all the PC games, ever, and have the flexibility to play exactly what we want and not be forced into playing only what a company allows us to play.

Nintendo should stick with the Switch, or push moving to PC gaming. Enough of this constant pointless console treadmill updating.