GrapheneOS my beloved

And Apple aren't that much better. They make a lot of privacy claims, but are still pushing hard for their online services like iCloud, and their hardware is designed to hide what it's doing from the user. Apple is still collecting user data. They might be sharing less with third parties, but they are still collecting it.

We need to support Ubuntu Touch. It’s such a promising alternative and it would be a dream to have it at same level and app support as current major platforms.

Meta Is Recruiting Former Pentagon Officials As It Ramps Up Military Ambitions

Reading that headline is crazy, why would Meta have any military ambitions. And then in the first sentence of the text they mention AI. I guess they need to use AI for any possible application to show that they get value from their large investments.

...or installing Red Star OS. There are Linux distros with built-in spying, they just aren't very popular.

Unless you install Firefox, that is.

Also, MSTeams.

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Don't forget ChromeOS!

The mail (a web service), the calendar (a web service), YouTube (web videos), YouTube Music (web music), Google Maps (a web based mapping service)...

You get the picture.

Android spies on you when you're doing things locally on the device. But, the rest of these are web-based services.

I'd make that plural. Google spies through its OSs too.

Everyone who believes their big tech software doesnt spy as much as possible are naive fools

But its almost impossible to avoid anyway

So i can understand that a lot of people just dont care

Myself included, though i do use linux, its not for privacy reasons. I just like linux better thqn windows.

Work requires a mac, and github by microsoft. What you want me to do?

No they won't. Apple users are either tech illiterate or sycophantic. They won't realize that the "year in review" is actually just a showcase of how much info they have on you.

I will literally never verify my real life ID for some online service. I will cut out that service from my life before betraying my own privacy to such a degree. I will throw my computer out the window before ever doing this.

What the fuck is wrong with people?

on a totally unrelated note, been playing a lot of voxelibre in luanti lately

Surely this affects only some very new version rarely anyone plays, and not the good versions all the modpacks are built upon?

I would have assumed this would apply to Bedrock and not Java since Bedrock is the one which uses Xbox live, whereas Java can be run completely offline.

What would happen if I ran Minecraft Java on my Linux computer with my internet disconnected?

Yeah Apple is pretty transparent about it and what they use it for (allegedly) haven’t really seen anything saying Apple is using more than they claim/say.

Either way Linux is so much better.

linux to apple: you think yours don't?

That really loops back to Google more than a function of linux.

Just because it uses the Linux kernel doesn't mean it's real Linux. Google took everything that made Linux good - customisation, root access, privacy, freedom - out of Linux to make Android

That is the same kind of pedantry as claiming that ketchup is a smoothie because the tomato is a fruit.

Use Homing Pigeons. They won't expose your darkest secrets.

We all should. Even go a bit further and write things by hand!

As if physical mail hasn't been spied on for the last two centuries as well.