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“All the gatekeepers are trying to hold on as long as possible to the status quo and make the new world unattractive”

Looks aight but I consider it overkill for my needs. I have my own system which is just creating a note titled ‘YY-MM-DD Desc/Model’ when I purchase something and adding compressed images & scans of the label/serial, sometimes packaging, user guide, etc.

I then just print a dymo label for the product, components, cables, and spare parts using the note title so I can search the date and pull it up if I need. Makes dealing with a mountain of cables and power adapters much easier. I never pull something out of storage and go “what the fuck is this” anymore.

Testing and tagging USB-C cables is especially helpful, too. They usually have no indication of what speed or power they can handle.

So? That doesn’t absolve any of the former decision makers of their crimes. This is the kind of mentality that both enables and facilitates corporate criminals and corruption.

If you purchase a stolen car you don’t get to keep it if the crime is uncovered or the real owners are found. When you purchase a company you purchase its liabilities. If those liabilities/crimes were not disclosed, then you have a case for rescinding the purchase and prosecuting the former company/owners/investors for additional damages.

There are also a lot of people, already in the wealthiest upper percentiles, who would implement big brother just to be slightly wealthier.

The corporation made TENS of millions from lying to customers, stealing their data, then selling it — they were fined $18 million… This is better than nothing, but still complete dogshit.

Would you consider fining a car thief a fraction of the value of the car they stole justice? No! Because that would be a sick fucking joke!

The corporation should be fined 10x the revenue of the crime, and the leadership who signed off on this should be criminally prosecuted, personally fined a percentage of their wealth, and imprisoned.

Corporate criminals should be treated like actual criminals.

Yeah… I’m like 99% positive Reddit wisened up to scrubbing and have been preserving backups for years, essentially rendering all forms of update/deletion useless.

All they’d have to do is have a separate “hidden” db that mirrors production, with separate business rules to ignore all non-mod updates/deletions beyond 12 or 24 hours.

The best you can do now is stop giving them content.

Don’t worry. A massive fire will destroy entire towns, and they’ll probably blame the libs.

The enemy of privacy and civil liberties is “very enduring” because the enemy is surveillance capitalism — oligarchs/corporations who own our politicians and have virtually-limitless funding.

Encrypt everything pre-upload and you won’t have to care about the security of individual cloud providers ever again.

What’s the upload speed from a regular sftp client to the same destination?

Ditto for audio in general. I notice wild differences between encodings in dialogue clarity and volume. If this were standard we could all mix and match whatever audio is best for our equipment.

There’s only default and “critical”. The rest of the control a user has is around config (previews on lock screen) and timing. Each app is responsible for their notification toggles and how they use them.

Yeah, there should be fine grained options (e.g. “marketing”) in the settings, or at the very least an opt-out toggle, where use of the wrong channel is against TOS and results in delisting from the app store.

Finer grained control is needed regardless — enabling apps and users to control critical and regular notifications based on each individual use case.

There should also be a notification log on the device, that shows you all associated information — many apps will offer something via notification that is not available to you, which is considered false advertising and is illegal in my country. This should also breach TOS. There are also many errors where the notification links to nowhere. Once you click the notification, it’s gone forever, which is a horrifically bad design decision.

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Fucking lol. Your logic is undeniable!

Yeah, let’s ignore the entire history of labor, environmental, safety, and product regulations, and believe everything is the way it is because of our dogmatic free market feefees.

Sideloading is explicitly about enabling the user to install multimedia and apps that are not approved by the manufacturer or OS vendor, so this is probably illegal (depends on how the law’s been written) and I expect Apple to be taken to court over it in the very near future.

You need to specifically set it up to work offline. It’s not out of the box. Either the setup guide you followed included that step, or you went out of your way to enable it, and forgot about it. It’s been that way for 5+ years, at the very least.

Fourthteenth percent of people know that!!

https://archivebox.io/ would likely be best, but I use singlefile or screenshots for important copies.