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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Can we just not live in a fucking dystopian world ?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Has r/aboringdystopia made the move to federation?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"WONT SOMEONE STOP THIS DYSTOPIAN NIGHTMARE OF BEING ABLE TO SIGN UP FOR A BETA THAT IS ACTUALLY A BETA AND REQUIRES ACTUAL DATA COLLECTION (THAT I CAN ACTUALLY OPT OUT OF IF I DONT WANT TO PARTICIPATE) TO ACTUAL DO ITS ACTUAL BETA JOB OF IMPROVING THE SOFTWARE?! SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!11one!1"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah yes, it will stay a Beta for ever and data collected will always be only for improvement. This is 100% sure, tech history has always been this way. There is no possible way to turn this otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"I'm just gonna ignore the fact that I can opt out with a single click, and continue to be a dick about it, because admitting I'm wrong is not something I am willing to ever consider"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You don’t get what I’m saying at all.

[–] DrinkBoba -2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Thing is, there are alternatives but people settle for cheap and convenient. Lots of people hate Apple because of some odd contrarian marketing reason. Apple doesn’t do this. Linux is another option. Both are hugely better for regular people than Windows.

[–] harsh3466 45 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Let’s be fair. Apple doesn’t do this quite so blatantly and egregiously, but they do it. They collect plenty of telemetry, and it’s getting harder to opt-out of/block it with their own chipsets.

Edit: I say this as an Apple user.

[–] something_random_tho 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mac even had special rules so firewalls (including Little Snitch) couldn’t block access to Apple’s own data collection servers.

[–] harsh3466 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. That’s some real bullshit. As soon as I can get functional Linux on my M1 Mac mini, I plan to.

[–] nomadjoanne 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes. A lot of Linux folks hate Apple because they are every bit slimey as Windows but hide behind a veneer of respectability due to higher-end nature of the market they target. So a bunch of yuppies shill for them.

I have an American cousin who refuses to contact me on either WhatsApp, Signal, or Telegram (I gave him three fucking' options) because "I only trust Apple with my contacts list "

Ok, well I'm not spending a euro-per SMS, so we won't casually chat from time to time. Goodbye.

I might be a bit jaded.

[–] DoakSteezy 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bunch of people I know (as an American) use Signal and Telegram along with iMessage. Your cousin sounds like a pretentious dickhead

[–] nomadjoanne 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bingo! He's a New-York-based cinematographer. You hit the nail on the head. 😂

[–] DoakSteezy 3 points 1 year ago

Haha, the duality of the NYer. I’m also a NYer but upstate.

[–] harsh3466 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. Apple is super slimy. They just hide it better. I’d like to move away from Apple entirely, but I’m kinda stuck right now. I can’t afford to just get rid of perfectly good phones and tablets to try and replace them with better privacy options.

I do what I can to protect my privacy on apple devices, but I don’t trust them at all.

[–] nomadjoanne 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't blame you. I'd definitely choose apple over Windows at least on the desktop side of things. You get a Unixy experience and their UI is pretty good.

I am still a Gnome user mostly because the interface is Maclike and I came to Linux from the Mac world.

That and as far as phones and tablets go, your options are really limited if you want to go the custom ROM route. ARM is horrible in that each SOC needs its own custom kernel. A very different world from x86.

[–] harsh3466 2 points 1 year ago

The tablet and mobile limitations really suck. I edit my photos on my iPad, (and privacy issues aside), I love the iPad for this, and don’t have any plans to abandon it.

I’d consider a pixel with graphene, but not until the phone I have dies/is unusable.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Windows drivers only.

If you are on a spyware platform, what can you expect otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Lol saved me a click thanks

[–] warmaster 9 points 1 year ago

Damn. I was thinking: what the actual fuck, I escaped Windows and now this?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Can you imagine some marketing firm contacting intel to pay for the user data scraped by their customers GPUs?

Like how is that real.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Laughs in Mesa

[–] TheMadnessKing 6 points 1 year ago

The fact that Nvidia has been doing this for ages without opt-out (afaik) makes Intel look more humane in comparison.

[–] raltoid 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

There might be some bias involved based on the third paragraph:

The good news is that users can opt out of this data collection by deselecting it during the installation process. However, the process isn’t too straightforward either unlike AMD, which explicitly asks the user whether they want to opt out of data collection. Nvidia, however, enables and installs its Telemetry components by default and users are unable to opt out of it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is it biased to point out whether you can disable telemetry and how simple it is to do so?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To me, the article title is biased clickbait because it implies Intel is worse than the other GPU options. But Nvidia has been doing the same shit for years.

But I'm not the person you replied to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Claiming that Intel is not as shitty as Nvidia is pretty bold.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Uh by stating how it is during installation of beta drivers from the competition is bias?