road-trip-girl

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hi. i'm hanging out. i like fire emblem and comics and stories and women. i don't post very often.

i am over 18


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nic
@nic

A lot of the problems with modern tech are hard to communicate to the average person, be they extremely complicated or overly abstract. How exactly marketing data is scraped from somewhere like Facebook and sold around the web is hard to visualize, and its effects are more measured at a population scale than individually. Certainly people notice when talking about wallets, then googling wallets, they get wallet ads for a week.

That all said, "Windows records your entire screen all day every day" is so massively understandable that it's shocking that they're going with this as a big selling feature. My least tech-literate family can immediately put together the method and implication of this feature, which of course leads to the why of it all. To call this a solution looking for a problem is being too generous.


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in reply to @deliciousbees's post:

image #4 is perfect. it thinks "live" means xbox live. it's fuzzy matching "society" to "people" and "unusable" to "unavailable". just a perfect encapsulation of how this shit just doesnt work despite all the data that gets fed into the machine

That is one thing that you are going to be unhappy with on Linux - online multiplayer games. The usual AAA publishers have gone from "bad" to "holy shit how have you gotten worse" about in-kernel anticheat since the Steam Deck came out.