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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I don’t understand why I get zero choice

    Absolutely agree, I use to get excited for new updates to anything, cuz like “yay new things” or “old things but less buggy”

    But recently I’ve been absolutely sulking over the modern software updating paradigm of shipping perfectly fine updates with completely useless UI changes that absolutely nobody wanted so tech companies can justify having an in-house UI team

    Like my phone, on Android 11 I set the custom color to a really nice red color, i matched it to my wallpaper and everything, I loved it

    And then Android 12 hits, and that lovely red gets replaced with some bologna enthusiast’s spamcore aesthetic

    I’m sorry, Material “You”?. Nah this is Material Somebody Else fr

    And I can’t do anything to change the colors of my own phone

    I hate being a slave to UI teams, let me change the colors atleast, damnit

    I am so close to just rooting my phone ngl






  • This was a reply I posted on “What should I say when someone says they “don’t have anything to hide”?” In ask Lemmy a week ago, and I think it’s still applicable here

    They don’t choose what they need to hide, if their government outlaws woodworking tomorrow, then any carpenters today go from “having nothing to hide” to “I need to hide my entire career and hobby” overnight and in their sleep.

    And then the government threatens Facebook to hand over messages from any user suspected of woodworking, and then they get persecuted and arrested

    The government threatens Google to hand over all browser history from suspected woodworkers, Apple for all iCloud photos from suspected woodworkers, Amazon for all woodworking related purchases

    It goes on

    If the carpenter cared about privacy from the start, then the government just wouldn’t be able to find them and arrest them for simply woodworking

    But the carpenter didn’t care about privacy, they “had nothing to hide” yesterday, so when that law goes into effect tomorrow the government will have a really easy time finding them