I don’t think that actually is a Free Software license, an open source license, or any kind of license for that matter, so much as a vague statement of intent

You don’t need to crack anything, pirate your ebooks (I’ve recently had good results from annas-archive.org for fiction books) and send them to kindle as personal documents.

Corporations are not people, no matter what the Supreme Court says.

The only game journalist I trust is James Stephanie Sterling and Denuvo sure as shit isn’t sending them a copy

When you go to PM, it clearly shows a message reading “Warning: Private messages in Lemmy are not secure. Please create an account on Element.io for secure messaging.”

It’s a public message board, don’t put anything you don’t want public on it.

firefox and a torrent client

It’s not crypto mining, because crypto mining is basically worthless on consumer hardware now. What it does is run its own ads and pay you for enduring them and being spied upon by them in its own cryptocurrency.

Kinda hoping to stretch it until tablet style foldables get reasonably reliable and affordable

Pop os, but don’t install brave, it’s bullshit cryptocurrency spyware.

Galaxy note 9. It’s the peak smartphone, no holepunch nonsense, every useful feature, still plenty fast. The only drawbacks are that the battery is starting to wear out, which is fixable with a bit of fuss, and the screen has a little bit of keyboard burn in, only visible on all black screens.

So it goes

From the 1998 paper titled “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine” by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page:

Currently, the predominant business model for commercial search engines is advertising. The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users. For example, in our prototype search engine one of the top results for cellular phone is “The Effect of Cellular Phone Use Upon Driver Attention”, a study which explains in great detail the distractions and risk associated with conversing on a cell phone while driving. This search result came up first because of its high importance as judged by the PageRank algorithm, an approximation of citation importance on the web [Page, 98]. It is clear that a search engine which was taking money for showing cellular phone ads would have difficulty justifying the page that our system returned to its paying advertisers. For this type of reason and historical experience with other media [Bagdikian 83], we expect that advertising funded search engines will be inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of the consumers.

Yeah there’s a pretty fundamental conflict of interest in an advertising company controlling most of the world’s browsers.

This means you need to use Firefox, Chrome is crippling adblockers.

That soon? Nice, I’ve been waiting.

It’s to feed your suburban paranoia

I unironically agree with your equivalent, too. Car bad bike good.

Putting a camera on the front of your house is stupid just answer the door asshole.

A normal goddamn doorbell

“It’s great right up until it breaks.” is a perfect summary

I get the same warning popup behavior closing the tab with the mouse or with ctrl-w