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Cake day: January 27th, 2025

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  • Thank you so much for going into detail! That’s exactly the kind of features breakdown explanation I was hoping for.

    Interesting that it’s Google of all companies implementing this stuff on their phones. Seems too coincidental to be accident. Maybe they have a security zealot in an executive position at Android, or maybe there’s a power clash of some sort between them and law enforcement. Or maybe it’s as simple as the government wanting a line of secure devices that they don’t have to worry as much about taking abroad and Google was the contractor of choice. I’m too cynical to believe that they’re doing it out of concern for their users under legal duress.








  • The guy who facilitates your mortgage contract isn’t getting your mortgage payments. The corporation that employs them is. The guy is making a wage or maybe just an hourly salary, plus commission.

    By your logic, the checkout worker at costco is skimming off your wages to gate your access to food and clothing. The only difference is that you wouldn’t personally object morally to that line of work, but your personal morality isn’t a class distinction.

    All companies are “capitalist AF”. It’s not just banks. But even a sleezy car salesman who is trained to convince you to sign an extortive lease isn’t oppressing you. He isn’t betraying you at a class level. He isn’t the one getting your monthly payments. His plight is exactly the same as yours.

    This isn’t “wacko lib”, it’s literally Marx. And if we can’t understand that and stomach the differentiation, we will forever collectively stay oppressed.




  • Yeah at this point the anticheat of the multiplayer military fps genre really is the opiate of the masses keeping windows at the top of gaming market share. Because no OS besides windows would ever allow for something so wildly insecure.

    I play the genre, in fact PUBG is one of my favorite games (Judge me as you will), but I made the decision a few years back that my control over my own computer, my privacy and security in my own home, my ideological rejection of the stranglehold microsoft has over the home PC, were all more important than my ability to play a handful of violent, samesie, DoD-funded military apologia.

    I have zero regrets. I do miss PUBG from time to time. But no, in the end it wasn’t really an excuse to not switch.


  • No, they’re not. A lot of them don’t even have a degree in anything.

    Your personal financial advisor is a person you should be able to trust with your important financial decisions. They guy at the bank handing you a contract to sign is an employee with a script on rails, a manager, and a commission structure.

    In a better world it wouldn’t be like that but in a better world I don’t think I’d be going to a bank in the first place.