Oh there’s plenty of people out to get the average person. It’s just almost never the scapegoat that a political party selects.

Wait a sec, I thought it was if someone on your instance subscribes to A community in another instance. How is the first person supposed to find a specific community without discovery?

I wouldn’t say it is irrelevant when there is a worldwide push towards authoritarianism and countless examples of unreasonable search and seizure.

Plus, everyone has their own threat model. It’s almost a meme in the privacy community, but there’s a reason threat modeling and prioritization is step #1. It may not be a big concern to you (in your opinion), but imagine if it didn’t exist for someone who needs it.

Oh my God, you can’t just ask someone why they’re not white

Sorry to say that I don’t have much of a preference unless you’re in a specific mood. They’re all good games but do different things narratively and I dont know if gameplay or cut scenes make you want tk really dig into it more.

Depends on what features you need. For some people the whole idea is that you can take and make calls on your watch, as well as messaging. Sometimes the health tracking stuff requires a proprietary app instead of Gadget Bridge.

The most private watches are glorified notification machines. I got my wife a Garmin Venu and she uses their app. It’s not perfect but they’re fairly private as far as smart watches go. She needs all the bells and whistles so that’s the best I was able to find that is high end.

Definitely both

There is an extremely thorough (and long) video on this topic. I didn’t think I’d finish it or even watch half when I clicked it, but this guy is very informative and presents the info in a straightforward yet engaging way:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpgqWZyAJtM

If you still noped out on that runtime, here is my less professional summary:

Ultimately it is about the race to the bottom of enshittification that we are experiencing in all aspects of life, and “art” transforming into “content” is chief among them. Perry’s built in audience is huge, yet one that is practically never pandered to: conservative black women. He’s not even particularly good at this and the way he does it is problematic, but it’s enough that he is attempting at all. He has realized over the years that it doesn’t matter if it’s good at all, his core audience will support him because they believe he supports them and their issues.

His rise to being ridiculously OP and successful is propped up by black excellence truthers even though they may or may not actually like his content. He has spun his truly impressive success into deals with streaming services and deteriorated from mediocre to literal slop that rapidly produces enough episodes to get into syndication immediately, because the deals are signed for 100 episodes. Since he writes, directs, produces, and often acts in all these projects, and because the unknown actors do not get a chance over several years/seasons to renegotiate their contracts even if the show gets popular, he takes the lion’s share of the profits. 2 lion’s shares really.

His influence quickly squashes criticism, and rising stars are usually choked out by the machine of Perry’s media empire, bringing the attention back to him. Obviously this also affects the quality of his work.

He also makes some fascinating points about how Perry…kinda CAN’T get more deep with it. To start looking deeper about the topics he discusses would entail stripping away the patriarchy of the black Christian church, or to point a finger towards the societal problems and cycles of abuse that cause the villains of his stories (usually black men) to act the way they do. And as a true believer in capitalism and hard work=success, he can’t do that. Making his characters deeper may require addressing the ways that he’s a queer man one way or another, whether he’s gay, gender fluid, or both, which he can’t do as the church has a don’t ask don’t tell policy. So he’s stuck in a pretend world of bootstraps, one dimensional villains, where dressing up as a woman for a minstrel performance is just funny and not misogynist, an indictment, or deeper look at him in any way, and one where the moral thing to do is not only forgiving the cycles of abuse, but buying into it as a strength.

If even that is Tl; Dr: it’s the story of every other billionaire, really. He makes his money off of exploiting others. Usually young black people who are hungry for success. Just sucks that he can’t have empathy since he literally started from the bottom like the people he manipulates, unlike every other billionaire.

You can tell if you knit your ass hair into a braid.

Remember that time you trusted a fart that you shouldn’t have while doing a presentation in front of the class? IT WAS ME BARRY! I WAS THE SHART IN YOUR PANTS!

I don’t even rewatch my favorite movies very often, and they only take 2 hours. Committing 40 hours to a game from the 90s that I’ve already experienced is a lot. There are plenty of other games and plenty of other things to do with my time.

That sounds wildly unnecessary and resource intensive tbh. You’re already trusting their software, but you don’t trust…what? Their server security? Their signing process? Their honesty about the open source code being what you’re downloading? I’m really struggling to understand your thought process here.

What does this meme even mean?

Same as anything else. Security updates are the new antivirus, but baked in. That’s the most important reason.

There are new features that you may not notice or use. But think about it, support for new resolutions, refresh rates, cable standards, VRR, HDR, drivers for new hardware and USB devices, improved drivers for existing hardware, bug fixes. All of this has happened within the last few years. Not to mention visually obvious changes like redesigning the Ui, aesthetics, adding new baked in programs.

Eww

Photos auto upload to Ente Photos. I periodically manually back it up locally to my desktop and an external hard drive. I cut and paste directly from my phone to free storage and so I don’t have to scroll through Ente to see where I left off last backup.

General file storage like documents I use Tresorit. Mostly because it has a Linux app, otherwise I’d probably go Proton Drive. Proton Drive I use solely for game saves and whatever other random stuff I use on my Windows partition, which is not much. Similar to photos, I have a local backup on my external hard drive for important files.

I don’t back up my actual phone. I did make an app list in Notesnook, but by the time I get a new phone I tend to use the opportunity to downsize anyway. And to throw surveillance capitalism off my trail in case I made a few mistakes in not being careful over the period of owning the phone.

To clarify, some versions of Linux are lighter weight with resources, and macOS does tend to take up more RAM at rest to make things pull up snappier, if you have it to spare. But their compression algorithm is better, and if you are using near the limit, it will be more efficient with the use of the RAM you have available before lagging. With Windows and Linux, it feels more like if you’re out of RAM you’re out if RAM. It’s less likely to happen at all on Linux though.

I use mainly Linux but Mac is more efficient with RAM than Linux is also. By a significant amount.

Got any good recommendations for Masto/microblogverse? I haven’t made an account yet.