Ding ding ding!
HBCUs didn’t just appear for fun. They were founded to address segregation in higher education.
Boomers set up this world where only a college degree mattered, then they tore that world down.
Do whatever you want, kids. We’re all totally F’ed anyhow.
Aside from the Ars Technica article in the xpost, there’s a lot of “it depends.”
It depends on not just the OS, but if it’s a custom image built for Dell or HP or Asus etc. computers, what settings are on, what settings were on by default, what bloatware is pre-installed, etc.
Typically, all MS or Apple really want are to know what apps you have installed, zip code, email address, IP address, crash reports, and possibly keywords they can associate with advertising. That’s their baseline wish list, which is all advertising fodder, and depending on your settings, that can quickly expand to “anonymized” (it’s not) cookie use, tracking of websites visited, etc.
If you have a custom image (i.e. a Dell specific version of Windows) the laptop manufacturer will look for access to roughly the same data.
With the whole Copilot fiasco, recording things like keystrokes and screenshots really are potentially in play now. But, again, only if you have foolishly installed Copilot and turned that stuff on. And that only after huge public outcry. So there’s always a non-zero risk of that, but do your due diligence to know you settings.
Can you strip out bloatware and tighten down Windows to a reasonable degree? Sure. But because MS can and does change system settings without your consent, you might find in 6 months an article about a setting you turned off, that they turned back on and you had no idea.
“Just” as in nothing that demands a phone number to validate. Meaning that OP will be asked to enter a phone number when signing up and may not have to worry about it being the same one as their email account.
Namecheap let me register with just a Tuta email. Payment could maybe go through an online prepaid debit card. Never had a human check AFAIK.
A cure is petty much the only thing that will prevent the end of PEPFAR not turning into a backdraft style resurgent AIDS epidemic in southern Africa.
He eating the dogs, he’s eating the… well, not cats. Just dogs.
I’m not. Mint is all I need, Mint is all I want.
These comments really make me wonder if people would just get therapy instead of installing Arch if therapy was cheaper.
Ooooh, and not the…
checks decades of research
…glyphosate?
I mean, there might be just a many people in full on panic, bug out mode.
I used to have a Linux/Win 11 dual boot.
After about 6 months I stopped using Windows altogether. After about a year I just wiped the drive and went 100% Linux because Windows becomes a liability when it does BIOS updates you don’t want or need to ensure that it’s the only OS on the machine.
For the kind of people that use IG handles as a way to keep in contact, do you truly think you can say “Oh, I only have Mastadon” and even have them know what you’re talking about?
Stay strong! Just because people call to you from their walled garden doesn’t mean you need to lock yourself in there as well.
Well, it would be entirely stupid for the CCP to abduct him because he’s a reincarnation and then kill him. He’s just going to reincarnate again.
Depends entirely on the audience. The problem with privacy issues is that privacy nihilism sets on quickly, and people with short attention spans and no intrinsic idea of how much they’re being ripped off quickly take refuge in the comfort of a no-friction status quo.
An IG account isn’t a phone number or email, and I think it’s weird that young people treat it like it is.
Just say you don’t do social media, and if they can’t respect that, it’s a quick test as to if they’re your people or not.
Ooooh, gringo broligarchs, cast your eyes upon all the fucks left to give, and see that $Trump wallet may also be empty.