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Cake day: October 9th, 2023

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  • My desktop computer is plenty secure, but I can install whatever app I want from any source. The OS provides security tools to help protect against viruses. Even on a Mac desktop you can install apps outside the app store.

    Apple and Google are pushing for their app stores to be the only option. Imagine having one store chain in the whole world.

    And while the app store apps have a verification process, they’re not impenetrable. Apps slip through the system and scam apps are allowed to run rampent. What’s considered malware now has also changed, 25 years ago an app constantly “phoning home”, scanning your data, other apps and collecting data would have been considered malware.

    Devices would be most secure if we didn’t run any application.






  • Simple, we treat “corporate crimes” the same we would if a 30+ year old man committed them to a 18 year old girl, because that’s what’s happening. Once you’re 18 the “child data protections” go away.

    They essentially planted bugs in every 18 year old girl’s life and if your phrase it that way, the masses will realize how horrifying it is.

    Google shouldn’t have our entire location history, that’s called stalking.

    Google shouldn’t have an entire log of our private messages, that’s called eavesdropping.

    Microsoft shouldn’t be taking screen shots of our screen, that’s called spying.

    Amazon shouldn’t be using security cams to scan us for “AI” purposes.

    Apple shouldn’t be using our phone microphones for “data collection”.

    Facebook shouldn’t be compiling, scanning and indexing our photos.






  • Not OP, I went from a Pix5 google stock to Pix9 with Graphene on it. I transfered data manually. I think it the best way to go about it.

    A lot of of apps have an export setting feature that I used.

    IMO is also a good time to clear out bloat - the app you haven’t opened in 3 years doesn’t need to get copied over. Old downloads or a meme you shared one time 2 years ago - gone. Pictures or anything of sentiment get backed up and maybe copied to new phone.

    I transfered most files by plugging in both phones into the computer and copying files the easy way.

    I also setup syncthing to automatically sync the picture folders, a folder where I put copies of the exported setting files and few others for misc files and stuff I want backed up regularly.








  • In Need for Speed, how many other cars did you hit or do you play with traffic off? In a video game there are no consequences, so you end up hitting dozens and can keep going as you learn the game. In real life, you hit one car and someone is either dead, wishes they were, or incredibly lucky.

    How about hitting the trees, the road barriers, going through grass? All that stuff costs the community money to fix.

    Let’s say you’re the best (or luckiest) player in the world and never hit anything, how much did your little cousin hit when you first gave up the controller?

    Street racing is a crime because its dangerous to other people. You are intentionally putting other people’s life at risk for your own personal entertainment.