I learned about it recently, too. I am sick of feeling like I am prisoner with an ankle monitor. Even if I leave my phone at home I still feel like someone is just itching to nab me for some bullshit made up crap.

I want a linux phone! I heard Cape phones will be a thing for the general public in 2026. They said that they and the provider are very privacy focused. I pray they are being truthful.

How about they drop the entire thing and keep it as it was and is?

I remember when China was the boogie man of surveillance until the rest went ‘hold my beer’. What the fuck is going on?

I know the F C and K, but what are the others?

Tech feudalism needs to be made 100% illegal.

I remember the smug internet atheist era that said that Christianity would fade away soon to science… and then slowly but surely many of those same atheists either became Christians or allied themselves with the same vile Christian nationalists who are actively exporting their filth all over the world.

That sounds more reasonable. I mean driver updates for many items I used weren’t mandatory or searched for by my computer. Not even my windows machine. I had to go on their website to download them.

I worked in tech support for several years last decade… and the amount of people who tell me ‘my Facebook isn’t working’ to mean their internet connection is bust is insane. And they aren’t getting any smarter. Last time I worked tech support was in 2021 and I got fired when I nearly lost my shit with an American client who demanded to know why he couldn’t enter a company store without a mask.

Exactly. Local connection. Why the fuck does it need access to some server somewhere? I am sorry… but if they have updates for their shit available they need different ways of making it available.

Also why the fuck does the company need audio recordings from your home? That is literally spy shit. And why does it need the layout? Even if they were doing it purely to improve their products and make them be able to work around confusing layouts and obstacles then that shit needs your full knowledge and consent… and you can withdraw consent at any time for any reason.

I am too tired to rant further.

I don’t understand why these devices need an internet connection?

Big mike! Or gros Michel. Whichever you prefer to call it.

Gaming is not the issue for me. All my games work fine. The problem is using some cheats that I did for some games like cyberpunk 2077. I cannot get PINCE or cheat engine to work on it.

Same here. I actually had windows 11 for a bit… but not any more. I went linux and never looked back.

I use discord via browser on my Linux.

Glad I ditched windows 11 for linux mint.

Bricks? I used mine to process diamonds. Cracked them up real good. It still had its shine, too.

Yo ho yo ho a pirate’s life for me.

I love fitgirls.

Well it ultimately just keeps score snd achievements… but why the fuck do the achievements need to be cloud based? None of the other games I have are like that.