Ouch. But very fair.

I’m not sure who this Sir Mix A Lot is, but does he love big butts?

My client pre-downloads videos, so I can fast forward and rewind at will.

If only I had a client with support for fast forward… Oh right. I do. Neat.

The obvious solution is to commit more than the average number of crimes of your fellow citizens.

Or, more specifically, more crimes than the average of your cohort of facial recognition doppelgangers.

That way, when the AI brings you to justice, it’s likely to be justice for a lesser crimes than the ones you already got away with.

(Sarcasm)

I think this argument should stop - it’s hammer time! :)

Edit: I would explain my stupid reference - I’m an MC Hammer fan, and I cannot lie…

Switch 2 is coming which I have no desire for.

I was hyped for the Switch 2 until the latest round of bullshit lawsuits. Now I’m going to pass.

I’ll be sure to buy an emulator from China pre-loaded with every Switch 2 title in about a decade, though.

So you only play indie games?

Pretty much.

More specifically, I only play new games that I can verify the author is receiving a fair wage. That tends to be pretty indie.

In the rare case that I’m somehow caught up on my indie game library, I also play open source games and AAA title abandonware.

Moving from “patient gamer” to “gamer with a strong stance against Nintendo’s and EA’s bullshit” honestly wasn’t a huge deal. And it continues to be easy on my wallet.

Yup. This is also why I stopped buying Nintendo products.

Good guess.

Sure. Because “working with banks, fintechs, merchants” was a swift friendly collaboration when moving to chip and PIN…

(/sarcasm … Because it was not.)

I’m pressing X to ‘doubt’ on this one.

Certain ideologies are just not compatible with western culture, specifically those who condone raping women and murdering lgbtq people.

I hear this argument a decent amount, but have never heard it actually expressed - only held up as a straw man argument on immigration issues.

None of us wants shitheads around. Some of us just want to give everyone a chance to prove whether they’re a shithead or not, before deciding whether they can immigrate.

This is the comment I was hoping for. Delightful!

…Our chief weapons are greed… And profit.

Yeah. I was genuinely startled at the ‘not’ in the Lemmy name. I bet the Onion writers are actually feeling bummed that they missed this beat.

Yep.

As someone who once sat back and said “I’ll have what the Union is having.” at negotiation time - I’m sad to report that I stopped being able to do that in tough times.

And I’m happy to report I no longer have this problem, as the union expanded and now I’m able to be a member.

Yep. That’s a good clarification.

“Apps within the same profile can communicate with mutual consent and it’s no different for sandboxed Google Play.”

If GFS is installed on a profile, any app in that profile can use it to phone home.

I suspect that aspect is mostly mitigated, for me. by my not using a Gmail account to sign into any apps. Theoretically, it doesn’t stop them from fingerprinting, in other ways.

Except:

“Google Play receives absolutely no special access or privileges on GrapheneOS as opposed to bypassing the app sandbox and receiving a massive amount of highly privileged access.”

and

“As with any other app, it can’t access data of other apps and requires explicit user consent to gain access to profile data or the standard permissions.”

Means that GFS is going to be denied it’s usual fingerprinting solutions.

Source: https://grapheneos.org/usage#sandboxed-google-play combined with professional experience with privacy technically, and a decent amount of (educated) speculation.

TL;DR:

Using separate profiles is better, particularly when using GFS.

But as someone who doesn’t sign into any Google account and just wants a banking app to work, GFS on the main profile is still way better than stock Android.

be sure that google can’t access anything else

Last time I read the GrapheneOS docs, my understanding was that this has been taken care of for you, even when using a single profile.

“When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don’t want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life’s manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I’m the man who’s gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I’m gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!”

• Cave Johnson, Portal 2

Serving PHP from Windows already felt scary, to me.