What do you mean by “the user’s DNS” exactly??

Working in IT/development, this article encapsulates all my every day frustrations

He probably means whitelisting domains when posting already uploaded images, clearly not having read the post

Plenty specs for just playing around. If you already use Linux it’s a breeze

The conspiracies never end with you people…

Hey, I remember this! Some guy made a really cool Mario and Portal crossover using this, called Mari0, back in 2016.

It has portals, multiplayer and lots of hats!

It just isn’t. A car would need at least 2 passengers to beat a plane, maybe 3-4 depending on the car. Jet engines are incredibly efficient and planes carry a lot of people. If they all hopped in cars, the planet would turn into a smog hellscape.

If you care about personal emissions so much, take a train.

You write as if you’ve had a bit too much to drink

This site quickly turned into reddit-style bandwagoning and downvoting stuff you disagree with, huh

They do it anyway though.

A full plane is still greener than a car with 1-2 passengers.

YouTube has Shorts. Mine is mostly cute parrots and dog grooming videos though

It’s not usually the software on these locks that fail… You can make secure radio equipment. What does code have to do with it?

Most locks aren’t that secure anyway, and windows suck. I would only bother with this if I had a lot of money (and enemies) to secure everything around my house.

Locking down your stuff is more of an insurance thing, not a real security problem.

Either way whining about it won’t help

The equivalent of being broken up with, then posting daily on Facebook about your ex and contacting all her friends to tell them he’s/she’s the bad one

I’m sure they’re hating that 1% of their users is spamming /r/place with bot visits, but I think you have to realize that there’s no “fight” to be won and reddit definitely isn’t facing any type of demise.

If you like Lemmy, help improve it and stop talking about reddit.

In my understanding, the metrics tracked by just having Google Play services are pretty minimal.

It’s more like an API between your phone and apps you install through it, and the permission system for apps has improved immensely over the past 5-10 years. As I see it, it’s more like a firewall.

If you don’t want Google to know which apps you use and how much, you can go full custom, but that’s a bit too much tinfoil for me.

The tracking is mostly from web browsing. If you use Google Chrome, of course you can expect to be tracked based on browser history, cookies, etc., like most other browsers.

If I wanna do something in private, obviously I won’t use Chrome or a builtin browser.

There are lots of privacy oriented Android flavors out there. Most of them won’t come with Google Play services installed. Any of them will be able to run any apps you need.

In my opinion, Google isn’t bad at all when it comes to tracking and bloatware. They’re much like Apple. It’s the branded phones like Samsung that are absolutely horrible.

Anyway, check out the LineageOS Wiki: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/

It can give a quick overview of the devices which can easily install a custom ROM (OS). I heard good things about Fairphone

Sure do, and they’re not nearly as prevalent where I live. Almost beyond comparison

Like USA?

This happened to me once. Definitely a big highlight of my pooping career.