Might need to bump up to 0.8mm

The last panel should have an and, not an or

I monitor my web traffic through my router and my processor and disk activity, I’m confident.

Power to them, until the software I use has 100% Linux compatibility then my hand is forced

Yeah nah, I’ve had updates turned off for years and have no issues. All I do is game on my windows comp

You can keep using win10 without security updates, just be smart about it. Have a good firewall, and just use it for gaming and bills or whatever and you’ll be fine

You’d think after the 3rd fried steamdeck they’d look to see if the problem is elsewhere

Ah, the ol Lemmy switcharoo

You can probably disable it with a custom install, like Cortana

Legit question: for the average person, why would this matter? Like congrats copper, you can see my text messages to my mom, and my receipts in my email, and my pictures of my pets. If someone’s actually doing crime, then a password should be the least of their security measures.

I’m in the same boat as you and it drives me up a wall. I’ve found a solution and love getting 2-day battery life out of my 5 year old phone.

I swear by Greenify and use it religiously. It programmatically force-closes all of your apps that you don’t use, so that they don’t send broadcasts to each other like the other comments mentioned. There are only system apps running on my phone at all times, unless I specifically open other ones.

With “sensors off” toggled on, no GPS or auto-rotate, the only thing that triggers apps to open is changing networks or receiving a notification.

Use a Xbox 360 Kinect and Skanect software. You’ll need a power/USB adapter for it

I’ve heard the term used reffering the fetish about 3000x more than I’ve heard it used referring to a disability

Fair. “Far better than I was expecting for $30, but with limitations.” Can’t really scan anything less than about 4", but you can scan an entire room or car which is neat. My face came out really good.

I bought an old Xbox 360 Kinect and got surprising results out of it using Skanect

Legitimately, where did you see that Android isn’t profitable?

Their heart is in the right place, but good luck doing anything about it

Definition 2 of Citizen from Merriam-Webster:

an inhabitant of a city or town especially : one entitled to the rights and privileges of a freeman

The term is used out of respect, not out of nationalism.

Jokes on them, I’m out of date anyway

And why should the average user care? They use Alexa and have the Facebook app installed anyway, this is just a drop in the bucket for all the other crap that tracks every movement anyway