schwim

joined 5 months ago
[–] schwim@piefed.zip 1 points 12 hours ago

As soon as you're forced to buy that vacuum, sure, your analogy is rock solid and it's like actual slavery.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago

I guess anything that happens while using a computer fits the community now?

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Western governments don't need that. They already have access to all you do on your device via backdoors and agreements with vendors and software providers. They could know absolutely everything about any "free citizen" they wanted.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 25 points 1 month ago (6 children)

The system won't be the tiniest bit less corrupt with newsom at the wheel.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 10 points 1 month ago

"The people that seem to be most distressed by it were the people who had not gone looking for it," Lloyd said.

Lloyd's his birth name but he insists we call him Captain Obvious at the office.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As does screening or answering. There's no way around that unless you just don't plan to ever use your phone as a phone.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

When it was introduced to Android years ago, I regained a lot of my sanity. Prior to it, I was seriously considering just disabling the phone function and sending everything to rot in voicemail. I can't remember the last time an actual spam call got through the invisible screening process.

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 22 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I actually LOLed at "MUSIC LEGEND".

[–] schwim@piefed.zip 4 points 3 months ago

So it's safe to carry on not using it?

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