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  • Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

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  • I appreciate your comments and good points!

    WHY DON’T YOU WANT PERSONALIZED ADVERTISEMENTS?

    Lol. I prefer the terms user-preferred advertisements or user-centric advertisements /s. Whenever I see targeted ads, I just think it's creepy

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  • Thank you very much, kind Lemmy! I think it makes sense for me to postpone that a bit due to other things going on at the moment. But it was really helpful to vent and to hear words of empathy and support from people like you :)

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  • Great points! Ownership, control, access, possession - these might apply differently to different things. I could see ownership being more relevant than other concepts in digital documentation of one's genetic information, for example. I think a public library model (ie, access) would work pretty satisfactorily for entertainment media. Our language might have lagged behind the privacy, consumer, and legal concerns of today. My knowledge certainly has, but that can be changed ;)

  • Coming to terms with no longer having privacy and control over my technology

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  • I was under the impression that the second part of that saying was deliberately facetious or sarcastic lol

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  • I might've misspoke about never paying for a video game again. I do like the look of gog. I'm really out of the loop when it comes to gaming. I like more privacy- and ownership-respecting platforms, and I would (do) pay for those. What I meant was I'd caught a glimpse of the direction of the mainstream gaming industry with WC3, and I realized it wouldn't work for me and had to get off it. I use LibreOffice. I'll check out the libre gaming software, thanks!

    They’ll obviously win when we run away. We should take the fight to them.

    I appreciate your point of view. The way I see it, I think maybe 95/100 people blindly trust big tech companies and 5 of us don't (to the willing we'll avoid mainstream social media, for example); the proportion is debatable, but I think it's a very uneven divide. I don't think we have enough power to "stick it" to big tech. I also don't think we need to. I participated in the reddit blackout last summer and then I left it altogether for here (Lemmy), which I enjoy more and want to help grow more than I did the last place. I guess I do want some people to keep big tech in check and whistle-blow, at least to help spread awareness. I guess I'm just not the person for the job, and I think that's okay. More tech savvy people would do well in those roles :)

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  • I appreciate the rec's! I did check out gog a bit a month or so ago and thought it did look refreshingly different

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  • I understand your pause on purchasing the robot vacuum. So many of these devices seem designed to collect every bit of your data that they can get their hands on, ostensibly justified by some veneer of convenience to the customer (ie, data livestock) or their 'safety' or 'privacy' (lol). As someone with lesser tech knowledge than you do to manage such data siphoning, I think it's safe to say I'll never be interested in owning a robot vacuum

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  • You are so right

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  • Ah yes, neo-feudalism, I think

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  • I appreciate you sharing that! Sounds like you got a good thing going

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  • So true. As others have remarked on here, entshittification really changes the calculus of "is piracy worth it?"

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  • Another problem caused by greedflation: companies want to collect both money and data for every usage (edit: I forgot to include "push ads in your face" as well)

  • Will I always look this bad, started HRT in January 2022

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  • Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?

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  • I enjoyed your analysis! I think you meant

    Most of what I’m seeing is around ~1/3~ [3:1] ratio of subs to active users per week, of the best performers

    Subs being subscribers, and these data possibly providing evidence of there being less engagement of late, per OP's point

  • Has community engagement dropped off suddenly?

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  • I'm not sure if I've seen a drop off lately. And I wanted to say hi :)

  • A poem about gender roles I wrote as an egg.

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  • Thank for sharing, Lady Scarecrow. I like your poem a lot. It makes me reflect on society.

    The gender roles (or rules) in our society are absurd. You go into a store: accessories socially approved for males are on one side, accessories socially approved for females are on the other side.

    What year is it? Are we incapable of nuance?

    As I see it, the enforcement of gender roles/rules is just another means of social control, like racial terminology ('Caucasian', 'African-American'), like caste systems, like transfer of intergenerational wealth.

    As a gender-expansive person, I find it very oppressive. When I walk the streets, I get the sense that even many cishets aren't served well by it.

    Who's more obsessed with gender, people who don't identify with their assigned gender at birth or people who require everyone to identify with their assigned gender at birth?

    I'm male. I'd love to walk around with painted fingernails. But some people would be more comfortable with me walking around with a gun.

    I'm still figuring things out. Presently my strategies to live in this unhealthy world are non-disclosure and, per Voltaire's wisdom, cultivating my own garden

  • I hate myself and I'll never have anything

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  • You're welcome :)

  • I hate myself and I'll never have anything

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  • I'm sorry if this is not the comment you were looking for, but I think I hear where you're coming from and I empathize a lot with you and your current situation. It sounds like you're in an overwhelming amount of pain right now. It sounds like you're having issues with HRT working properly, finances, loneliness, and depression. Social media can be a nice distraction, but it can also magnify our pain and distract us from trying to tackle it. You're feeling hopeless right now, and that's completely valid and understandable given your situation. But try not to interpret it as evidence that things are permanently broken and not worthwhile. It's evidence that you're in a really tough place and could really use some compassion right now. Hearing you say that you started HRT 2 years ago suggests to me that there is something you really want and that you're motivated to pursue it. Maybe there's something to be gained in trying to accept that things haven't gone perfectly over the last 2 years, asking yourself what you need, and trying some new things. Some more medical insight to optimize your HRT and some community sound like they'd be helpful. Returning to your hometown doesn't sound like it excites you, but maybe your familiarity there can work to your advantage. I like the saying "it's always darkest just before the dawn." I hope things start to get better for you and soon. If you're overwhelmed, setting small goals or a "one day at a time" approach can be a good strategy. Virtual hug <3

  • Pirate Site FMovies Rivals Major Streaming Platforms in U.S. Web Traffic

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  • Crap, I use FMovies. If the site is making headlines like this I'm probably going to need another site soon