To be fair, nerds will tell their tech-illiterate friends about this change and probably influence them enough to consider it. Especially when it’s something as easy as downloading an application.

It’s much easier to switch a browser then it is to stop using Google, Facebook, etc.

I’m sure the void would have been filled with anither company.

But then the two on the bottom would have to be inside one another.

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You have “friends and family”?

Sounds like you’re a big fat phony!

Closed source does mean it’s worse by default because we can’t verify what the app does. The only things we really know about Whatsapp are:

1. Meta is scanning your texts before the message is sent. Back when I last used it you could easily verify this by typing a url and having the app underline the url for you.

2. Meta is collecting an enormous amount of Metadata. This can also be verified by checking the permissions the app has and by various people that have monitored the background activity of the app.

3. Meta is using the Signal protocol to send the message. However, as previously explained this means nothing because they already scanned the message prior to sending it.

So with no way to look at the code we have to assume that Meta is collecting and storing the messages and their metadata.

As another older gamer I have bought every single switch first party game to display them on my shelves. I also have them all on my PC as roms so I can enjoy them with high fidelity and stable 60 FPS.

I will neither buy another one of their games nor their next console and I also downloaded each and every rom I could find out of spite. I hope their next console crashes and burns like the Wii U…

According to this, people that don’t use Netflix are Chads.

You know, you are technically correct.

Same, friends. I don’t care what operating system people use, as long as Valve keeps supporting Proton and making it possible for me to game and therefore stick with Linux.

Not OP, but the lack of Linux support is my biggest issue with them.

This argument always bothers me.

Do you really expect people that are involved with child pornography to go “Oh well, now that it’s forbidden to have private messaging I guess I will just stop looking at children, because the law is the law and I have to follow it.”?

These people know they are breaking the law and I can promise you this. They will find a way to privately exchange their shit while the rest of us now have even less privacy…

Maybe pay off would be so far into the future that they don’t want to risk it? Who knows how long crypto will be a thing.

It’s worth mentioning thought that Microsoft did step in after they bought Bethesda to get the game to even run at 30fps on their consoles.

However, I very much doubt that they would have tried to compromise the vision of the game after paying premium for the company. Keep in mind that Bethesda had delivered some beloved games in the past.

The mistake was to trust them. A mistake that it looks like they don’t want to repeat with Blizzard judging by the huge amount of layoffs.

Why not just say “no, thank you” to such an invitation?

I still very much remember a very very early denuvo that broke my fucking CD burner. Since then I’ve avoided them like the plague and check every game before I buy it.

I know that it has gotten better and “only” costs performance nowadays, but the hate I have for that company is still there.

Unfortunately, no. They can however regrow their tales. Fortunately, loosing a limb or two for them isn’t a deal breaker as they can still hunt.

I doubt the people you are describing are on Lemmy.

That is one explanation, but imho a more likely explanation in the spirit of Hanlon’s razor is that he receives 100s of crazy texts like this on a daily basis and one of them just happens to somewhat align with what crazy shit he is doing now.

Easy, just call it xxvideos.