That has been working fine for years at this point.

Contactless payments technically work fine, just not via Google Wallet. Banks that have their own tap to pay app usually don't have that problem.

It's probably illegal in Germany and some other EU countries. Not that that always stops Big Tech. But this one, at least in Germany, could land the user some jail time.

Oh, you mean a profile set up by your employer. Actually, dunno whether that works. I never let any employer touch a personal device.

If you can prove that, you'd probably have a nice story on your hand. I don't think there's currently a known way an app can bypass system permissions for contacts on current Android/iOS.

When A-B listening to songs I've heard many, many tines, on my best headphones (AKG K-712 Pro), in a quiet environment. I feel 320kbps would be fine, but my sound library is miniscule compared to my visual media library either way, so it's kinda a "why not" thing.

There's also some factors that are hard to control for, e.g. whether the same mix/master was used for both. I'm also relatively young, which surely also helps.

I get it'd be a bit of work, but if you ever have the time, I'd ditch Google Sites. Don't need to give them more control than they already have.

Guess we now know where the database problems where coming from.

Did that for a while, cause I had no choice. Very little stress, for a bit. Till the money starts running out.

A lot of fashion brands habe headquarters on Europe. But whether there headquartered here, on the States, or elsewhere, most of them have the same BS conditions in their factories.

There's only very few brands that actually produce in Europe, or under good labour conditions elsewhere. Way more important than hq adress. Also, a lot of made in Italy stuff isn't produced under great conditions either.

From my memory/wardrobe: Armed Angels, Colourful Standard, trigema. Some others I don't remember right now.

There's translators like deepl that are good enough at keeping tone, or at least structure. This sounds more like giving an LLM the input to formulate a message that says a list of things, not translating a message written by you.

Also, I assume this is your website - https://sherlockprivate.com/. A lot of functions flat out don't work. Links in your footer are broken. You don't have a privacy policy. You use Gmail as your main address. It all reads like a sales pitch for people who don't know a lot about privacy or encryption. It's also, subjectively, not very pretty. None of this inspires any confidence.

Look at the way Tesla collects and treats customer data, and the way Musk seems to unilaterally abuse his control over the companies he owns for personal reasons.

Now think about the capabilities of the Intel Management Engine that pretty much every Intel CPU requires.

Bad vibes, I say.

For those feeling out of the loop, see here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/...

Tldr - it's a little always on processor, running a Minix OS, with direct access to all board devices including the Ethernet Controller.

AMD has something similar in form of their Platform Security Processor.

That's an ugly-ass mansion.

Also, don't tell anyone you know that, or you're not gonna be on any jury.

I've gotten a free CD at a concert recently. I don't have anything to play it on.

Why are you using a recording app with ads/tracking when there's free alternatives that don't do that?

Like, if you really wanna have transcripts, Google's recording app works even if you deny it network access. Found that out because I was too lazy to look for a proper FOSS solution.

Earlier this year, I got a game I liked on steam. Pretty much 3d Rimworld. After playing for 20 hours over a few weeks, I sporadically started getting errors about me having "no hardware activations" left for the game, and how I should wait 24 hours. I have never installed it on any other machine.

It is so very silly that a pirated copy would be the more seamless experience.

I don't think the average user thinks much about the platform they're on, and about who controls it. I think they go to wherever most of their family/friends are.

Also, those platforms are firmly in the mainstream, the alternatives aren't really - you'd have to actively go search for them. People just aren't likely to do that, I don't think.

A sensible approach would have been to regulate data collection and misinformation on social media in general, instead of writing a law that bans one specific platform. But oh well, what do I know.

If I remember correctly, the reason for all this was that his other kids really aren't on board with daddy's political opinions, and would be able to overrule their brother. We'll see how it turns out.