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Anon loves proprietary tech

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Submitted ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨TronNerd82@lemmy.ml⁩ to ⁨greentext@sh.itjust.works⁩

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  • perviouslyiner@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google a recent medical symptom - your smart watch already knows the gritty details

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    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s always cancer.
      Sore throat - cancer.
      Back ache - cancer.
      Tiredness, cough, loss of taste and/or smell - maybe COVID. But also, cancer.

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      • archonet@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In its defense, the symptom I googled most recently like a year and a half ago, did, in fact, turn out to be cancer.

        Yes, I’m fine now. But sometimes it’s right.

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      • selokichtli@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “It’s probably nothing to with about. Or cancer.”

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    • DrDystopia@lemy.lol ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      …But my smart watch is local sync only through FOSS alternative app. Maybe it’s a normally intelligent watch instead of a smart watch.

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  • EldenLord@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    No wait, you’re telling me that mega-corporations don’t care about me getting good products and having sole ownership of my personal data?

    B-but [sponsored tech-geek blog], [generic gaming-news outlet] and [irrelevant apple shill] only ever told me so! Are you implying they lie to me?

    Realtalk I only use cracked win11 pro workstation and iPhone because of work, every telemetry possible disabled (god bless the EU).

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    • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I have a trash internet connection so I just play whack-a-mole with internet privileges. Windows update? No. NVIDIA? Not a chance. Google? How is that even on my computer? But also nah.

      Turns out most things use fuck all resources without internet

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  • Gumbyyy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    FAKE! Obviously no self-respecting Apple iPhone user would own a Windows PC. Gotta keep it all in that walled garden, baby!

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  • Object@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    On that matter, why is Norton antivirus so popular? I don’t remember being prompted to install one when installing Windows, yet I’ve seen a lot of people with it.

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    • radix@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Back in the day, Norton actually made some useful tools. They’ve been coasting on that 90s reputation for decades, though. It’s all unnecessary bloatware now.

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      • BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Dos was so much easier to use with Norton Commander.

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      • Tash@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You gave me flashbacks of the Peter Norton and John McAfee days!

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      • criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There’s still contracts that force anti-virus on servers and desktops so that may be their other source of revenue

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    • skooma_king@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Back in the day, you were pushed hard to either put McAfee or Norton on your computer when you bought one from Dell, Compaq, etc. A lot of older people still think you need to do that so it’s still pretty popular.

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      • KingJalopy@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I always used kaspersky which I stupidly downloaded from a torrent lol. Guess it worked? I’ll never know tho.

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    • odium@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It comes preinstalled in a bunch of laptops.

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      • shneancy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        strange, most IT professionals will tell you the only thing you need is Windows Defender and an ability to think before clicking strange download buttons

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    • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It just comes on cheap prebuilts or laptops. It sucks.

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    prepares a morning shower

    ??

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    • secret300@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      HAL begs anon “please take a shower”

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “I am afraid I can’t do that, Dave, not until you have taken a shower”

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      this was written by someone pretending they know how showers work

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      • lightnsfw@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Notice he never actually enters the shower in this story.

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      • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Written by AI, you bet?

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    • Quadhammer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Wall mounted mechanical dildo obviously

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Max had already turned on the shower for me, setting the water temperature right where I liked it. As I jumped into the steam-filled stall. Max switched the music over to my shower tunes playlist. I recognized the opening riffs of “Change,” by John Waite. From the Vision Quest soundtrack. Geffen Records, 1985.

      Ready Player One had an AI that prepared his shower for him

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      • taladar@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        setting the water temperature right where I liked it.

        I have that too, it is called “having separate knobs for temperature and turning the water on and off” though I wouldn’t exactly consider it AI.

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  • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    For real, though, I’m building a Hal9000 system for my home built on top of Home Assistant and Esphome.

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    • Sabata11792@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What kind of hardware are you using for voice controls/voice output? Been looking to build an Ai waifu to control the lights.

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      • pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I’ll have to dig through my receipts to see. The Hal project has taken a back seat to the microchip controlled pet feeding stall project.

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  • Infomatics90@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    troll. no one uses Norton anymore, its all about avast.

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    • SuspiciousCatThing@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Is my McAfee not cool anymore?

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      • Infomatics90@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, he’s not shooting holding RPGs in his hand with blow all over the table anymore.

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      • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        no no no, kaspersky is where it’s at

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  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    beep boop “You’re wrist circumference is too wide and the tracker noticed no physical activities.”

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I used to wonder why someone didn’t just make a Linux distro that could natively run Windows programs until the whole copyright shit was explained to me.

    Now I just wonder why someone hasn’t done it anyway just because fuck Microsoft and because if they don’t even distribute it, how would they have actually broken a law?

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    • Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Or just do what other people breaking the law do and release it entirely anonymously via torrent, once it’s out there it’s out there.

      Don’t even have a website or explain anything, just dump it on pirate Bay and let word of mouth do the rest.

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    • stevedice@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s just really hard. Valve has been throwing money at the problem for like 10 years now and still hasn’t gotten it right.

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    • asudox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I bet there is such a distro being kept hidden from us. I wouldn’t be surprised. Even if it isn’t public, someone probably tried doing it for his own personal sake.

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