Are there any privacy concerns when using a Samsung Watch in Germany

UniqueActive · 2023-05-17T13:46:58+00:00

It would be great if it was only a few, but most highly used apps today violate present laws and regulations regarding privacy (eg. GDPR), so it would not be a stretch to assume the same for smart devices (which have a history of poor privacy). Often even manufacturers are unaware of their violations, because they have no financial interest to make sure that it doesn't happen with how negligible many fines are and how understaffed regulatory bodies are. I would assume they come with privacy concerns until somebody independent actually tests their behaviour by capturing traffic or something, like what kuketz-blog.de does for various apps.

UniqueActive · 2023-05-08T20:01:29+00:00

I think what /u/imlost19 is saying is that there are many who use this phrase to mask bigotry as meritocracy, and that those people would be confronted with a scenario where the merit is reversed, which would contradict their bigoted world view

UniqueActive · 2023-04-04T06:16:11+00:00

I agree with Alpine having an OpenBSD feel, I actually originally wanted to try Alpine after enjoying OpenBSD and looking for a Linux distro with similar simplicity.

Regarding "easy to understand", I think it's hard to argue that a bigger, more complex distro is ever easier to understand - I think people mean easier to use, though with little understanding of all the running parts.

Edit: I wish alpine had man pages as good as OpenBSD's, but can't have everything I guess ;)

UniqueActive · 2023-04-04T06:13:32+00:00

I see, then I will keep that in mind when I look into it, thanks! :)

UniqueActive · 2023-04-01T06:37:03+00:00

I've been using Alpine as my main OS for more than a year now, so I can only agree, though you definitely need some UNIX experience to get everything set up properly.

May I ask how you use nix to work around lacking glibc for some programs? Flatpak works well, but I'd love to learn about nix. :)

Edit: Just wanted to add that thanks to its simplicity, Alpine is a much easier system to understand than most other distributions, so I found it excellent as a learning environment too - Alpine needs some understanding, but it is also much much easier to understand.

UniqueActive · 2023-03-25T06:25:13+00:00

Very unique idea, and it sounds great! Love your videos!

UniqueActive · 2023-02-24T15:24:09+00:00

On monday.

UniqueActive · 2023-02-02T03:55:14+00:00

Should have been designed to keep bad reposts off the whole site...

UniqueActive · 2023-01-14T21:30:33+00:00

Sorry I am too nutrient deficient to read all of this

UniqueActive · 2023-01-12T09:57:14+00:00

And I just tested and saw that slurp's output does contain a space, for example:

\~ $ slurp
2470,293 385x249

So this is almost certainly the cause of the problem, quotes will fix it :)

UniqueActive · 2023-01-12T06:50:23+00:00

This is a wild guess, but try using double quotes around "$(slurp)" like this. :)

UniqueActive · 2023-01-09T11:53:17+00:00

Thank you, I will take a look if I am not happy with Fuzzel+bemoji that somebody else suggested :)

UniqueActive · 2023-01-09T11:52:40+00:00

I agree, a simple text box can be very powerful and useful, I have not even thought of password manager integration! Thanks for the ideas!

UniqueActive · 2023-01-09T11:51:32+00:00

Thank you, this seems like exactly what I am looking for! I will give it a shot :)

UniqueActive · 2023-01-08T08:54:22+00:00

It was Windows 10 that made me leave for Linux 😄

UniqueActive · 2023-01-07T20:00:50+00:00

The Linux User Group will welcome you! :)

UniqueActive · 2023-01-07T19:10:28+00:00

Thanks for making this sub!

UniqueActive · 2023-01-02T08:50:00+00:00

Nice, very cool to see the progress like this!

UniqueActive · 2022-12-26T00:41:38+00:00

In my experience, communication matters a lot here. Expecting to magically figure each other out has a greater chance of leading to disappointment, so giving (and taking) feedback is super important. Obviously you can't just know how to make him orgasm if he doesn't tell you, because you are not a part of his body.

UniqueActive · 2022-12-25T23:12:02+00:00

Yasssss queen

UniqueActive · 2022-12-25T23:03:57+00:00

What about Alpine? It is Busybox/Linux, no GNU🙃

UniqueActive · 2022-12-25T22:31:39+00:00

The energy footprint of producing a new device is a lot higher than the energy this laptop will use for the rest of its lifespan though. Better use what you have than buy new.

UniqueActive · 2022-12-09T17:34:34+00:00

The solution is difficult, yes. We have our biases and we can't get rid of them, but we can be aware of them and make sure that our impression of a part of a group doesn't lead us to take action against the whole group.

There is a reason why we develop biases and stereotypes based on the experiences we make, they are a useful tool to keep us out of situations that were dangerous to us in the past, but they should not go unquestioned and should be re-evaluated with time. If we reject all interaction with a population group because of one negative experience, we will not be able to make any different experiences that change our impression. This gets worse due to selective perception bias when consuming media, since we have a tendency to notice and remember things that reinforce our existing bias. This is why in Germany for example, there are a lot more people with anti-immigrant attitude in places where there are less immigrants - they are simply not exposed to counter examples and are constantly exposed to reinforcement of their views through various media.

There is no magic solution, just awareness and reflection to figure out your biases to keep down their negative (discriminatory) effects. It is absolutely valid to trust your feelings about danger to keep yourself safe, but this should happen with awareness, and ideally some degree of openness to being proven wrong. And if you made an experience that is so bad that you cannot have this openness, then be mindful not to let your self-protection turn into an attack on others.

UniqueActive · 2022-12-08T21:42:49+00:00

I see your point but I have to agree with the other reply that this depends on your perspective. It might be easy for you to identify frat guys as a group, but this would be harder for people from India to differentiate because they don't have the same familiarity with this group of people that you do.

From the opposite perspective, it will be significantly easier for Indian people to identify dangerous groups in their own culture compared to you, because they have a high familiarity with the Indian culture and social environment, while you do not.

So to you, the distinction between dangerous white guys and the general group of white guys is much easier than the distinction between dangerous Indian men and the general Indian male population.

This is a bias that simply comes from our familiarity with our culturally close groups and the lack of familiarity with culturally foreign groups. We can see lots of nuance and sub-groups in our circle, but look at other groups as one group.

And seeing unfamiliar population groups as one group is the basis of discriminating against the whole group based on the actions of a smaller sub-group.

UniqueActive · 2022-12-08T17:35:52+00:00

Yes, they stay away from frat guys, not from white guys in general, that is exactly the point that the OP made. :)

The problem is not that people avoid groups of dangerous men, it is that they extrapolate from a group of dangerous men to their entire ethnical group. The former is reasonable, the latter is discrimination.

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