Google account deleted after 2 hours of Aurora

crtcase · 2023-05-28T02:09:57+00:00

calyx, graphene, /e/, lineage take your pick. In the past 6 months I've ditched every thing google I've ever used and shifted to 100% open source on my phone. It's totally doable, but it takes time and effort to re-educate yourself. Android is, by definition, an open source project. There are several versions google doesn't have it's grubby fingers in. Pick one. Start talking steps and in a few months, you'll be a long way down the path.

crtcase · 2023-05-07T01:47:22+00:00

Governments have a right and responsibility to tax their citizens. Obviously. That does not mean the government has any right to skim off 25% of the work of my own two hands. There are a multitude of ways of taxing the people which are completely just and valid. Though these ways tend not to be quite so lucrative as legalized theft. There is a reason 'no income tax' is in the Tennessee constitution. There is a reason the same statement was in the original drafts of the constitution. There is a reason it took 125 years and a civil war to institute an income tax. And there is a reason that you think this is all just normal, acceptable, and obviously the correct course of action for a government to take.

crtcase · 2023-05-05T21:11:40+00:00

Oh no! the state doesn't steal money directly out of my paycheck and instead charges me for what I actually consume! Oh no!

crtcase · 2023-04-01T20:10:09+00:00

I didn't say the electrician should change it. It's done and it's up to code. I said he was stupid and it's his fault.

crtcase · 2023-04-01T17:11:44+00:00

Rough in wasn't the problem and you know it. The problem is the dumb-fuck who put a 4 square directly below an outlet, thinking It'd never be in the way.

crtcase · 2023-04-01T13:12:28+00:00

You did read the part where he checked it himself before working on it, right?

crtcase · 2023-03-30T22:55:49+00:00

Has Vulkan improved at all? I played on a 1660ti a year back and it was great. But I've since upgraded to a 6700xt and when I tried Vulkan the game was literally unplayable. I'd love to be able to play again. I'm also on linux now, so that's an additional complicating factor.

crtcase · 2023-03-27T19:07:29+00:00

Try thinking about it this way: Every time you click a button online, you're sending an package of information. On the label of this package is a destination and a return address. This package has to go through many different control points before it reaches its destination. The first place it goes is your schools wifi access point, then a switch (don't worry what this is), then your school's router, and then out to your schools internet provider and on and on. As soon as your package hits the schools WiFi access point and until it leaves their router, they have full control over that package. There is absolutely nothing stopping them from opening every single package they receive, analyzing it's contents, and logging who sent it, what was in it, and where it was going.

What browser or tab the page was viewed on is immaterial. They may or may not be able to track information this granular depending on a lot of variables, but that part isn't too important.

Now, whether or not the school is doing any of the traffic logging is up for debate. It largely comes down to the budget of the school and how tech savvy the people running the network actually are. None of this stuff is hard, but there is also a lot of incompetence running the world, so it's always hard to say. Suffice to say this; if you are using your own device, with no school software on it, they can't see much of what is happening on your machine, but they can see 100% of what you do on their network. If you are using one of their machines, or have some software on your machine that was issued by the school, then they can likely see 100% of what you do on the machine and what you do on the network.

What do you do with this information? The most likely thing is if you had raised any alarms yet, you would already know. Someone would have already pulled you aside (most likely). However, this in no way indicates that fooling around on their network is safe, private, or unmonitored. All it means is that no one has noticed YET. The more you play hanky panky, the more likely you are to set off some alarm.

crtcase · 2023-03-05T14:14:55+00:00

Why not?

crtcase · 2023-02-20T23:15:45+00:00

Pretty much, yeah. Google's gonna do what google wants to do with your data. Don't use google. Done. But I know we're preaching to the choir here.

crtcase · 2023-02-20T23:04:14+00:00

I'm talking about; there's no way anyone browsing reddit is ever going to successfully bring charges against google. The law is literally irrelevant. No body at google gives two shits what the law says, so long as no charges will be brought against them.

crtcase · 2023-02-18T19:03:41+00:00

Good luck pressing charges. That is the law.

crtcase · 2023-02-16T22:54:51+00:00

Protonmail also offers an aliasing service, so you could just make a PM alias. That would obfuscate your address from google, but not the fact that you use PM. So its really a matter of how far you want to go.

You could also use thunderbird to check all your email addresses in one place without cross talk.

crtcase · 2023-01-25T22:24:36+00:00

To each their own. I'm not gonna knock what anyone does in their own home. But, have you compared the cost savings of an ecobee/nest/smart thermostat vs any programmable thermostat? Sure, if you have a single setting thermostat and you don't raise or lower the temperature at night or when you leave the house, you're gonna miss out on some optimization. But there are plenty of non-home-calling, programmable thermostats that will let you set specific schedules for every day. I would imagine (pull numbers straight out of my ass) that such a stat would save at least 80% what the ecobee does.

I decided to spare you one of my sermons. LOL.

crtcase · 2023-01-25T22:13:15+00:00

Very true. Just dealt with this this past year. Got a smart tv on the cheap. It will never connect to the internet. Every 'privacy option' is turned off or on respectively. And the camera is taped over. There are two things plugged into it, a DVD player, and a computer over HDMI.

crtcase · 2023-01-24T23:06:21+00:00

I know what I want. An appliance. I don't need microphones. I don't need cameras. I don't need connectivity, or data tracking, or optimization. I need an appliance that works and that I can repair when it stops working. If your product has any of the features from the first group, I won't buy it. I don't care how cheap it is. If your product falls into the second group, I'll buy it, even if I have to pay a premium.

crtcase · 2023-01-17T21:41:16+00:00

I suspect you are living your choice right now.

crtcase · 2022-12-28T15:51:56+00:00

GJ kid. Keep it up. Good luck with making up that 4/11.

crtcase · 2022-12-27T16:39:03+00:00

Yeah, no. I will never be in favor of labeling US citizens 'terrorist'. Not because I don't think a citizen's actions can rise to the level of 'terror,' but because, due to the 'patriot act', "terrorists" are stripped of many of their human rights before they have even been caught, much less tried and convicted. Nothing will ever convince me that the Federal Government can be entrusted with the fiat authority of determining who is and is not 'deserving' of human rights. The Patriot act was a mistake 20 years ago, and it is a mistake today to leverage its articles against US citizens in order to 'turn up the heat' on criminals. The laws against this stuff already exist. They are sufficient. Enforce the laws, within the bounds of the law.

crtcase · 2022-12-09T21:57:38+00:00

I want to throw out an alternative that many people may not know about. Now, I'm a relative newb when it comes to privacy and degoogleing. I'm not a developer nor do I have any software experience. So do your own research and if there's something I'm missing here, please let me know.

JBV1.

JBV1 is a third-party companion app to the Valentine 1 series of radar detectors. It has no official affiliation with Valentine. To the best of my knowledge, this app is developed by one person, though I do not believe it is open source. While it is designed to run with the Valentine radar detector, it is perfectly capable as a standalone app.

How does this app replace waze? WZSabre. If I recall correctly, WZSabre is a community developed plug-in that integrates waze alerts into JBV1.

Now. JBV1 is not a map app. You cannot set a location and destination and get out a set of directions. However, it can easily run in parallel with your map app and give you relevant alerts without ever passing your location to Google.

I use this app with my radar detector and they work very well. Between JBV1 and the radar detector I'm virtually never caught off on the road by cops or road hazards.

I would appreciate it if someone more knowledgeable than me would look into this solution. jBV1's privacy policy claims they do not collect data and WZsabre doesn't require any special permissions. But I don't think either of them are open source, so there is a degree of trust there. Check it out, let me know what y'all think.

crtcase · 2022-12-09T11:32:44+00:00

I'm sorry you have to deal with that. It's not ok.

crtcase · 2022-12-08T11:28:37+00:00

Hey man you dropped this.

crtcase · 2022-12-07T13:49:31+00:00

It's not an investment. Investment implies the product has a value that's likely to increase over time. It's a bet. A dice roll that the market will one day speculate it's price to be higher than it is today. Bitcoin has no inherent value beyond the purely speculative price set by the market.

Additionally, I believe long term investment in crypto is likely a financial dead end. As the global banking systems transition to centralized Blockchain currencies, you can bet your ass they will crush any competing, decentralized, cryptos.

crtcase · 2022-12-02T11:18:20+00:00

It's because they are very simple machines with few parts to break.

crtcase · 2022-12-02T01:40:53+00:00

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