I monitor my web traffic through my router and my processor and disk activity, I’m confident.

Power to them, until the software I use has 100% Linux compatibility then my hand is forced

Yeah nah, I’ve had updates turned off for years and have no issues. All I do is game on my windows comp

You can keep using win10 without security updates, just be smart about it. Have a good firewall, and just use it for gaming and bills or whatever and you’ll be fine

You can probably disable it with a custom install, like Cortana

Their heart is in the right place, but good luck doing anything about it

Jokes on them, I’m out of date anyway

And why should the average user care? They use Alexa and have the Facebook app installed anyway, this is just a drop in the bucket for all the other crap that tracks every movement anyway

Robocalls and robotexts are a serious problem that nobody takes seriously, and just treats as a fact of life when it doesn’t have to be that way. The rest of the world literally laughs at how much we’re harassed by them

There are no issues with the main Firefox branches for desktop and mobile, for the average user, not sure why you’re so against them.

The same way that I’d call my cat a little shit if she was being a brat for the fun of it like she does sometimes

You have posted anti-party memes to American social media, -15,000,000 social credit. Your family will now be sent to Gulag.

Because the little shits (affectionate) don’t want to put them down when appropriate

So… Match em? It’s not “unfair” if you don’t even bother to keep up

As much as I don’t want to believe it, it must be true. I guess development is cheap enough when you have foreign countries doing it for you

Literally just make ads less obnoxious, and/or make YouTube premium not stupidly expensive. That’s all you fuckin have to do, YouTube, and you can cut a huge portion of the cat and mouse game.

Not in the US unfortunately, which is bullshit

Photoshop select tools are awesome back to like CS4. Magnetic Lasso and Quick Select are super powerful and let you chain other tools together, and I remember something about Photoshop having good feather select features as well. Not having that base in other software severely limits what you can do.

Photoshop’s healing and clone stamp tools are also good at predicting what I want to fix or patch. If GIMP or other OSS editors have those features, they’d be in my toolbox for sure.

Disclaimer, my old copy of photoshop was “gifted from a friend” so I’m not trying to shill them. I haven’t used GIMP in a few years, so maybe (hopefully) it’s better than it was back then

Reject modernity, embrace 13th century BC Chinese practices and write stuff down instead. They invented it after all, it would be fitting

China: let’s get more money through glorious capitalism

Also China: wait not like that stop it