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you may be shocked to learn that your consent is not required in order for one company to buy another.
For transferring his data, it should be. It's his data not theirs to leak.
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Oh no, I'm just going to have to hope they won't ask for it before Proton (or something) starts supporting it :) But you are right, a time may come when they will want Windows. Although my wife's computer runs it (needs it as a teacher), so they may use that for Win only stuff. I'll deal with it when the time comes. I could do a VM with GPU pass-through and Steam client... Although that may also turn out to be more t…
Won’t the Steam client also ask you for a phone number as soon as you want to buy anything? How do you decide where to draw the line?
I confess I'm not sure; I've trusted Valve with a very specific part of my life (buying games) for nearly 20 years now, and they've held up their end of the bargain the entire time. My trust in them has paid off (so far!)
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> This is why I qualified open source with "community maintained." When there's a strong partition between the community and the developers then FOSS looks a lot like closed software. I'm just going to come out and say that I think Gnome and Firefox are two of the worst offenders of this.
Not really, you just happened to pick two projects that are particularly large and particularly old. Drive-by commits are a lot less valuable in those type of projects, unfortunately, but you can still find places to contribute if you spend the time to look.
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Well, there is MacOS, but that would probably require new hardware.
MacOS is the uncontested king of spying. It literally logs every single executable you run, when you run it, and where you run it from. And it shares this data with no court order as part of PRISM. https://sneak.berlin/20201112/your-computer-isnt-yours/
Not that you care, of course.
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I just don't see these "intrusions" when I upgrade iOS. What are you referring to?
Setup icloud, setup apple wallet, setup apple music service, etc. And then I am getting nagged again regularly for apple music service when playing my mp3s.
I suppose one could avoid ads for AM by using some other music player, though.