I don’t see anything like this in search, even DuckDuck.

What do you have on that you see this? (Or what have I turned off?)

I do use Ublock and Noscript, but they don’t list anything to block on search engines, really.

Dude, they’ve been tracking since the first cell phone (even the analog ones).

Since the first PCS phones in 1995 it just got easier with smaller cells.

Then with smart phones, all of them use AGPS, and the tracking data is largely available in a few ways - cell towers and signal strength, which/when AGPS data is pulled, etc (coupled with tower and signal data).

Then 5G cells are so small the accuracy is crazy with just cell and signal strength.

I’m not excusing what they’re doing, just giving background - there’s a lot more tracking going on than is obvious at first. And AGPS is always on already. It’s not a tracking function in itself, just is one piece if data that can be used.

Almost any messaging app is better, the question is what do your friends use, and can you get them to switch.

I’m a fan of XMPP because it’s an established protocol you can host yourself (if you wanted) - this removes untrustworthy providers.

It really comes down to what’s your goal?

Never.

And according to the Bureau of Labor (and some other sources) the median hourly wage in the US for non-supervisory (eg non-exempt) workers is around $34/hr.

The average (mean) is $36.67.

Of course these are heavily influenced by high COL areas, but if you lookup distributions, most people fall in the $24-$35 area of the curve, with only the 10th percentile making under $15. That suggests there aren’t many jobs paying that kind of money (or the distribution would look different), and that 90% of jobs pay above $15, with 80% paying above $20.

Planned obsolence via shoehorning crap connected tech into things that can run fine with controls from 1947 that will last 50+ years and are easily replaced with commodity components (relays) at any time.

Ok, bye.

The problem is they are almost never good, as everyone can read the same info 4x faster than someone can present it (best case), and 10x faster isn’t unusual.

Source: Former technical trainer - I’ve read a lot about instructional methodologies. Video is the lowest common denominator that’s all. It can be useful for things that have a visual component, and self hosting has very little of that.

Seems there are 2 kinds - video links with almost no text, just farming visits, and video links with a wall of text.

Both suck. Videos, in general, suck.

So much of what goes on here needs text, lots of it. Video is slow and cumbersome.

Used this for years now. Excellent app.

Give me your debit card pin.

I just loaded it, goes to the website linuxupskillchallenge.org

Hahaha, wtf?

And quickly realizing they could be used for more.

And this is part of why I root.

Only certain apps get network access, and only certain apps get to use Google services.

They’ll complain, some won’t work.

Next phone won’t have Google services at all, and untrustworthy apps will be sandboxed in their own profiles.

Like, turn off the iPad or iPhone?

Agreed.

Jack of All Trades!

Brisco County, Jr!

So, “green” energy is only cheaper if the government pays for it?

Not really a great argument.

Define share?

Keep all files in sync between two points?

Enable ad-hoc access to all files, or a subset?

There’s a free, 30 day program for learning Linux that may help, The Linux Upskill Challenge.

I like that it walks you through doing stuff, step by step, starting with foundations and building on it.