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What’s next Microsoft? Replace the windows os loading windows page with a 30s ad? Or have defender uninstall apps if a competitor pays enough? Maybe capture a screenshot of my screen every 3 seconds for AI analysis?
If your goal is to play “Robin Morningwood Adventure - A Gay RPG” from the comfort of your closet without your aunt getting a notification, then you want to mark the game private.
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/1150-C06F-4D62-4966
Obviously, this is insufficient if you don’t want the watchful eye of Valve themselves to be upon your gaming session.
I’ll accept that maybe I’m giving Google a pass because of misplaced nostalgia, and while I personally have never used or liked Meta Facebook, I’ll concede that for a while it provided a service some people valued.
It’s still my opinion that Google and Facebook have a large percentage of engineers that personally try to make them a genuinely good service, at least moreso than compared to TikTok and Temu. But I’m willing to concede it’s not as much a practical difference as I would like.
Emphasis on by comparison, as in “molten hot metal is cooler than the surface of the sun, by comparison”.
TikTok and Temu actively have code in them that would be considered a virus in other contexts. They exploit your system to gain more access than they should, violating the point of sandboxed access.
By comparison Meta and Google merely take advantage of user ignorance and apathy by making opting out frustrating - but still technically doable.
Both practices are terrible, but that’s not the same as saying they’re equally bad.
How about https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
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A demon core was part of early nuclear bomb research. The type of reaction they were studying would emit blue light and a ton of radiation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core
It’s been a meme to imagine the demon core as an available weapon in medieval fantasy, since it looks somewhat like a mace.