You are right but you can’t exactly publish something and expect it to be private

The protocol is ActivityPub not ActivityPriv

If you don’t sign in or don’t interact, then you don’t have anything to worry about. Reddit doesn’t make votes public but it definitely is selling your voting data as well as IP and location data to third parties.

Lemmy just publishes the data it needs to make activity pub work. If you don’t do anything that generates an AP action then there is no data on you that somebody can compile. I agree that it probably isn’t a good idea to hide the fact that AP actions like upvotes or downvotes are public, but that’s how the protocol works

lol my main pc runs on a Xeon from 2011 and 16 GB of DDR3. Now it doesn’t play games newer than 2016 but that’s besides the point as I rarely play anything made past 2011

One of my favorite comments I ever read online was from someone who said they did this dance at the club and got thrown out

Same as it ever was. Same as it ever was

Unions are just a vehicle for worker organization. Workers don’t have to be leftist, they can be fascist too. But either way, they are stronger together. The union was successful in strengthening white supremacy in your case.

The solution then would be to form a stronger union counter to the entrenched one aligned with your beliefs system (as daunting as that may sound) or switch careers I guess

I jumped in the hot tub with my phone in my pocket last summer and needed a phone and couldn’t really wait for one to ship from a random eBay or swappa seller so I had to go to Best Buy.

They had nothing carrier unlocked that was newer than the 128GB iPhone 15 for $800, refurbished. All else they had was a couple old pixels and galaxies and they weren’t much cheaper.

Policies like impact the poor folks who can’t afford the cash for phones that are unlocked and are stuck paying high monthly service rates.

I think the only ones I don’t do on either side is live in an apartment, eat sushi, own an electric car, or watch cnn and fox

36 is not old lmao. Your friends probably have parents in their late 40s/early 50s and so expect your parent to be like theirs

I hope you are running for office if you are looking for the perfect candidate

I agree that if you completely take away their agency that it only makes the slop look more attractive but I also disagree that sentiment that “you can’t”. Technically it’s true. But that doesn’t mean we ought to give in to slop as parents. Low effort slop has been around since before AI. Find ways to teach the importance of genuine creative content and cultivate a preference for the real creative works with your children.

We had to use a family computer in a shared space. Not a tablet or phone that could be used unmonitored. Just because it wasn’t a technical measure doing the monitoring doesn’t mean we were unmonitored.

Only whitelist content or creators you personally have vetted with apps like YouTube kids, jellyfin, etc until you can trust their own decision making. Then share an account so that you can see watch history (and hopefully your good media choices influenced their tastes as you would share an algorithm)

I mean if your plans were to have a simple life to do whatever you want devoid of responsibility then they definitely ruin those plans.

For the right people, plans are ok being ruined

Maybe the first instance was his fault too and he should have been fired not sent back out for duty

To be more clear, I mean when parental controls are added to an app they are almost always half baked and inserted as a marketing gimmick.

As a whole parental controls are definitely important for parents to utilize to the best of their abilities, it’s just hard to actually implement them on the application level as opposed to the network or device level.

It really shouldn’t be that hard to make a “block all” system. And then whitelist things you want to allow on a piece meal basis. The reason such a system doesn’t exist is because it would hurt engagement and monetization numbers and these corporations won’t stop until every man woman and child has been exploited

Epic’s is probably the best because it’s the only one that has an easy “block everything but online play” button and lets you whitelist experiences with a parental pin