more than half the households in my county do not have any high-speed wireline service available to them.

i can’t. unless i’m really, really tired. i prefer blankets… as in plural… with some bulk and weight to them.

i don’t think it’s ‘legally required’ but it is bound to be on documentation you provide to prove eligibility to work. may also be needed for one or more types of background checks an employer may require.

rules for thee, but not for me (or those who give me money)

in the u.s. iirc usps gets your valid government id and home address when you rent a box at a post office, as does contacted private providers (e.g. ups store, etc) if you go that route. they are not ‘private’ or anonymous, just potentially more ‘secure’ in that your mail and parcels won’t be left outside your door or in an accessible and unsecured mailbox.

~ $1-2.5k usd, the cheapest having a whopping 4 gigabytes of storage.

pretty much all that’s left is to shut down the ‘apps’ that are still branded ‘freevee’ and don’t require a sign-in or account to use (unlike the prime video app the former imdb and freevee free content will still be available in). that’s what i’ll miss, a way to watch the few things it had without tying a viewing device to an azn account.

We are living in the state of Fuck it.

pretty much sums it all up right there.

i don’t deep dive into it enough to be a ‘nerd’, but i’ve been using some form or another since the early days of slack and debian.

even though it had shipped with windows, the installer would not detect my ssd for whatever reason.

bios probably defaulted to using a storage mode (like ‘raid’ or intel’s rst) that requires ‘f6’ drivers loaded during windows setup. solution would have been to either find those drivers or switch bios to ‘normal’ ahci mode.

so, you’re logged in, have a purchase history that includes clothing, and azn is trying to make a sizing recommendation?

and you could change him into something else. links the cat was mine.

real-life clickwrap.

‘kindly recite the full text of the terms of service before i choose whether push the button or punch your face’

captive portal detection, certificate status verification, and iirc server settings updates. yes. none of them are ‘absolutely required’ but they do exist to improve the reliability and secure operation of the program–and none are secret nasty spying telemetry. just turn those particular settings off as desired.

i nuked my post history and haven’t logged-in to ‘that site’ in about two years. there is one sub i lurk in occasionally that hasn’t gained any traction on the lemmy equivalent. that’s it other than the (relatively infrequent) pointer to a post from a web search for which no other alternative was listed.

there is mv3 version of ubo here:
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home

dunno how well it works on yt, though. i use dlp on a pc for the time or two a month i ‘need to’ look at a yt vid.

adguard’s free browser extension is also mv3 compliant (for chrome). i think the old adblockplus (disable ‘acceptable ads’ and ignore offer to ‘upgrade’ to a paid version) is, too.

more like the garden of weeds is spreading out of control. they want passkeys and oauth so they can become the third-party gatekeeper for everything.

the want them tied to bio because your fingertip or face are harder to share with others, harder to fake, easier to track multiple accounts with, and are tied to real people and identities that can be linked with other data their databases all to make their data and targeted adverts more profitable.

anything that comes in a box.

it wouldn’t happen during your term in office anyway.

2016, too. literally a convicted felon 34 times over from efforts to illegally influence that election.