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because you're not the client.

advertisers are.

you use adblocker. you're persona non grata to begin with. your purchases are not mapped back, that's why you keep seeing the stuff you just bought. for them, you are top of the funnel still. AdBlockers work! (20yrs in adtech)

for music, you're also irrelevant. you're old. music industry doesn't care about 25+ finding new music. they spend all their effort on keeping teenagers in a comfortable bubble to mine them for music purchases and shows. people under 25 spend pretty much all the money record labels make.

anyway, the system works and they do know everything about you. but your goals and desires are completely irrelevant to everyone involved money changing hands.

i bet they move most of their inventory with sales. there's only enough people shelling 799 for a bathroom scale

today you can use a WhatsApp call. or meet/teams/zoom...

they should have mentioned leap day instead. or leap month! if we're going for arbitrary long time period predictions, why stop in some 70k years only?

wow. 500h of sokoban and the tired trope finding audio diaries of people who couldn't possible have been in the area, telling an overly convoluted story and opening up more than in a drug induced therapy session.

gentoo's emerge is awesome. I keep a gentoo vm just to compile firefox, because it is impossible any other way. even though i don't use gentoo overall.

the comments trying to defens chrome (and old OBS) are completely corporate shills or missing the point. yeah obs at first did that because they had to, since it was such a small and niche project the devs had no pull upstream. after distros did all the unbundling job and helped them move patches upstream now every software benefit from those libraries fixes.

Google took chromium et al from open source and actively moved in the wrong direction, while having all the pull and influence like no open source project will ever have! its malice and/or incompetence. if you don't see that you're either shillings or lying to yourself. or have no knowledge of what open source is about.

i mean, you already proved to them you're the kind of people who pay a grand for a smart scale :)

you have no idea how SLOW banks move. And how little say the tech teams have there.

The companies selling you the devices make 1/3 (appl) to 3/4 (alphabet) of their entire revenue on Advertising.

Owning the indentity layer ensures they get fully addressable ads, which is the difference of $12 per impression instead of $.0001 per thousand impressions. But nobody is ready for this conversation.

completely missed the point, sorry.

Pixels (barelly) running a binary-blob-heavy port of android is far from what is being discussed here. In fact, that is intended as a misdirection and you fell for it by bringing it in here.

I wish their deep tech teams moved as fast as the privacy violating ones.

some small company licensed the blackberry brand and sold really good devices with physical keyboard. They had support up until 2 or 3 years ago. Gone now.

> Very sad how it was allowed to happen so easily.

says everyone, using chrome. sigh.

the people deciding this are the ones selling the devices

It would be a wild defense strategy to make the point that "apple is bad at locking doors for ex-employees" (the argument to save the employee) to save them from hiring one of those ex-employers just to use his key.

Ecclesiastes 1:1~11 (where that title is from) talks about futility, using only verses that are hopeful. (but that is lost on newer translations because the language was simplified. see legacy standard or Brenton's Septuagint for the effect)

his magnum opus Explode Eath and most of humanity, because of bureocracy apathy, in the first 10 pages. ...Oh I see now. nvm.

on KDE5-6, ironically, to have high-contrast windows and square borders, one must use something written because the author wanted round corners on older versions of kde :)

https://github.com/matinlotfali/KDE-Rounded-Corners

"piping everything to sudo bash makes a home server easier and fun"

The only thing worth saving from windows8-10 is the windows border. it is a huge usability win. Clear borders. square (so it's also fast). clear colors showing which window has focus. It's also funny this show up now a day after the top post was the osx windows border radius fiasco.

yet no linux WM has a decent windows8-10 window border clone.

KDE used to but since the rewrite of the theme from kde5+ they not only killed it, but also removed the option to have sane window border color to show focus. Now it's "accent color" which should be non contrast because they will force that same color on toolbars and such, just like all the bad ideas from office-ribbon era.