and yet you live in a society!

that changes it for all programs. or did you mean that?

well, whatever. if you don’t want I won’t force it. truth be told there are a few neglected kde apps, but I have never seen that per-app scroll speed setting. wouldn’t be surprised if its an addon.

everything you said so far was screaming that you did not try plasma 6, but not even plasma 5, but finally this made it clear. you should try it sometime, it changed a lot!

how do you only change that for dolphin?

I don’t want to defend specifically best buy, but that’s how amazon kills competition.

well Instagram is serious about ratelimits

thats possible apparently: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/23840511

I have never heard anyone refer to TV as social media, I have always heard it in context with facebook, twitter and co.

a better objection, which makes me uncertain whether lemmy is social media, is that this is a pseudonymous forum where its not common for users to become friends or know each other, and discussion is not around a specific news site or a specific person, but around specific topics

their leaders need to be put into the trash compactor for once, where they belong.

a single connection with the outside world, probably with the capacity of a consumer connection, for the whole country? that’s too little even for just a single city. no one would be able to use it without some kind of time sharing or other access control

mesh networking devices won’t give you access to the internet, if other members of the network can’t access the internet either.

its not because they are adamant about OSS, but because the H.264 and H.265 codecs have software patents that require distributors paying a license fee. the situation is a bit unclear, that’s why some distros choose to distribute these drivers. Besides fedora, opensuse and others too do not distribute these drivers.

but flatpak versions of software will get downloaded along with these drivers, and that will work on any distro, because flathub decided they can distribute these drivers. bit of a courageous move, but I guess they know what they are doing.

and that’s why I’m holding my face when people say ublock lite on chrome is just as good… no, it fucking isn’t. not because of gimmicks like this but because it does many things to protect your privacy which you don’t see.

that’s a link for chrome. 4 upvotes…

he stepped down a while ago

some users solve that with keyword filters, but be careful not to block too broadly

except that the new subscription costs more, and has AI features. now the line did go up, and investors can be told that people want AI

neighbors, just visually seeing him with their eyes

sane neighbors won’t take notes if you, they won’t build a profile of you that can meaningfully be used for nefarious purposes.

mobile operator via their 5G/4G towers

5G, yes, but how accurate is 4G for that purpose? 4G transmitters are not placed as densely as 5G, and the frequency range it uses also makes it less suitable for that, as I know.

for that you can limit your phone to 4G, it may even save you power. and you always have the choice to put your phone to airplane mode. if you find it useful and you are a little determined, you could even automate it with tasker.

mobile OS via their positioning data

you can choose a mobile OS that doesn’t do that. for now…

• WiFi hotspots

• ISP via WiFi hotspots

you mean by your MAC address, when your phone is scanning? better android roms randomize that too, maybe some phones do that on stock OS too.

any app with geolocation tracking and any of their commercial partners purchasing that information

you can win a lot by not installing any app a shop wants you to have. they are taking advantage of the gullibility of the average person. lots of those bait apps are just a website anyway, and if you use them in a browser, they have access ro much fewer things.

but you are talking about apps with location tracking. which ones you mean? I only allow that permission for apps that I trust. on modern android, you can can give only approximate location, which is somewhat better.

connected devices via BT scanning potentially sending back data to their manufacturer, assuming most are connected

I don’t get this one. your devices, or those of others? BLE 5 has MAC address randomization

governments with abilities to get information from ISP, mobile operators, mobile OS maintainers

the government can barge in my door. does that mean I shouldn’t keep data brokers out of my life? to me it doesn’t. I think we already tackled network operators and OS maintainers too.

So… the question IMHO is : is there are NEW data with or without the camera network? I’d argue marginally more.

yes, there is, I think

all IoT devices can if they have any wifi functionality. they can even see the MAC addresses of the devices connecting to these wifi networks. if some of these devices are set to use their original MAC address instead of the randomized address on a network, IoT devices in signal range can see that too.