I thought ambagious was a typo of ambiguous. New word day!

Right – all privacy-positive methods to employ, but not helpful for fingerprinting. In fact, some things can make you more susceptible to fingerprinting because they make you more unique (like using a custom OS). It’s all about your browser and what it chooses to send with HTTP requests, how it responds to queries for you device/browser specs (via Javacript). Your OS, system architecture, hardware details, browser type and plugins, etc combine to make a very unique profile tied to your device. It’s especially nefarious because all those bits are cross-referenced over all accounts and devices to make a global profile on you. Even if you’ve never used Facebook, you probably have a shadow profile. If you’ve ever logged into the same service or website account on your de-Googled GrapheneOS device as another machine that does have Google services tracking, then your new device is likely already tied to your identity.

Try this with different browsers – it tests the uniqueness of your device.

Pretty sure Graphene doesn’t do much about fingerprinting on its own, it’s nearly entirely up to the browser. They mention some of their plans to address that with Vanadium, but make no claims as to how effective it is now (at least on the features page).

What specifically are you disagreeing with? Bad games are bad largely due to design and monetization reasons, both of which developers don’t participate in deciding. But, they do witness all of the good decisions that get cut from the design. Buggy games are one thing you can partially attribute to developers, but saying Bethesda devs have a net negative credential without explaining is willfully obtuse and borderline troll behavior.

These two posts could not have lined up better:

The italics are a nice hint. Good Poe’s Law submission.

My friend who has never been in a long-term relationship wants to know what this means – how would you explain this agreement?

But following the surface of a sphere causes you to constantly change direction

A fellow opposum!

Mine is sate vs satiate

It’s the NYT Mini

This is frustrating to read because it kinda sounds like, “Just don’t be bothered by it, act like everyone expects you to and say the right thing. It’s not hard.” One reason people on the spectrum dwell on past interactions is precisely because they’re trying to work on making the future better without causing trouble – that’s the hard part when social norms or interactions are difficult to wrap your head around.

Thanks! I hadn’t gotten around to finding a GW replacement yet, super happy this came up!

Even if it were, it still has bag cloth surrounding it.

That’s a good point, though I’ll say you can play non-steam games on the steam deck (even switch emulation!) and upgrade some of the hardware yourself like the SSD, so there’s some wiggle to that particular lock. In any case, I hope you enjoy whatever your setup is, proprietary or otherwise.

It didn’t seem off-topic to me because the article for this post is about a console only allowing proprietary controllers, so they were suggesting an alternative setup in which that would not be an issue. I think that’s in keeping with the general theme of a lot of tech/gaming Lemmy instances following reddexit, i.e. don’t lock yourself into an ecosystem, “enshittification” bad, that kind of thing.

I think it’s valid to disagree with that – there are lots of reasons to prefer consoles; play whatever jollies your Roger. For me, this sort of thing isn’t an issue because I haven’t bought or used third-party controllers. Maybe one could be in support of this change because it could help prevent use of controllers with unfair functionality like macros or what-have-you.

Maybe the steam deck (or ROG ally) is a decent replacement for a console, when it’s docked it’s functionally the same, I haven’t tried it so I’m not sure. It’s such a PC thing to do suggesting anything other than PC gaming is abnormal, anyway. The point is there’s a lot of interesting things to discuss about it, so it’s a waste to focus on what they call normal or not, you know?

You claim satire but it reads like disproportionately pedantic rage. Even if you disagree, at least the person you’re replying made a good faith attempt to add something helpful to the post. Could you try explaining your point unsarcastically? It would probably generate much better discussion around the issue you care about. All this does is turn the comment thread into a flame war for no reason.

In case of a house fire, I’d only escape with two things: my cat and my .vimrc

Fundamental Attribution Error

It matters from a cause-and-effect standpoint, but you’re callously and self-righteously blaming their whole situation on it. That you stop trying to understand the situation at that point reveals that you’re using it as an excuse to blame peoples’ suffering exclusively on their personal choices to feel better about yourself. That completely ignores any circumstances, predatory draws, nonstandard brain chemistry, or other factors outside of their control and assume they had perfect, complete knowledge of the situation and consequences at the time – which is honestly silly.