I mean, ChromeOS is immutable Gentoo, so yeah.

I’m glad someone got it. Also, I always wondered what a penguin car looks like.

Nah, that’s just ice cream.

You’re not wrong about it being a real effort, I doubt the cost of completely desoldering DDR5 chips and resoldering DDR4 chips is recovered in the used parts price unless they are doing this in high volume with professional, automated equipment.

As for the car analogy, DDR4 is almost as fast and efficient as DDR5 so it would be more like putting a Camaro engine in a Corvette and putting a custom engine cover on it to hide the fraud. Typical user won’t notice, but an enthusiast or expert will.

Doesn’t change the fact that this is severe overreach that any sane judge would slap them down for.

Hey, the Great Old Ones need access too. Don’t discriminate!

Yep, and there are leaner, better Linux distros as well. Void Linux outperforms all of the author’s picks on older hardware, and there are also the BSDs to consider. Hell, even MX Linux (based on antiX) would be better than anything Ubuntu based.

I wasn’t contradicting you, I was agreeing with you.

Cash is only “less convenient” for the banks and businesses that would prefer to track you. A cashless society is a society fully stripped of privacy, a society where poor people are guaranteed to stay poor, and where only the rich can afford privacy and security.

Oh weird, it didn’t do that to me before but trying it again now it does the same thing to me. Apologies for the snark.

It does you just have to click through to the source cited by Thom. Click the link halfway down the OSnews article, “Michael Tsai, quoting Mysk”, then in the resulting article click the link that says “Mysk”. That takes you to the Xitter post by Mysk with the screenshot and description (I ran it through Xcancel so as not to endure Xitter’s shitty site).

Clicking links is difficult, I get it. Here, I did that for you:

https://xcancel.com/mysk_co/status/2064401062224879888

Considering they are sending all of your iOS activity back to themselves without encryption, to track you for ad serving, yep.

https://www.osnews.com/story/145322/apple-adds-keylogger-to-ios-app-store-for-targeted-advertising-tied-to-your-account-and-unencrypted/

Sounds like a troll post

Your verbs are present tense and not past tense

I was clear in other comments that I was speaking of what I knew to be true at the time, therefore the tense was correct from my perspective. I was told that the situation changed about seven years ago, I acknowledged this and expressed happiness for current Plex users, and then came several different people piling on telling me I’m lying, I’m wrong, I’m misleading, even after I stated that my experience was ten years ago and I acknowledged that things had changed since then.

To be abundantly clear, from my point of view before I was corrected, the present tense was correct based on my experience. I acknowledged the corrections and was still accused of lying and misrepresenting. I just don’t get that. I don’t understand why immediately acknowledging and accepting and even expressing genuine happiness that the situation has changed leads to attacks from all sides. I don’t understand why any of you refuse to acknowledge that I was speaking of an experience a decade ago, you all insist that I’m trying to say that is how it is now, and I’m not fucking doing that at all.

This place takes itself way, way too seriously, in my opinion. I’m sorry for any toes I stepped on without even meaning to, and I won’t comment on the matter further.

I never misrepresented anything. I spoke of my experience, and when I was told the situation had changed I was clear in several comments that I was happy it is now better for current users. You are talking as if I am intentionally misleading people when it’s clear that I am not. Why are you doing that?

I’ll say it again: it was my experience at the time, ten years ago. There is no misinformation. Apparently the situation has changed for the better for Plex users and that’s great. But I’m not going to change what I said, because it was what I experienced; to do so would be misinformation.

And my experience was nearly ten years ago. I’m glad they updated the documentation. Thanks for the link!

Why would I lie? It was my experience at the time, if it has changed for the better since then, that’s great for Plex users.

Good to know, and it would have been nice if that support rep had just told me that ten years ago instead of inadvertently talking me into dropping the service altogether. Hell, it would have been nice if that was in the documentation, but obviously they have a vested interest in mining your data.

Still, for all of the reasons above and more, I’ll never use Plex again. I occasionally help a friend keep his Plex installation maintained and it’s just a shitty service compared to the more open options in my experience. I’ve told him about the better options but his sunk cost mindset (he paid the current lifetime fee) won’t let him migrate.