Seriously.

It sounds like a fucking nightmare. Imagine working on something for days and it refuses to work cause you accidentally capitalized 1 file name and dont notice it?

That sounds like the kind of shit they’d do in tech hell.

I wish my old angelfire site was still around…

welcome to linux.

I miss when games were physical and I actually owned them.

I miss being able to hold them in my hands, to examine the cover, to read the back.

I miss being able to crack it open and smell that plasti-ink-chemical smell that had been sealed inside from the factory with the shrinkwrap.

and yes, I absolutely miss having manuals to read.

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100282/facebook-partner-admits-smartphone-microphones-listen-to-people-talk-serve-better-ads/index.html

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100282/facebook-partner-admits-smartphone-microphones-listen-to-people-talk-serve-better-ads/index.html

They do listen.

i use a playstation 3 controller without issue.

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

You don’t even have to. Most the time they’ll take whatever innocent topic/comment at had and somehow twist it into Russia/China Good, America/West bad.

Getting people to agree to a mistaken, misinformed premise does not mean you are right.

Lest you also believe the world is a flat pancake and other various nuttery.

Also, you clearly know what the difference is, since your list of examples is nothing but social media.

Again. Stop trying to make everything social media. You have all the social media you need to fuel your need for attention, as is. You don’t need to make non-social media into more of it.

Engaging with people does not make it a social media platform.

A bathroom wall covered in graffiti messages is not social media.

an email is not social media.

text messages are not social media.

a brick with “Fuck You” written on it, thrown through a window, is not social media.

A restaurant you go to with friends is not social media.

A webforum is not social media.

IMs are not social media.

Just because you socialize on/in/at something, does not magically make it social media… Because Social Media is a very specific type of thing.

Stop trying to make everything into freaking facebook.

Its a webforum.

Webforums are not social media.

doesnt that happen every time it rains in texas?

Factorio?

Don’t underestimate how much resentment and anger a privileged people can develop when they don’t get every. single. thing. they think they are entitled to.

This post really left an impact on my thought process.

If they are into gaming, Nobara is basically the best, no headache choice.

Literally addressed all that.

They are totally listening.

I will use my new roof as an example.

back in February I needed a new roof. I have done zero internet searches for roofs, or related subjects (no searches about materials, contractors, regulations, aesthetics, nothing). My home also has no listening devices, so no Alexas or Google Homes, or any voice activated or automation of any kind. I dont even have any accounts on my phone, google or otherwise. My phone is for nothing but phone calls and text messages, with almost all the google and other stuff that can be disabled, being disabled to make it all the more creepy.

In my home, the first time I mentioned it to anyone aloud was to my grandmother, talking about the issues with the roof and how I’ll have to be getting a new one soon.

The only device in the room was my phone. on the kitchen table, infront of me.

I did no searches for roofs or anything roof related afterwards, on any device. Nor did my grandmother (she half blind and can barely answer her phone, much less start doing internet searches about shit)

By the end of the day I had gotten 12 spam mails about roof contractors/new roofs/etc, where I had never received any prior (searched my emails to prove this fact, they go back years)

And every day since, I have gotten between 5-25 new spam mails, pushing every kind of roof related spam you can imagine. Despite the roof long since being done and over with.

And thats not the first time its happened either, Its just what made me start taking notice. It has happened several more times now that I’ve been taking notice of it.

The phone is listening, and I don’t care who says otherwise.

Coincidences can happen, but multiple coincidences cease to be coincidences and start becoming a pattern of behavior and concern.

edit

THEY DO LISTEN https://www.tweaktown.com/news/100282/facebook-partner-admits-smartphone-microphones-listen-to-people-talk-serve-better-ads/index.html

I’m sure they were kept at the same tip top condition as the rest of the russian military complex’s equipment.