DCS for linux?

[unlikely_spider]

19 minutes ago, SharpeXB said:

Oh, this solves everything

[SharpeXB]

16 minutes ago, unlikely_spider said:

Oh, this solves everything

If you don’t trust this stuff you’d better ditch your phone too. It’s definitely spying on you. 

[unlikely_spider]

1 minute ago, SharpeXB said:

If you don’t trust this stuff you’d better ditch your phone too. It’s definitely spying on you. 

Once again - I appreciate the "just don't use technology then" response to any criticism of current privacy practices, but that type of reductive response would not get you very far in any professional or academic field. But then again this is just a message board, so it's pretty much the level of discourse expected here.

[Retnek]

https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Good round-up. It explains detailed how to keep your preferred level of distance.

 

[SharpeXB]

11 minutes ago, unlikely_spider said:

Once again - I appreciate the "just don't use technology then" response to any criticism of current privacy practices, but that type of reductive response would not get you very far in any professional or academic field. But then again this is just a message board, so it's pretty much the level of discourse expected here.

There are certainly privacy laws and policies in this regard. But when you say you don’t trust those then what other option do you have? Nobody is forcing you to have a smart phone or a PC. 

[unlikely_spider]

3 minutes ago, SharpeXB said:

There are certainly privacy laws and policies in this regard. But when you say you don’t trust those then what other option do you have? Nobody is forcing you to have a smart phone or a PC. 

Circulus in probando

[cfrag]

22 minutes ago, SharpeXB said:

There are certainly privacy laws and policies in this regard. But when you say you don’t trust those then what other option do you have? Nobody is forcing you to have a smart phone or a PC. 

We are already way off topic, so I'll just chime in with this: the USA have just become a textbook case of what can happen if a government simply disregards privacy laws and grabs private data. The damage is done, and the flimsy protection that "US laws" afforded their citizens evaporated over night. Here in Switzerland, the reaction is swift and decisive: new policies in most privacy-sensitive industries (read: banks, payment processors, etc.) now implement kill-switches for private data should something similar happen here. Privacy is very important in a world where we increasingly meet, work and purchase virtually, and identity theft is but one of the challenges. Win 11 is intrusive, and - worse - made by a company that resides in a country that many no longer regard as a judicative safe nor reliable haven. I fully understand when people are concerned. How they react is their own choice, ignoring the risk is certainly one way. There are others.

What this has to do with DCS is a mystery to me, so I just contributed to the problem without helping, I know  

[Hammer1-1]

3 hours ago, cfrag said:

We are already way off topic, so I'll just chime in with this: the USA have just become a textbook case of what can happen if a government simply disregards privacy laws and grabs private data. The damage is done, and the flimsy protection that "US laws" afforded their citizens evaporated over night. Here in Switzerland, the reaction is swift and decisive: new policies in most privacy-sensitive industries (read: banks, payment processors, etc.) now implement kill-switches for private data should something similar happen here. Privacy is very important in a world where we increasingly meet, work and purchase virtually, and identity theft is but one of the challenges. Win 11 is intrusive, and - worse - made by a company that resides in a country that many no longer regard as a judicative safe nor reliable haven. I fully understand when people are concerned. How they react is their own choice, ignoring the risk is certainly one way. There are others.

What this has to do with DCS is a mystery to me, so I just contributed to the problem without helping, I know  

The topic is to move to a different operating system thats less intrusive.  Why certain people cant figure out why people like their privacy is beyond me, its not like its up to them to figure out whats right for other people; some people just need to mind their own business which really bothers me as to the why he wont let it go. The answer isnt " give up on your computer and phone", the answer is "no more". Just because he's ok with it doesnt mean we all have to be ok with it. Its not like its the next step in moving towards a social credit score in a single world government....wait...it is?! Gee, wonder why people ARE so frustrated. Some people...just dont get it.

Edited March 21 by Hammer1-1

[Hiob]

Some people are beyond reasoning though. Arguing with them is futile. 

[Hiob]

14 hours ago, SharpeXB said:

A PC needs to do more than just play games though. 

And that makes windows a necessity? There is literally nothing that can't be done in Linux just the same. In fact, apart from some appliances that simply aren't released for Linux, a modern Linux distribution is a perfect replacement for windows, down to the User-Interface. (Minus the data-sniffing and ad distribution)

Edited March 21 by Hiob

[SharpeXB]

1 hour ago, Hiob said:

There is literally nothing that can't be done in Linux just the same. In fact, apart from some appliances that simply aren't released for Linux

The second sentence there just contradicted the first one. The vast majority of the programs a typical user would want on their PC aren’t available on Linux. So it’s a rather terrible choice for an OS on a personal machine. It doesn’t matter that it could technically do this, the fact that it has such a tiny market share means it’s never going to get to the same level as Windows in this regard. It’s a and dilemma. 

[BIGNEWY]

thread derailed. 

closed