Privacy

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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
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I didn't realize my LG TV was spying on me until I turned off this setting (www.pocket-lint.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by greenbelt@lemy.lol to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Smart TVs with an internet connection: Lets grab screenshots and send them to cooperate analysis advertisement department.

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[–] sobchak@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago

I've done this in the past with Raspbian and the official Steam client, and set up Steam to launch in Big Picture mode, and used an X-Box controller to control it. Problem was my PC was old, so games would peg my CPU and give me bad latency due to poor encoding performance on the PC side.