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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files (mander.xyz)
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[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It blows my mind people in USA don't already know everything is corrupted and has been corrupted and that they are just pawns in bigger people's games.

People have been trying to leak all this for decades and they purposely get labeled crazy, pressured to suicide, or buckle and join them for fear of their life. And all the truth gets laced with brain dead marketed conspiracy placed by the people that profit from the evil so that people won't take it seriously.

It's psychological warfare. And it's not even just USA... We let these nations and businesses become the owners of humanity. We barely, if even that, live natural honorable lives by default anymore as long as you are born into these nations.

...and that's just talking about the legal and gray area stuff...

[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same as good old Windows 2000 without all the crap and spyware: https://linuxmint.com/

Linux was already a decent alternative 20 years ago.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It really depended on what you were doing, and how comfortable you were in the terminal. Even using Ubuntu you still had some terminal use required, and for gaming it just was not there yet at all. It's definitely been a viable alternative for standard users for at least 7 years, and gaming got good about 5 years ago.

Source: Gamer who started dual-booting Linux 15 years ago, and stopped dual-booting Windows about 4 years ago.

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 5 points 1 day ago

Wifi drivers and graphics back in the day 😭

[–] Randynippletwist@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bazzite and nobara comes with steam preloaded. I have zero regrets ditching wins.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, this was saying how it was back when I first started using Ubuntu back in the Lucid Lynx days. We've come a long way, and I couldn't be happier

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 8 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Set up a pi-hole, cast all requests going to those domains down into tartarus. Then we can go after the data centers.

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Run Linux on your desktop. Unless you NEED Adobe or Fortnite, in which case, you deserve to be spied on.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Nobody deserves to be spied on. Get a grip.

[–] humanamerican@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

It was hyperbole to make a point. If you don't care enough about your privacy to pick a different game or learn a different set of creativity tools, maybe you don't really care about privacy.

[–] PiraHxCx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

if you set up a pi-hole you aren't sending any data to Microsoft because you are using Linux though... unless you are talking about server in which there are devices running Windows...

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You can totally set it up so that pi-hole is your dhcp/dns server and it will catch any device on your network, even phones and windows machines. I block 60% of the shit coming out of my network.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Some shit bag devices (Chromecast were the first I knew about) started hardcoding DNS server addresses and/or using DoH. There are ways to capture those too, I believe.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago

I think the forum post I linked in this thread covers that. But honestly fuck those devices. Phantasy Star Online does this with the executable, and editing the server string fucks up the offsets if it isn't the exact same length as Sega's original server. Pain in the ass.

[–] klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol 3 points 1 day ago

Last I checked mine was at almost 80%. For a while there I was getting a shitton of traffic from outside that was getting blocked, which lead to a 99% reject rate, though.

Not sure what's going on with my new room mate's internet, but yeah that was a wild month of trying to get that all under control

[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Could you block any outgoing from any windows machine without knowing it's IP? That could be fun.

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

At a firewall level, no. Any process that will get you OS info would also allow you to get the IP.

Edit: Unless you're doing it before a DHCP lease assignment, but I'm pretty sure you can't use the MAC to gain any system info without software being installed on the computer.

But if the purpose is to block windows from ever communicating on the network, what you could do is assign an IP for a subnet that can't talk out, get the OS, then assign a new IP on your main network for non-windows devices.

[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not sure. Maybe. It would depend if all clients connected automatically use the default profile or if they have to be added to the clients list (in which case you would need IP). I haven't looked into that actually.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why do you think they targeted him?

Before Epstein the ring was run by Maxwell's dad for the Israeli government, Epstein just inherited it.

There's a reason Israel is the country everyone turns to for surveillance, they're blackmailing the people making the tech.

Like, it's easy to get hung up on the raping of children, but the real sick shit is what they were blackmailing them to do so the evidence wouldn't get released. What do you think these people wouldn't agree to just to keep the lid on what's in the files?

[–] Whostosay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

We need to get it over with and burn it the fuck down. You can't unspoil this 30 year old milk.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 day ago

Other than Bill Gates?

[–] humble_boatsman@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Is it Ellison? I bet its Ellison

[–] albbi@piefed.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Might be that guy who founded that Virgin company. Why did we let that slip?