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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

I downvoted because of the snark in first paragraph.

Ron DeSantis vetoes millions in arts grants to defund “sexual” theater festivals in c/news@lemmy.world

Evanston ranked choice voting ordinance passes, hopes to push county clerk’s office in c/news@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

They're in the same county, but that doesn't mean Evanston politics impacts Chicago at all. Cook county politics have almost nothing to do with city politics, for both Chicago and Evanston.

People want 'dumbphones'. Will companies make them? in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] PugEnjoyer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mostly just want a phone that doesn't want to sell me on new ways to use my phone that I don't already do. I don't want a phone that's constantly trying to get me to use voice search, or try out some AI feature, or a search engine, etc. I have a newer Samsung tablet, and by default holding the power button turned on voice search instead of the power off menu? I fucking hate that shit, it was thankfully changeable but it was annoying that I had to change it back. I literally never use voice search. I fucking hate talking to computers, I'm not talking to a machine unless it's actually capable of feeling offended if I don't