Aaaaaaand (deep breath)

Bullshit

Idiot magnet deployed, sir!

I Sincerely hope you logged back in to outlook.com after to reject all permissions and tear out your data/accounts

Carlin’s giving a thumbs up from his grave

Sounds like a “you” problem, like you have a VPN connected.

The SMART thing to do is to buy a DUMB TV. Pay a little more and get a real TV- you know. A display, with speakers and HDMI inputs. Nothing else.

What a fucking pathetic flex

When they’re unwanted, on the network 500 ft away, you’d like your laptop to install those drivers?

11 now basically ARP scans any network you join, adds things like HP printers found on the LAN to Device Manager, as"unknown device" in some situations, likely auto installing drivers in others.

Can’t think of a better example of malware.

Stay in school and don’t use Windows.

It also gave those trash people the feeling of “look I’m not alone” and amplified all of it. At least before people were worried about being seen as a fuckwit.

I for one celebrate the inevitable crash/death of all this social media. It’s turned normal people into unacceptable drooling trash. That is if you’re able to ignore the data collection and use of it, in which case it turned the whole internet into a dumpster fire as well.

Maybe I’m misremembering when the old 4100 series dropped, but it was the last of the really great monsters they built.

Horseshit. Don’t piss on my head and tell me it’s raining.

Edit: this is more horseshit like the “room temperature superconductor” that was instantly debunked as a horseshit scheme recently.

Sound pressure waves cannot distort spacetime

No argument there. Right now the realistic choices are standard Android, standard Apple, or borderline broken/fringe products. Nothing “good” yet.

They do not, at least at this moment in time. Not even close. Not even in the same solar system.

Have no experience with Epson outside of 1 complete trash-teir $50 inket, which was hot garbage which of course it was- sorry.

I mean- sort of right, if you’re using un-googled, but I bet you’re not.

Outside of Arch or LFS nobody needs a guide unless they don’t know how to make a bootable USB these days.

Easier to install Linux than Windows.

15 years ago HP was among the best in the business. They made workhorse products that did millions of pages (and those old models continue to)

Today HP is a malware and telemetry company who won’t let the average consumer use their printer without a logged-in HP account slurping telemetry about every aspect of their lives. Any consumer who buys a printer with the letter “e” in the model number is paying money to be spied on. Anyone who buys a non-“e” model is still doing so, but in a less VISUALLY obvious, and obnoxious way.

This is not random assumption. I’m a tech. Anyone who buys an HP Printer today and asks me to install them gets a fast education on why they shouldn’t cut the packing tape on that box.

Buy Brother.

Everything is exploited. Shady fraudsters and “hackers” know what’s good and why, and that’s why they tend to use them.

wondering if we can even survive as a society

I took a bit of liberty with that quote. Privacy or no privacy, humanity is absolutely fucked.