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For real, though, I’m building a Hal9000 system for my home built on top of Home Assistant and Esphome.
No wait, you’re telling me that mega-corporations don’t care about me getting good products and having sole ownership of my personal data?
B-but [sponsored tech-geek blog], [generic gaming-news outlet] and [irrelevant apple shill] only ever told me so! Are you implying they lie to me?
Realtalk I only use cracked win11 pro workstation and iPhone because of work, every telemetry possible disabled (god bless the EU).
Google a recent medical symptom - your smart watch already knows the gritty details
It’s always cancer.
Sore throat - cancer.
Back ache - cancer.
Tiredness, cough, loss of taste and/or smell - maybe COVID. But also, cancer.
On that matter, why is Norton antivirus so popular? I don’t remember being prompted to install one when installing Windows, yet I’ve seen a lot of people with it.
Back in the day, you were pushed hard to either put McAfee or Norton on your computer when you bought one from Dell, Compaq, etc. A lot of older people still think you need to do that so it’s still pretty popular.
I always used kaspersky which I stupidly downloaded from a torrent lol. Guess it worked? I’ll never know tho.
It protected our computer perfectly :)
Back in the day, Norton actually made some useful tools. They’ve been coasting on that 90s reputation for decades, though. It’s all unnecessary bloatware now.
You gave me flashbacks of the Peter Norton and John McAfee days!
It comes preinstalled in a bunch of laptops.
strange, most IT professionals will tell you the only thing you need is Windows Defender and an ability to think before clicking strange download buttons
Not strange, most executives will sign a deal where another company gives them money for every laptop they sell with that company’s product preinstalled.
beep boop “You’re wrist circumference is too wide and the tracker noticed no physical activities.”
