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  • With tech it’s about convenience imo. I am privacy-concious, trying to avoid services like google, but a game’s EULA? scrolls to the bottom Accepted. Do Russians mine bitcoins on my machine? Is Unity surveilling me? Who knows.

    Then of course these brands put a lot of effort into strengthening consumer loyalty. Make their stores a nice place to be, offer plans especially to minors, so they get used to their products and eco-systems early on. For example Google’s ChromeOS laptops in schools. They are cheap and… well… are cheap.

    But overall, I think consumers do not realize what they are buying because many buy impulsively, or simply don’t know or care about the impact of their purchases. And to some degree, who can blame them? Who has the energy to sort through anything in the grocery store and determine which products are produced through slavery, animal cruelty, stealing the local population’s water, aren’t sourced locally etc. Because at that point, there’s probably nothing left.





  • Kinda surprised I haven’t seen it here: Die Känguru-Chroniken by Marc-Uwe Kling. It’s about a Kleinkünstler (argh!) living together with a communist kangaroo. They get up to all kind of nonsense whilst the book satirical looks at german culture and politics. It’s quite popular. The sentences are often pretty short and straight to the point as are the chapters, so you can pace it quite well. If you like the style of the books and would like to practice your listening comprehension, I can also recommend the audio book, read by the author himself. His voice-acting takes it to a whole new level.






  • I don’t have the know how to talk about safety and privacy, but here are some caveats.

    I think you have to use their client and can’t add your adress to 3rd party clients like thunderbird. Their client is however nice to work with.

    If you forgot your password, the only way to change it is by using a key that is given to you after account creation. Keep it safe! Check for spelling errors If you lost the note or it’s not in you passwordmanager or whatever you use, your account is not recoverable. Their support can’t help you reset your pw.

    Other than that they make email encryption pretty easy with a checkbox right under the recipient in the email editor.

    Another handy feature are the aliases. (Payed feature) You can set up some email adresses for certain purposes, and filter their traffic into different inboxes quite easily. If one of them.get’s compromised, deactivate and move in. Your master adress is probably still usable.

    What I do not like is the fact that paying customers get support first.



  • KokusnussRittertoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world*Permanently Deleted*
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    I think hybrid is the way to go. You won’t connect with your peers online the way you do irl, and I it’s healthy to leave home from time to time. I also work better in a dedicated office space versus at home.

    But as a student in an IT related field: God do I hate the uni pcs. They. would. not. run. unity. once. because of some obscure bug with my user profile and I had to waste my lecturers and my time switching users, trying to install the right version every single lesson. For two semesters I could not parttake. On my own PC at home I could have fixed that within minutes because admin rights and decent internet. Heck, I even asked the IT department if I could have admin rights which they denied, quite understadably. Sorry this turned a bit into a rant.

    But cutting commute time and getting up shortly before lecture sure is nice :3