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That word is fine, but not the one I meant. You got the meaning though.

Now about your relationship with Macrohard…

I have used Google until a few years ago. I have used their OSs, I have used their search, told it things that I would not tell a human. My main social media was always Youtube. My work uses Google products. We use Google Workspace, Angular, Google’s cloud service, basically anything that is not device specific is in some way related to Alphabet. Yet I only access my work account over Tor when I can and I do not install company software on my phone (With the exception of one 2fa code, which might change with the aid of a hardware key). I run Qubes os to have full control of the things that happen on my device. When I use Google Meet, I quickly give the vm that my browser runs on the permission to use my mic and if I feel generous my webcam. Meeting finished? Permission revoked. Nobody at my work has ever said a negative word, in fact most people find the way I work fascinating, which allows me to share this way with them. It may seem like you can’t control this, or that it’s gotten out of hand, but that is not true. You just have to start and don’t stop going. It’s not terribly hard either, it just takes quite some reading and some actions. I believe that in a years time most people in priviledged countries are able to cross most of the bIg CoRp SpYwArE out of their lifes. In fact, I have seen and helped dozens do so and the longest it took someone to get a more private life this way was about 8 months. That person was not great with technology (I hate IT support so much I could cry).

The one benefit that I have noticed the most is related to targeted ads, no surprise there. It goes ridiculously deep. I always thought that I am impervious to ads and, well, there was some truth to that. When Google showed me ads, I either disregarded them, or they were just not catered to me, because “I tricked the system”. Well, bullshit. I’ve noticed that since I use Piped instead of Youtube, the videos I get recommending products I am interested in are far less frequent. They made me believe that I had hair loss and I bought vitamins for my hair. I am 19. I have a full head of hair.

Like all things in life, digital privacy is an area one can improve on. I have found living like this to improve my mental health. I am no longer kept in a never ending loop of advertisements and algorithms that feed me shit. As a result, I have gotten vastly more productive. I have lost interest in most of my expensive hobbies. By the time that I got out of this never ending loop of crap, my mind has started to wander again and I no longer have a problem with ADHD (it’s still there, but it doesn’t cause issues in my daily life). This might seem unintuitive, but I am just much more relaxed amd focused because if the lack of mentsl pressure. Being caught infused by so much content numbs most people. Ever looked at a person that blankly stares at their screen? Well, you are likely no different right now. My father has recently told me about a study where they compared looking at screens to a trance like state. When we look at something in the real world, our eyes move a lot. Evne if we focus on something. When we are under a trance, our eyes do not move. We blankly stare at what we are looking at. Sounds familiar? What I mean to say is not that they are manipulating you through trance, it is simply a very similar action. I don’t think I need to tell you how much one can be influenced simply by the text they read on their screen. There are alternatives to the tools you use for your work. Use them. It will not mean the end of your career. And if you seriously can not find any alternative, cross them out of your private life anyways. That’s what privacy is about anyways. Use a free Proton Mail instead of a GMail or Outlook. Buy Minecraft, but never use your acoount to play. Play with an offline account and, while you’re at it, use a mod that disables telemetry. Yes, Microsoft tracks you in Minecraft. How else did you think they could monitor chats? They store them too, so be careful what yiu want to share, as you do not only share with players.

Do yourself a favour. Keep your mind clean. If a random teen did it, you can do it. And I am by far not the only one.

Trusting Microsoft automatically means trusting them with your data. Since the people on Lemmy are often good at IT, they understand what it means to trust Microsoft with your data. Most will likely try to avoid Microsoft. I myself do not use my Minecraft account anymore to play.

Besides, they are trying to push Bedrock. They won’t quite yet kill Java, but that is likely more because of the (missing word cuz I can’t english) it gives Minecraft as a whole. Notice, that this may change. Java already has an incredibly small user base compared to Bedrock.

Ladies and gentlemen.

✨Wolf army✨

Thank you.

Steve in a boat

Sorry, not interested. Google for “switch names between Minecraft accounts” or something like and “switch Microsoft email/account of Minecraft account”.

You can switch the Minecraft accounts’ names around and then you have it on your main account again

Well your first definition is opinion based so all good. The second one is imprecise, as a setting is an adjustment and not out of the range of vanilla Minecraft. Texture packs and data packs are often considered vanilla as well, so no “adjustments” at all is indeed a little hard.

The definition of vanilla software makes it clear that only unmodified software, in this case Minecraft, is considered vanilla. The word vanilla is choosen for this to represent the kind of standard taste (vanilla ice cream is often viewed as basic lmao). Technically, resource packs do not alter the codebase of minecraft and neither do data packs. All they do is provide some data that the game uses to run.

Here is where it gets complicated sometimes though. As you could have probably guessed, using mods is not vanilla. That is, because the code of Minecraft gets extended or injected. It is no longer unmodified. However, data packs can sometimes be structured code-like and can be used to execute functions. This is problematic, because although the source code of Minecraft is still the same, that code could load in other code from some data pack and execute it, essentially giving an effect also achievable by changing Minecraft’s source code. It’s similar with resource packs, although not nearly to the same extend.

So while generally an unmodified piece of software is called “vanilla”, Minecraft itself kind of blends what that means exactly. Minecraft out of the box would be considered vanilla.

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Silly you, they’re not fair to people! They’re fair to their shareholders.

I would, but sadly the security hardware just isn’t there. Calyx works though!

Yes absolutely, it’s still financially easier to go to a country that values citizens and has high population density.

Yeesh, that’s tough.

If you can’t go to canada choose one of the nordic countries or most of europe. Alot cheaper to start there. Good luck king

Well to truthfully answer your question, ignoring your apparent frustration, Linux is not an operating system for the faint hearted. It is often highly technical and community driven. As a result, it can also be quite hard or just frustrating to use (for some users).

Saving a file in GIMP is basically saving the workspace. Elements that you create inside of GIMP get saved as individually. Exporting the file will let you get an actual image file (like a png or jpg or bitmap what have you), as is it that way with most pieces of software on most operating systems. Export almost always means “Gimme the end result”. Like in 3d modeling software, where at export you can choose if it’s an stl or whatnot and when saving, you save the actual workspace.

As for your screen recording tool, I don’t know as I don’t use it. But it is likely that it has a config as almost everything does in Linux and that the imaging format can be changed there permanently. If it does not have such a config I’d ditch it for something else tbh.

Good bot

Man am I happy not to live in murica