Homo Homini Lupus Est
Don’t exaggerate that badly you piece of s…wait a second, let me check. Oh fuck. I haven’t checked prices since I upgraded my main server and main gaming rig. I would now have to pay like 5000 more. After just checking some main components. But hey, the tower probably is still okay…
Fuck. This. Shit.
Me too…although it’s a tough challenge to restrain myself. See you in two years. Or three, then it’s 100% and full of mods 😁
Ooooooh. Yes. That might be it.
Jeez. An apple-infested, AI-powered bed with cloud-acces that monitors your most private moments and shares them with the world? And that also costs money not pays you?
But when I’d ask them if I could just sit there and watch them sleep, suddenly I am the weird one?
As if chrome users would give a fuck. I mean, they use chrome and probably all else that is google.
Never bothered with solar. Tbh the only benefit I see there is integrating it into the smart-home 😁
No fans would be great, but it’s not just the PC that makes noise. It’s the switches and NASs and UPSs…
I probably vape even less. But also rarely, so I’m not a measure for anything 😁
If you put it that way…kinda 😬
We’re (krauts) allowed to do that too now. But a friend does, so I don’t need to. I would suck at it anyway. Last time i did that was 30yrs ago. Planted A SHITTON, and when i reaped it, I had like 5 fat ass ikea-bags full of tasty weed. Had them dry in a room I never use and…forgot them. All went bad. I should stick to non-living things like servers :-)
I was on very low-powered too. As I’m a damn cheapskate. But then the performance started to piss me off and i went nuts. Plus a fat gpu for LLAMACPP for the smarthome. Also I’m gaming A LOT. So it adds up :)
Oh no, I host everything myself, I would never use a cloud-based anything. A pi does a lot, but it wouldn’t do for all my stuff. Jellyfin, AgentDVR, PaperlessNGX and especially LLamaCPP do need a lot of ressources :)
Oh. Okay. That comes close to 0. Mine runs 24/7, just because it would take too long to power down and up all machines, VMS, switches etc 😁
0? My energy company says I’m using power equivalent to a family of eight. And it’s just wifey , the servers and me. I had cops here asking if I grow weed 😁
So unless you steal power, it surely isn’t close to 0 😁
Got that fart sparkled? :-)
It surely just isn’t this one deamon. Despite “mediaanalysisd” sounds highly threatening to me. Especially if you aren’t allowed to disable it. How i would hate that on MY computer. Surely better than windows, where 5198231 services do that of which you can only disable 99%.
If you use ANY service in the apple cloud though, your data is, by definition, unsafe. If you don’t, you’re probably not the run-of-the-mill-apple-user that knows which service does what.
but if your threat model includes American software companies & oligarchs
Mine surely does. Especially US-american.
On purely semantics, yeah sure. it’s no spyware by definition. But neither is windows or android.
BUT everything closed-source, especially the OSs, send data back home. Basically they all do it openly, if you would bother to read the TOS. So unless you tinker, data gets send home. And be it only for updates, or “malware detection” or whatever else. And you have no idea WHAT exactly those data contain. Or where exactly it goes, or what is done with it henceforth.
So yes, someone could choke on the word “spyware”, as this is done secretly and in the shadow. Usually. And maybe I came across provocative, but…well. Why not, it’s a topic so often just ignored. I don’t care for the votes, I just would wish people would say WHY they seemingly disagree instead of just leaving a worthless vote. As you said, more a point of discussion.
It’s not always about if one COULD. I could, but I’m also a cheapskate. And these prices are neither fair nor fun. It’s just greed. So fuck them until prices go down again. If ever.
I will only upgrade if the current things catches fire or eats my food.