Absolutely, I don’t deny that at all, but it is defined as separate from protestantism

I just tried to correct a misstake that some people may take seriously, personally, I don’t care.

Yep, their argument against game preservation is that some people may use the preserved games for shock recreation!

That is an idiotic argument.

None of the large churches in Scandinavia (Church of Denmark, Church of Norway, Church of Sweden, Church of Finland) are Protestant, they are Lutheran.

Swede here, so while I was born, babtized and confirmed in the lutheran church, I, like most Swedes, am in reality an atheist.

I am still part of the Swedish church and do pay church tax, I like seeing the old churches preserved in the Swedish landscape, and occasionally use their free toilets when I need to, so it feels only fair to contribute when I can.

Oh yes, I got my driving license almost exactly two years ago at 35, and one of the first things I did when I got my car was to binge a load of podcasts.

I still do this, and it is brilliant.

How long has this been going on, and how much money have they made?

The title was about this device, not about some possible future thing.

No, it doesn’t.

The crime he is accused of has been broadly condemned by the victims peers, the public however has remained supportive of his actions.

Getting rid of bugs?

I have noticed that from time to time, my Bose QC35 II may suddenly loose the clarity of the sound, a restart solves it but It is annoying, this could probably be a thing to be patched in a new firmware release.

Please tell me that you have nine cats…

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An app can be very useful, I use my Bose app to update my headphones’ firmware and to manage a few Bluetooth settings.

The app itself isn’t the issue, the requested permissions are.

I am an IT guy and let’s run through the permissions and see what makes sense…

1. What device are you using? - Fair, this helps Nothing to develop their headphones for the devices that uses them.
2. Device ID - purely used for marketing, can be skipped.
3. IP adress - more marketing shit, this can be skipped.
4. Usage information, product interaction - Fair, this helps Nothing to develop new headphones with feature people actually use.
5. Performance, diagnostic and crash data - Fair
6. Browsing history - Nope, the only way this could be fair is if they want data about webbased services you use, but that is not fair to get all your browsing history just to find this.
7. Location information - What? NO!
8. Information about interactions with our offerings - Meh, fair, tap an ad and get logged, sure.
9. Where available, products may use GPS, IP and other tech to determine your aproximate location - What part of “NO!” don’t you understand.
10. Headphone indicator - yeah, fine.

What I truly hate about these is that they are basically an all/nothing deal, you have to press the button or mark the checkbox to set $EULA_AGREE = $true for the app to work, you can’t just agree to parts of the EULA, you have to give them everything they ask for, preferably while looking lovingly into the camera of the phone so they can send the photo to their CEO.

The last part was obviously hyperbol, but that is how it feels from time to time…

I saw the thumbnail and that looked like yellow cake…

This would not have happened if company leaders implemented a “don’t be a dick” style of operation.

They would have made a bit less money, sure, but at the level they operate at, they are just working the highscore anyway, so earnings are effectively meaningless to them, their standard of living won’t increase much by exploiting their customer even further.

1984 is tame compared to what we have now.

The current situation with automated systems learning every little secret about pur lives, sometimes even before we know it ourselves, based on the trends on our searches, our messages, hell even just the shift in tone of our messages, our location history and more.

1984 is no longer the horrible future, it is the good old days when surveilence didn’t go as far.

If you need a truck get VW Transporter with an aluminium bed that you don’t need to worry about the paintwork when loading/unloading

That is different though, the Reddit hug of death as a concept doesn’t have any malicious intent.

Yeah, that is my take on it as well, and we should call that bump in traffic the “Lemmy hello”.