Yep, this is correct. It started as a “friendly fork” that added a few quality-of-life features that the official version didn’t have.

I know it can be done, so it wouldn’t shock me at all to find out that it does happen, but do you know of any manufacturers who have been proven to do this?

Keeping it offline some of the time isn’t effective against passive data collection unless you’re willing to take the inconvenient step of factory-resetting it each time you’re about to use it. Anything it collects it can just hold onto until it next gets the chance to upload.

Thanks for the tip, that’s almost as good as wringing them out.

I tried it, but then my sleeves got really, really wet.

You dirty root preserver.

“We made an extension system. You’re not really supposed to use it, though.”

At the time of death, or, uh, cumulatively?

BOth

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they ship with closed source software/packages/drivers/firmware/kernel blobs etc.most

Yes.

linux distros are the same trap that windows locks you into.

Oh, come on.

Panominism.

(edit: I made this up, probably.)

Yep, and in the morning as well.

I don’t disagree with you at all, but if I still had PC gamer friends and they were playing stuff like this, i might have a tough choice to make… even if it is

a god damned video game

Imagine trying to use these with a charging cable attached.

Now every object is stacked in an extremely tall tower, but at least they’re alphabetized.

BaByQ (sorry).

CD-ROM was turning

We didn’t start the fire

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